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.ââSigmund Diamond,
Compromised Campus: The Collaboration of Universities with the Intelligence Community, 1945â1955
(1992), p. 140. Most Kissinger biographers, when they discuss Kissinger's Harvard mentor, William Elliott, focus on his “flamboyance,” downplaying his very close ties with domestic and national intelligence agencies and his unapologetic advocacy in favor of domestic surveillance. Diamond's chapter “Kissinger and Elliott” does a good job (based on declassified US government documents) at tracing the complicated nexus of Harvard Yard and Langley, at the center of which was Elliott, a committed Cold Warrior who suggested (in a 1958 article that he inscribed to J. Edgar Hoover) that an “Atlantic Round Table for Freedom,” based on the “Round Table of Arthurian legend” that held “the West against Hun and Moslem,” be established, composed of “ten outstanding Companions,” or modern “Knights.”

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.ââState Department inspectors determined that the defoliation was “caused by a deliberate and direct overflight of the rubber plantations.” Independent investigators, in consultation with US authorities, including Senator Frank Church, suggested that the CIA targeted the plantations in order to destabilize the Sihanouk government. See Wells-Dang, “Agent Orange in Laos and Cambodia: The Documentary Evidence,” in
Indochina News
(Summer 2002), available here:
http://www.ffrd.org/indochina/summer02news.html#ao
. See also A. H. Westing, E. W. Pfeiffer, J. Lavorel, and L. Matarasso, “Report on Herbicidal Damage by the United States in Southern Cambodia,” December 31, 1969, in Thomas Whiteside,
Defoliation
(1970), pp. 117â32; and Arthur H. Westing, “Herbicidal Damage to Cambodia,” in J. B. Neilands et al.,
Harvest of Death: Chemical Warfare in Vietnam and Cambodia
(1972), pp. 177â205.

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