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Harvard is considering whether to join the Project, which would use M.I.T. computers for social science research funded by the Defense Department. The project has come under strong radical atack as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare...
...Brooks are all members of the Faculty Committee on Research Policy, to which the new committee will report. The Research Policy Committee will then make a recommendation to the Faculty, which in turn will advise the Corporation on how, if at all, Harvard should be associated with the Cambridge Project...
Most members of the Brooks committee have not yet expressed a strong feeling either for or against the project. Pattullo, however, seems to favor a Harvard link with the Project. while Womack, a leader of the Faculty's "liberal caucus," said Tuesday that he was "strongly prejudiced against the idea...
Pattullo's Center for the Behavioral Sciences withdrew an application for re-search grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) after the Project was publicized. Without official Harvard endorsement of the Project, Pattullo has said, individual Harvard participants "would he in a 'beggars at the table' position-wholly dependent on the M.I.T. group...
Womack based his argument against the Project on two points. First, he said, "projects like this attract a horde of people, most of them with absurd ideas for research." More importantly, he said, "I suspect that the people getting most use out of the Project will be the Defense Department, and at this moment in American politics. I don't trust Defense to make the use of it that I would like...