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...argument put forth is a wholesale revision of the popular image of the universities as paragons of virtue, beacons of principled opposition to McCarthyite bullying. Diamond demonstrates that Harvard and Yale secretly cooperated with and helped advance the anti-communist purges even while they were publicly trumpeting the rhetoric of academic freedom...
...Diamond writes that there was "a degree of cooperation between Harvard and the intelligence agencies in the making of faculty appointments that is surprising for what it reveals of the abdication of University autonomy...
...convincing, solidly constructed argument. Diamond relies on a hefty source base of FBI documents, some of which were obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. University records and memoranda also bolster Diamond's argument. There are 62 pages of footnotes. The source base might have been strengthened with more interviews, but many of the main figures in the book have died...
...Diamond's investigation of the universities during the 1945 to 1955 period touches on a fair number of personalities who have gone on to notoriety. For example, we see Henry A. Kissinger '50, as a Harvard junior professor, opening his colleagues' mail and informing to the FBI. And we see William F. Buckley Jr., as editor of the Yale Daily News, running errands for the FBI and the Yale administration...
Equally abhorrent, the FBI was not an intruder, but a welcome guest on campus in the eyes of top administrators. At both Harvard and Yale, high-level liaisons were charged with the specific task of coordinating relations with the FBI. Diamond says it was likely that then-Provost Paul H. Buck was the liaison at Harvard...