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Spence found Safran at fault for failing to report a $45,700 grant from the CIA for an October 1985 conference on Islam politics. Safran resigned as director of the center following Spence’s investigation, retaining his professorship...
Still, Spence’s report praised Safran, saying that “his erudition and objectivity as a scholar have not been questioned and are not in question despite the recent controversy.” Spence said he accepted the resignation with “sadness and deep reservation...
...Safran was born in Cairo in 1925 and was of oriental Jewish heritage. He fought in the war for Israeli independence, Mottahedeh said. But he “remained very sentimentally attached to Egypt” and was very moved when he went back in the middle of his life...
Mottahedeh described Safran as a “very affable” man who was “very good at handling people who had strong pro-Arab or pro-Israeli views...
...survived by three daughters—Abigail of Montclair, N.J., Nina of Lemont, Pa. and Elizabeth of Portland, Ore.—several siblings in Israel, two grandchildren and ex-wife Anita Safran...