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...following September, J.J. Gleason, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's New Haven office, wrote to Hoover. Subject: discussions between himself and FBI Assistant Director L.B. Nichols about the Fairfield story "which was derogatory to the Bureau." Gleason warned Hoover that he had received a call from a Yale Daily News reporter, tipping him off that the News planned to run a follow-up story, featuring an interview with Cohen. The post-doctoral student's "identity was known to the Bureau" (FBI-speak for a person who is on file with the FBI), Gleason made sure to note...
...Gleason added that he had called H.B. Fisher, the FBI Liaison Officer at Yale, and asked him to look into the matter. Fisher told Gleason that Yale administrators were attempting to "have the News story killed inasmuch as it was entirely inaccurate and would only tend to prolong the effects, if any, of the original article in The Harvard Crimson." He also noted that Margenau, the Physics professor, and Provost Furniss had officially denied the Crimson statements attributed to them...
Fisher apparently succeeded because the next FBI memo from Gleason noted that Buckley contacted him and said "he had changed his mind considerably about the matter and was now of the opinion that the articles appearing in The Harvard Crimson were vicious and insidious in addition to being journalistically poor." Buckley then wrote a letter, now part of an ever-expanding FBI file on The Crimson, to arrange a forum between the FBI and members of the Yale community to "outline to them the actual roll [sic] of the FBI in the state and community levels." Buckley offered himself...
...home with Picasso as he was with Pisanello. Thanks to his eye and keen judgement, Harvard's art collections are rich in works by leading 20th century masters," Seymour Slive, Gleason Professor of Fine Arts and director of the Fogg Museum, said Monday...
...some cases citizens went beyond the Government in their expressions of anti-Soviet fury. Two weeks ago, the International Longshoremen's Association announced that its members would not load cargo aboard ships bound for the Soviet Union. Last week President Carter called I.L.A. President Thomas Gleason to the Oval Office and told him, "as your President and Commander in Chief," to "unclog the distribution system." Gleason promised no more than to discuss the request with his membership. But the Government itself is moving to cut down cultural exchanges; last week it made it known that it would cancel...