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...example, one of the main matters discussed in the report is related to funding for a Kennedy School seminar to be conducted by Blackwill for students at the Russian General Staff Academy, for which Blackwill was seeking private funding. The report said Allison mentioned the program to the Russian Defense Attache during a meeting in April and indicated that Aspin supported the program. Allison said at the time that Blackwill would be in Russia shortly to discuss the proposal with the General Staff Academy head...
Allison did not mention this conversation in a subsequent report to Aspin, the investigative report said. He later told investigators that Aspin had expressed eagerness to fund the project. Aspin said he "did not recall discussing whether Dr. Allison should convey to the Russian officials [his] support for the seminar...however, [he] indicated that if Dr. Allison had sought [his] approval, [Aspin] probably would have granted it," the report said...
...report said in another section that Blackwill apparently attempted to meet with the Deputy Secretary of Defense regarding another seminar program that he wanted the Department of Defense to fund--on a day where Blackwill would also be performing consulting duties for the Pentagon. Blackwill later canceled the meeting when the impropriety was brought to his attention, the report said...
...report cleared Blackwill of vague allegations that he used his post to gain inside information that would help him gain Defense Department funding for a Kennedy School seminar. Also, as a consultant Allison is permitted only to advise on departmental hiring. But the report states that Allison apparently contacted the RAND Corporation, a federally funded research and development center with which the Department of Defense has a contract for services, and asked that the contract be used to provide the services of Blackwill, an independent contractor with RAND, as his advisor at the Vancouver summit with Clinton and Russian president...
...will next semester bring the activist and academic sides of his life together in the form of a house seminar on the explanation of causes of homosexuality, both psychological and physiological. He hopes the seminar will continue and extend his efforts to reach out to students, and Goldfarb says he will likely "stay around for dinner often at North House...