Word: quest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preface to the 524-page book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security," Safran acknowledges research support from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rand Corporation but makes no mention of the CIA grant...
...Harvard was at fault regarding a $107,430 CIA grant for Safran's recently published book, "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security." Spence states that in 1982, Safran properly reported the funding to then Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, calling his attention to controversial contract stipulations giving the CIA pre-publication censorship rights and requiring Safran not to reveal the CIA funding in the book. But, Spence reports, Rosovsky--who is identified in the report not by name but by title--made "administrative errors" in neither reviewing the terms of the contract nor responding to Safran's disclosure...
...Note: The title of Safran's recently published book is stated incompletely in Spence's report. The complete title is "Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security...
...Professor Safran for a conference entitled "Islam and Politics in the Contemporary Muslim World" was brought to the University's attention in early October 1985. Shortly thereafter, the press reported a second CIA contract to support research that resulted in a book by Professor Safran entitled "Saudi Arabia: The Quest for Security." The book was recently published by the Harvard University Press...
...Professor Safran signed a contract with the CIA for support of the research that resulted in his book, "Saudi Arabia: The Quest for Security." The period of performance specified by the contract was March 1, 1982 through February 28, 1983, and the amount of money involved...