Word: nadav
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, Bok says that until he began his investigation six months ago into the CIA presence on college campuses, he was uninformed himself about many of the issues surrounding the intelligence agency's rules for academics. Bok began his investigation after learning that two Harvard Government professors, Nadav Safran and Samuel P. Huntington, failed to disclose their acceptance of CIA funds. Both professors granted the spy agency pre-publication review of their manuscripts, which many scholars consider unethical...
According to Zaki, the source of the account may have been confused about an incident which occurred in 1982 and had nothing to do with Harvard, Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran...
Foremost among the issues facing the faculty was the thorny problem of government-supported research. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was forced to resign as director of the Center of Middle Eastern Studies after secret CIA funding for his research and a conference was made public. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence eventually published a report which shifted much of the blame onto some supposedly sloppy administration by Spence's predecessor, Henry Rosovsky. The report was widely perceived both inside and outside of the faculty as a whitewash, and a superficial one at that...
...Nadav Safran was not the only casualty of the revelations about his use of CIA money at Harvard...
...phone just wouldn't stop ringing," says an official who remembers the weeks which followed the news that the Center's director, Nadav Safran, had used more than $150,000 of the CIA's money to fund academic work. "From Voice of America, from Kuwait, Iran, Iraq--from all over the world--they wanted to know about our work...