The Nation - News from Feb. 14, 1986
The CIA will no longer require university researchers sponsored by the agency to keep its support secret, unless the work involves classified information, a CIA official said in Cambridge, Mass. He said participants in CIA-backed conferences will be told ahead of time about the agency connections. However, Robert Gates, CIA deputy director, in a speech at Harvard, accused the school of threatening academic freedom and said it “steps on precarious ground . . . by restricting what organizations a scholar may talk to.” Harvard official Joseph S. Nye Jr. praised Gates’ speech. “You’ve just heard a bureaucracy move,” he said.
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