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>From: "Bob Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: MIT Professor Chomsky's military ties
>Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:00:23 -0400
>
>Regarding the documentation of MIT Professor Chomsky's ties to the military
>during the McCarthy era of the 1950s:
>
>"In 1955, Chomsky's friend Roman Jakobson arranged for him to work as a
>researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky, in his
>own words, `had no identifiable field or credentials in anything', but MIT,
>`a scientific university which didn't care much about credentials,' was
>willing to overlook his lack of certifiable `professional competence'.
>Chomsky was made an assistant professor and assigned, ironically, to a
>machine translation project of the type he had often criticized. The
>project was directed by Victor Yngve and was being conducted at the MIT
>Research Laboratory of Electronics, which was subsidized by the U.S.
>military.
>
>"...He was...interviewed by laboratory director Jerome Wiesner for the
>position...Chomsky was hired as a full-time faculty member, which meant that
>he was required to spend half his time workin in the research lab...Here,
>his ASPECTS OF THE THEORY OF SYNTAX was hatched...The funding for the
>research published in ASPECTS was provided by `the Joint Services
>Electronics Program (U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force), the Electronics Systems
>Division of the U.S. Air Force, the National Science Foundation, the
>National Institutes of Health, and NASA..." (from NOAM CHOMSKY: A Life of
>Dissent by Robert Barsky)
>
>Jerome Weisner later became the head of JFK's Science Advisory Committee
>during the early 1960s; and according to the 1965 annual report of the Ford
>Foundation-subsidized Institute for Defense Analyses Pentagon
>weapons-research think-tank, Jerome Weisner was an Adviser to IDA's Jason
>Division group of university professors who performed counter-insurgency,
>Vietnam War-related weapons research every summer during the 1960s Viet Nam
>War Era. When students shut down Columbia University in 1968 in support of
>the demand that Columbia resign its institutional membership in IDA, MIT
>Professor Chomsky constructed a left anti-war rationalization for opposing
>the Columbia student revolt--but he did not disclose at the time that an IDA
>Jason Division consultant, Jerome Weisner, was the person who hired him as
>an MIT professor and military lab researcher during the McCarthy Era. As
>Barsky also notes in his NOAM CHOMSKY: A Life of Dissent book: "While he
>admired `the challenge to the universities' that the students were so
>vehemently presenting, Chomsky thought their rebellions were `largely
>misguided,' and he `criticized [them] as they were in progress at Berkeley
>(1966) and Columbia (1968) particularly." Today, of course, MIT is still
>the 12th-largest recipient of U.S. Air Force war research contracts.
>
>bob
>
>
>
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our
problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the
dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and
millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that
people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and
starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people
are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while
the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem."
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