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...good to have a CEA (Central Ethical Agency) on campus as guardian of the university's most cherished values: arrogance and hypocrisy. I hope it won't delay in "letting the world know where Harvard stands." Anita Safran...
Just before the Spring vacation I received a piece of mail from the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies (and thus I presume from my colleague Prof. Nadav Safran) which contained an editorial-page column from The Wall Street Journal (March 12) defending Safran in his dispute with the Harvard administration over his C.I.A. ties. This mail saddened me very much. It saddened me because I had hoped my friend and colleague Prof. Safran would take the high-road rather than the low-road in the aftermath of his dispute...
...editorial-page column mailed by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies was called "Harvard's Point of Order," by Mark Helprin, identified as a novelist and political writer. I can only assume that Prof. Safran endorses the incredible argument offered by Mark Helprin which had three main points: 1) That Prof. Safran's ties to the C.I.A. violate nothing--neither the university's rules regulating such ties nor normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life; 2) that normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life are humbug anyway, especially when set against the imperatives of state; and 3) that...
This fall, The Crimson revealed that Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran had entered two contracts with the CIA, one for a conference on Islamic fundamentalism and one for a book about Saudi Arabia. And this spring, Eaton Professor of Government Samuel P. Huntington said he and a colleague prepared a report for the agency. He later published the report under the title, "Dead Dictators, Rioting Mobs," in a Harvard-affiliated journal...
...separate reviews of the two cases, Dean ofthe Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spencefound Safran violated university guidelines in notproperly reporting the CIA-sponsored conference.But Spence in the reviews did not fault Huntingtonand Safran for working privately for the CIA whileagreeing to research restrictions...