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...addition, rumors about links between the Institute and the CIA have reportedly kept some researchers from accepting funds from the Institute. According to the New York Times, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence raised the issue in May 1976 by questioning "possible connections between the CIA, the Hughes Institute and selected medical schools," but no links have ever been found...
...reads it, NATO policy in the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe might go something like this: Soviet tanks begin to roll across the continent, overrunning weaker NATO conventional forces. The allies, unsure how else to react, turn quickly to the nuclear arsenal. From it they select a single bomb and explode it somewhere in the sky over Europe, demonstrating our readiness to fight a nuclear...
...agency's critics, sputtering anew as various versions of the Administration's proposal were leaked, revised and leaked again, received some strong bipartisan support last week. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee recommended that the Administration abandon its plan to permit the CIA to infiltrate and influence domestic groups, a key part of the proposed Executive Order. In a cryptic defense of the plan, an Administration official says, "Our aim is to allow flexibility...
...Bobby Inman on how far the Administration should go to accommodate congressional critics. In Congress, even the CIA's boosters would rather avoid yet another damaging, headline-making controversy. "Why is the Administration doing this?" asks Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "They're making the CIA a huge issue again, just when it was getting back to work...
...chose Harvard because we were selecting preeminent institutions, and Harvard qualifies on anybody's list," Furman said, adding that the foundation also tried to select institutions that have received relatively small grants from the Mellon Foundation, the major source of private funding for universities. Harvard is the only Ivy League school that received a MacArthur grant...