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There is some of this tainted money spread around the University, no doubt about it. At least two Harvard professors--Seymour Lipset and Alex Inkeles--are doing research financed in part by Air Force funds. But the research is only peripherally involved with war-making. And, as Lipset said in an interview recently, "The Air Force gave me my grant merely because my research contributed in a general sort of way to increased knowledge...
...Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations, has received $100,000 from the Air Force over the past five years. He has been an administrator of a large-scale investigation of the role of education in the social and political development of countries throughout the world, focusing primarily on Latin America...
...Lipset farms out the money he receives any way he sees fit. He claims that he is given free rein to support any work that he feels is relevant to the project. He said in an interview last week that he is not required to consult the Air Force; all he must tell them is what he told them when he first applied for the money--that his work will increase the general level of knowledge...
...presently subsidizing nine professors, who in turn supervise graduate research. Each professor is studying the relationship of education and development in a particular country or set of countries. Lipset would not release the names of those people because, he said, he did not want to subject them to student protests...
Critics have been giving Lipset dirty looks recently. Much of his research deals with Latin America, and they see some connection between the research and the U.S. military's concern with suppressing revolution in that continent. But Lipset denies there is any connection...