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...Development Advisory Service should keep its confidential memoranda out of public hands has gained little for those who wish to be better informed about that agency's widespread activities. The protest has subsided, and the documents remain private privilege. But what the episode has shown clearly is that DAS activities must not be assessed, nor can they be blindly defended, in connection with the free pass of knowledge which is commonly regarded as essential to the academic process...
...weeks ago, DAS officials announced to a group of SDS demonstrators that they would not release their internal reports on the grounds that such memoranda are generally the right of any self-respecting agency. "The same situation obtains for any organization in or outside Harvard, whether it be an undergraduate House, the Dean's office or an underground newspaper," a printed statement said. "If the authors knew that their reports and letters would be available to a wide audience, a sense of responsibility would require that they be less frank, comprehensive, and communicative." The DAS thus asked the rest...
That argument by itself is a miserable failure. Student organizations, Harvard personnel offices, and underground journals are not engaged firsthand in the manufacture of public policy. The DAS, on the other hand, conducts cabinet-level activity in five underdeveloped countries. Unless one adheres to the memoir theory of history, which deems it permissible for top-level government decisions to be made in secret only to have them surface years afterward in the form of personal remembrances, then it is difficult to regard the DAS' reticence with anything but skepticism or distrust...
...Bowie says, "Those who run the Center are Faculty members," implying by this that they are politically neutral. There are ten members of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the DAS. We have been able to get information about six of them. Robert Bowie was director of the Policy Planning Staff of the State Department, 1953-55, and AssistantSecretary of State for policy planning, 1955-57. He was a counselor to the Department of State, 1966-68. Hollis B. Chenery was Assistant Administrator of AID, 1962-65. He still works with AID, and since 1968 he has also been associated with...
Most of the above information comes from published documents. We suspect the activities of the Center will be even more clearly exposed when we can all see the Interim Reports. We call on the DAS to release these reports now. And we call on all students, Faculty and employees of the University to join in a campaign to shut the Center down...