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Smithies, Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Master of Kirkland House, submitted an unpublished study on economic Vietnamization to the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) presidential election...
...Smithies make these political assumptions himself or did he act on specifications prepared by the IDA? That is one of the unanswered questions. Smithies refused to talk on the record: "I don't try to get into political controversy," he said. Probably he chose to posit a rightwing political administration, largely because that is the contingency he is academically equipped to handle. But the question misses the point. When the IDA gave him the contract, it knew the sort of work he was likely to do. That was the sort of work it wanted...
...continuing consultant with the IDA under contract with the Vietnam Bureau of the Agency for International Development (AID), Smithies frequently visits Vietnam. He was in Saigon this summer. Author of several reports not intended for publication, he is now working on a State Department project based at the Columbia School of International Affairs (CSLA...
Universities are wary about government contracts because their institutional memories recall the 1968 Columbia student disorders, in which demonstrators focused much of their protest on the IDA. At that time the IDA was controlled by a group of universities, including Columbia. After the violence at Columbia the universities bowed out of the IDA, and it became an independent corporation...
...State Department is funding a project at Columbia with a staff including Arthur Smithies, an IDA consultant...