HARVARD PROFESSOR GOT CIA FUNDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
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• Publication Date: February 14, 1986
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WASHINGTON POST
14 February 1986
H9rard
Professor Got
CIA Funds
Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 13-'
Questions about Central Intelli-
gence Agency funding at Harvard'
were raised for the second time in.
recent months today after another
professor acknowledged doing rem,.
search for the agency without no-
university officials.
Samuel Huntington, a professor
of government and director of the
university's Center for Internation-?
?a& Affairs, said he believes he did
not violate any guidelines because
he only was assisting another schol-
ar, Richard K. Betts, who was not a
IW'vard employe.
He said the research on the de-.
mise of authoritarian rulers was
commissioned by the CIA in 1984.-
A condensed version of the re-
port-"Dead Dictators and Rioting
Mobs"-appears in the winter edi
tion of International Security, a
journal that is edited and sponsored
by Harvard. _
Harvard Dean A. Michael Spence.
said in a brief written statement to-
day that Huntington told him orally
of the CIA-funded research in the?
fall of 1985. Spence could not be
reached for further comment. . .
Harvard does not prohibit its pro-
fessors from working for the CIA;
but it requires them to notify the
school in writing about such activ-
ities.
In the earlier case, Prof. Nadav,
Safran, director of Harvard's Cen-
ter for Middle Eastern Studies, ac-
knowledged accepting two, CIA,
grants totaling. $153,000. A univer-
sity investigation led to Safran's
resignation as director of the cen-
ter, effective in June. He remains at
tenured professor at Harvard.
The questions about Hunting-
ton's research were raised as the
CIA announced it will no longer re=
quire university researchers spon.
sored by the agency to keep its sup-
port secret, unless the work in,
volves classified information.
However, Robert Gates, CIA
deputy director for intelligence, ac-
cused Harvard of threatening ac-
ademic freedom. "The university
steps on precarious ground and
threatens academic freedom itself
by restricting what organizations a
scholar may talk to, especially if one
of the organizations is a branch of
the government," he. said in a
speech at the university.
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