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Included in this wide array of research is work on the relationship between the FBI and Harvard, which Diamond believes was quite close on the basis of documents he has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. One such document- a memo from a Boston official to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover--reads: "It is noted that as a result of [half line deleted] on this date, arrangements have been completed for a most cooperative and understanding association between the Bureau and Harvard University...
...Diamond has been partially thwarted in his research by rules limiting access to university documents from the McCarthy period. He has been engaged in a running dispute with Harvard officials over the University's rule barring access to Corporation records for fifty years after their deposit...
...Diamond says, however, that he has no particular axe to grind with Harvard. The New York Review of Books article was the only one in which he discussed his own experiences in the McCarthy period...
What are the university-FBI relations like today? "It's hard to say," according to Diamond. "That information is very secret, and I've been having a hard time even finding out about relations 30 years...
...Sigmund Diamond is Giddings Professor of Sociology and Professor of History, Columbia University...