Word: safran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nadav Safran, the professor who resigned his position as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies after an investigation of his handling of two CIA grants, has failed in his bid to snag a spot on the steering committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...response to my letter to The Crimson (May 5) Professor Stanley Hoffman agrees with many of them. Scholarship should be based on sources that are accessible to all scholars who are competent to evaluate the evidence. As a rule, scholars should not work on classified materials (as Professor Nadav Safran did not in this case). The offer of privileged access of scholars to personal papers no less the privileged access of scholars to the archives of closed societies raise serious problems for scholarship aiming at truths about such persons or societies and arouses suspicion as to why some scholars...
...cannot help by suspect that the driving force of your pursuit of Professor Safran and others who have worked for the CIA is simply the fact that they have had any contact with the CIA at all rather than the issue of his openess or lack of openess about funding. Are you suggesting that you would have no objections if more Harvard professors did work for American intelligence agencies as long as they were open about funding...
...should their convictions impel them to do so, their decisions should be respected no less than those of the left-leaning scholars of the 1940s who went to Washington to fight Hitlerism. What was right for Marcuse and Moore in the 1940s is no less so for Safran and Huntington in the 1980s...
...American intelligence analysis to a lower level of sophistication than is either prudent, safe or necessary. If The Crimson wants to enhance the divorce between scholarship and the CIA, it should also realize that such a divorce has serious and harmful consequences for the country as a whole. The Safran affair and to a lesser degree the Betts and Huntington issue indicate again that in the current climate at Harvard it takes courage to assist American intelligence agencies. It is not often that a scholar can both contribute to advancing knowledge and, at the same time, help his country...