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Senator Homer Ferguson's (Rep. Mich.) stab at the University and the Russian Research Center last June 24 belatedly brought a banner blast in the "Boston Post" yesterday...
According to Ferguson, in a hearing on Air Force expenditures before the Senate Appropriations Committee, the government's investment in the Center's current study of the Soviet System is "a form of insanity...
...Ferguson did not attack the Center for lack or quality of data. He stated in his overall condemnation of Air Force spending: "Harvard has been outstanding. Their professors have been outstanding. They now say they will not discharge a man who has been a communist and a teacher. And you go to that very institution to determine how the mind of the Communist works...
...think personally we are just becoming ridiculous," Ferguson continued, still not mentioning anything the Center has actually done or not done. "We are just so extravagant that it shows a form of insanity. I just cannot see it. I think it is one of the terrible examples of what the agencies are doing, to go to an institution, of all institutions Harvard, to find out a working model of Soviet thinking when they have criticized Congress for trying to get really at the roots of the thing under oath as to how a communist thinks...
...upper echelons of the Air Force have not agreed with Ferguson's "opinion." The Center is still a going concern, transmitting information to the government...