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There are several matters of fact as well as broader issues concerning scholars and the Central Intelligence Agency which are raised by your continuing reports on Professor Nadav Safran...
Harvard's involvement with the CIA has been under scrutiny since it was revealed that government professors Nadav Safran and Samuel P. Huntington gave the CIA censorship rights and agreed not to disclose CIA funding for work they did for the agency. Safran's and Huntington's involvement with the CIA has prompted reviews by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and President Derek C. Bok of Harvard's rules governing professors' relationships with the agency...
Just before the Spring vacation I received a piece of mail from the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies (and thus I presume from my colleague Prof. Nadav Safran) which contained an editorial-page column from The Wall Street Journal (March 12) defending Safran in his dispute with the Harvard administration over his C.I.A. ties. This mail saddened me very much. It saddened me because I had hoped my friend and colleague Prof. Safran would take the high-road rather than the low-road in the aftermath of his dispute...
This fall, The Crimson revealed that Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran had entered two contracts with the CIA, one for a conference on Islamic fundamentalism and one for a book about Saudi Arabia. And this spring, Eaton Professor of Government Samuel P. Huntington said he and a colleague prepared a report for the agency. He later published the report under the title, "Dead Dictators, Rioting Mobs," in a Harvard-affiliated journal...
...ever doubting students needed proof that education, especially philosophy pays, even in a technological era, it can be found in the Nadav Safran case. Professor Sissela Bok had hardly left the Yard when her wise words on ethics in general and secrecy in particular were forgotten. I hear that she has been invited to return to give Moral Reasoning 24. I do not know it this is in consequence of the Satran case; whether or not it is, it should be open not only to undergraduates, but to deans and faculty, who seem also to be in need of core...