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Upon learning of the CIA funding, a participant of the conference, David Lelyveld, expressed his concerns over the confidential funding with regard to its potential impact on academic independence in a letter to Safran and The Crimson in 1985.
“The principle of the autonomy of academic inquiry is, I believe, seriously compromised by entangling it with the gathering of intelligence,” Lelyveld wrote.
But this controversy was not the end of Safran’s run-ins with other faculty.
Safran’s 1982 contract with the CIA said that the intelligence agency had the right to review and approve the book before its publication, and that its role in funding the book would not be disclosed.
Further, the University has a contractual agreement with government agencies requiring the latter to respect the academic independence of scholars, according to Ashton B. Carter, professor of science and international affairs.