THE CAPTURED FILES TURN HARVARD CRIMSON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100170004-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 26, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 17, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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izy B.'W Y CUNNlNGRit-. refused to confirm or deny the;
The theft of confidential doc-
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said. the mission "hardly showed
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The photocopied documents ical J)isplay and Extensible Lan-
were reproduced in three issues i;uages in Text Manipulations
of the Old Mole, a radical
"underground" publication in
13 o s t o n. University officials,
frankly embarrassed by the
theft, have issued contradictory
explanations and denials con-
cerning Old Mole's charge that
the documents show Harvard
to be "an institution of the
higher classes, a plaything of
the interlocking government- I
rentagon - foundation w o r l d
which makes' American. foreign
"We have not.'i)ccn able to
determine whether documents
still are missing fi'om the dean's
files, and if so, how many,"
st axed a worried administrative
assistant to f a c u 1 t y Dean
Franklin Ford this week. Ford
iokesman for President Nixon
aid Kissinger, "has never been
to North Vietnam in his life."
Ford then withdrew his asser-
tion, but added, "of course, I
Systems." The administration have had no access to classified ;
described the proposal as "open, information."
Finally, the underground pa-
.;lasslfied research," and,.
noted that Harvard had not
permitted classified research for
many years.
Old Mole's printed excerpts
of a document describing MIT's
Center for International Studies
it was established to "nen-
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Harvard economics professor.
Arthur Smithies to Ford, dated
Dec. 7, 1967, revealing Smithies'
connection with the CIA for 10
years. Harvard said Smithies ;
had 'been. a consultant . to an:
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etrate the Iron Curtain with economics unit indirectly .,sub-!
Ideas," and that "much of the sidized b 'y .the CIA.
Initiative for the establishment"
of the center came from mein-?,
hers of the Harvard faculty."
Harvard explained this was a
1953 proposal and that a gov-
ernment; .contract was not in
volved,
The theft and reproduction
of a State Dept. telegram of
was taken to a hospital yes- 1' Oct. 22, 1966 to Ford, thanking
terday for treatment of a "cir- Harvard for making the profes-,
culatory" condition. sor, now Presidential aide Henry
Most controversial of the; Kissinger available for "an ex-,
stolen documents is a letter ! tremely successful mission' to'
Ford wrote to Harvard Presi- South Vietnam" has cause eon-
dent Nathan M'. Pusey express- . fusion in Washington and Lam-
ing Ford's displeasure with a:;bridge.
faculty decision to strip campus . The telegram forced Ford to
ROTC programs of their aca- disclose at a faculty meeting
demic standing. . that Kissinger had -been secret-.
Abolition of ROTC training ly "slipped into North; Vietnam"
at Harvard is the principle dc-'Ion a peace-seeking mtssioti for
mend of strliking.students. Ford foi- er President Johnson. Ford
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