SPENCE TO START CIA INQUIRY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 14, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HARVARD CRIMSON
ARTICLE APPEARED 14 February 1986
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Spei ' St
CIA Ii,qiry
By DAVID S. HILZENRATH
For the second time id four
months, the dean of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences will conduct an
inquiry into a Harvard professor's
research arrangement with the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
In a statement released by the
Harvard News office yesterday,
Dean A. Michael Spence said that he
will study Eaton Professor of
Government Samuel P. Huntington's
participation in a paid CIA project.
Spence issued the statement after
The Crimson reported yesterday that
Huntington consented to CIA terms
restricting his freedom to publish
research results and prohibiting him
from acknowledging the CIA's
support in print.
Harvard regulations prohibit
scholars from accepting outside.
sponsorship compromising freedom
of publication and disclosure when
their research is conducted under the
aegis of the University.
"I plan to inquire into what in-
stitutional involvement, if any, there
may be." Spence's one-sentence
statement said.
Huntington's work for the CIA
would fall within the purview of
Harvard's rules and would appear to
violate them if institutional in-
volvement were found.
Huntington and his colleagues on
the CIA project told The Crimson
that some of the work was conducted
within the University.
News of Huntington's CIA project
comes four months after revelations
that Nadav Safran, director of the
Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
had accepted two restrictive CIA
grants totaling more than S 150,000.
Those revelations prompted Spence
to conduct an investigation. The
investigation faulted the University's
handling of one of the grants and
Safran's handling of the other.
Amid the ensuing controversy,
Safran resigned from his post as
director, effective in June.
In the aftermath of the Safran
investigation, the faculty is con-
sidering proposals to make more
explicit its rules governing scholars'
personal associations with outside
organizations.
And as a result of the national.
debate that surrounded the Safran
disclosures, the CIA last night an-
nounced major changes in its own
policy toward relationships with
academia.
In a second, monosyllabic
response to a Crimson question
conveyed through the News Office,
Spence said "No," he did not notify,
President Derek C. Bok when he
learned of Huntington's involvement
in the CIA project last fall.
Spence's failure to notify Bok
could conflict with Harvard
guidelines first announced by Bok in
1977.
Those guidelines state in part:
"Individual members of the Harvard
community may enter into direct or
indirect consulting arrangements for
the CIA to provide research or
analytical services. The individual
should report in writing the existence
of such an arrangement to the dean
of his or her faculty, who should then
inform the president of the
University."
Huntington told The Crimson
earlier this week that he "men-
tioned" his CIA project to Spence
after Safran's acceptance of CIA
money received wide publicity.
In another apparent violation of
Harvard guidelines, Huntington said
he did not notify Spence when he
joined the CIA project during the
summer of 1984.
Huntington said he did not im-
mediately report his arrangement to
Spence because he considered his
relationship with the CIA a personal
and indirect one that did not involve
Harvard as an institution.
"I did not inform anyone at
Harvard at that time-there was no
reason to," Huntington said Wed-
nesday. "I do not believe that there
are any University guidelines
regulating this sort of activity," he
said.
Spence's statements did not in-
dicate whether he will examine
Huntington's failure to provide
written notification.
Spence is vacationing in Florida
and could not be reached for com-
ment. He is not scheduled to return to
Cambridge until February 29.
The 58-year-old Huntington is
director of Harvard's Center for
International Affairs and a former
chairman of the Government
Department. He served as coor-
dinator of security planning for the
National Security Council during the
Carter Administration and has
written extensively on democracy and
international security.
Huntington said that during the
summer of 1984, Richard K. Betts, an
occasional consultant to the CIA and
senior fellow of the Brookings In-
stitute in Washington, asked him to
help prepare a report on the demise
of authoritarian rulers for the CIA.
Betts, who is currently a visiting
professor at Harvard, said this week
that he signed a contract with the
CIA before he became a Harvard
employee and paid Huntington with
CIA money to assist him in the
project.
The two scholars would not
disclose the 'amount the CIA paid
them to conduct the research. But
Betts said the total sum was "much,
much less than six figures."
With the aid of a Harvard research
assistant, the two scholars produced a
report for the CIA and a condensed
version of the report entitled "Dead
Dictators and Rioting Mobs."
The article appears in the current
issue of International Security, a
journal sponsored and edited by
Harvard, without mention of the
CIA support.
The managing editor of the
journal, who said Monday he was
unaware of the CIA connection when
the article was published, yesterday
reversed his earlier comment.
Stephen Van Evera said Betts told
him of the CIA sponsorship in
August 1985.
"I told you the wrong thing. I just
forgot." Van Evera said.
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