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Here is a brief recap of the case surrounding Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran, the Harvard faculty member who prompted the recent debate...
...October 10, 1985--Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence says he is conducting an investigation into Safran's use of a $50,000 grant from the CIA to fund an academic conference. Spence expresses concern that Safran may not have reported the funding to the University...
...October 11, 1985--It is revealed that Safran took a second CIA grant for more than $100,000 to fund a book on Saudi Arabia without revealing the grant's source in the Harvard University Press publication...
...October 12, 1985--A copy of Safran's contract with CIA reveals that the professor gave the spy agency the right to pre-publication review of his book...
...October 15, 1985--Three members of the faculty committee that oversees the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, which Safran directs, call on the professor to resign. In the wake of revelations that the CIA will fund a conference on Islamic fundamentalism, many scholars, including several from the Middle East, withdraw from the two-day event...