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...said that because former Dean of the College of Communication Bernard S. Redmont opposed the project, two of the school's associate deans distributed among the communications faculty McCarthy-era newspaper clippings that identified him as a Communist. Redmont resigned as dean last year over the program...
Before resigning his post, Redmont cosigned a letter to John Silber, president of BU, with nine other BU faculty members calling into question the integrity of the media project...
...result, Dean emeritus and Professor of Journalism Bernard Redmont stepped down as dean of the university's College of Communications in the summer of 1986 because he "felt the Afghan media project...raised an issue of journalistic and academic ethics...
...Redmont said he resigned because poor communications, disputing political factions, inadequate security and the influence of foreign agents in Pakistan made the university's presence in Pakistan appear suspect to outsiders, whatever its actual motives. "There is the danger that the college could be involved in propaganda and the risk to our reputation that there could be that perception," Redmont said...
Next day, however, Hanoi's Paris mission took the next step itself and issued a statement labeling Redmont's report a "pure invention." The only truth in it, said the statement, was that "conversations"-not peace talks-will take place if the bombings stop. Apparently, Hanoi's man in Paris had been carried away by his own rhetoric and had told Redmont more than his government thought prudent...