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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger's assistance to the FBI while at Harvard is also startling. Harvard faculty rarely volunteered information on their own to investigative officers; even at the height of the McCarthy era, contact with the bureau occurred only when FBI agents approached faculty members for routine security clearances...
...internal memorandum from the Boston FBI division to Washington headquarters indicates such was not the case with Kissinger. Sigmund Diamond, a Columbia University professor found the document while researching the relationship between colleges and the FBI before and during the McCarthy era. The document states that Kissinger voluntarily provided information to the FBI, information he obtained by opening the mail of a seminar participant without his knowledge. (Technically, Kissinger could be charged with tampering with the U.S. mail, but he does not seem to be panicking about that...
...always hoped to be and would probably have approved of Kissinger's decision to approach the FBI as the proper way to protect Harvard from potential communist encroachment. David Landau '72 writes in Kissinger: The Uses of Power, that even measured against the standard of the early McCarthy era, Elliot "was a violent Cold Warrior, one who would not tolerate the slightest deviation from the path of unrelenting struggle against the Stalinist Terror." Most Harvard faculty and administrators who knew him back then agree that if Kissinger consulted with anyone before notifying the FBI, Elliot would have been...
...nascent Bruce era is as different from the expired Hayes regime as the two men are different in appearance and temperament. Hayes is the epitome of the gravel-voiced, granite-jawed football fascist. Bruce is central casting's version of a small-town insurance agent: a paunchy, balding disciplinarian who softens his sternness with an open, gentle-eyed manner. "He looks like one of the Seven Dwarfs," says an old friend. The Ohio State team, riven by feuds among assistant coaches in recent years and demoralized by Hayes' abrupt departure, has welcomed the change. Says Sophomore Split...
...even the resilient Helms could not cope with the mounting pressures of the Nixon era. Communication between the President and the CIA became a problem. The National Security Council and the CIA, writes Powers, were "like ships passing in the night...