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...word article, “How Harvard Lost Russia,” by investigative journalist David McClintick ’62, is a copious narrative of the activities of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in advising the Russian government while supported by funding from the State Department’s Agency for International Development...
...McClintick, a former investigative reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the author of three books, said in a telephone interview last night that his research, which included two trips to Russia and a close reading of the “very revealing” court record, had helped shed light on the Shleifer affair by presenting a detailed account of the whole matter in a single article...
...There is a good deal of pent-up concern about this on the Harvard Faculty, but many Harvard Faculty members have been reluctant to speak out,” McClintick said. “Most of the conversations I had [with faculty] were away from Harvard Square, away from Cambridge, in people’s homes late at night...
TIME's European edition last week published a 23-page investigative report on Lloyd's by author David McClintick, whose books include the 1983 best seller Indecent Exposure, about embezzlement and power games at Columbia Pictures. The TIME report lends some support to assertions that top Lloyd's execs were aware of the devastating impact that the asbestos claims were likely to have, even as Lloyd's was feverishly recruiting unsuspecting new Names to help absorb the losses...
Swordfish does not end there. But in contrast to the blow-by-blow account of the operation, the rest of McClintick's story -- Navarro's escape from the U.S., her capture and (probably) illegal extradition for trial from Venezuela, Darias' misadventures as an unhappy witness -- is told in a kind of tired, cryptic shorthand. Darias had the street-smarts to tape his agents as well as his marks. McClintick, who was widely praised for his 1982 Hollywood expose, Indecent Exposure, uses the transcripts of those conversations in such numbing detail that he seemingly ran out of pages to conclude...