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7-16-95. NYPaper:
"New Concerns Raised Over a Computer Smut Study. 'They
wanted to be famous.' It worked."
Growing controversy over a widely publicized study of
on-line computer pornography, conducted by a researcher
at Carnegie Mellon University, has prompted the
university to investigate whether the research violated
ethical or academic guidelines. The investigation
follows the disclosure by angry faculty members that an
undergraduate student and his principal faculty adviser
at Carnegie Mellon spied on the private computer habits
of nearly 3,000 students, staff members and other
faculty members last year as part of the research study
into pornography viewing habits. KEY_hol
"Documents Were Destroyed as F.B.I. Resisted Seige
Investigation. Hints of a cover-up: more embarrassment over
a fatal confrontation."
A Justice Department report not yet made public on the
F.B.I.'s standoff with a white separatist in Idaho shows
that in late 1992 and early 1993 F.B.I. managers were
frantically trying to block Federal prosecutors from
obtaining the Bureau's records on the case. Justice
Department investigators, who uncovered the document
destruction, have found that a career F.B.I. official
stripped the files of official records that would have
clearly shown if top F.B.I. officials in Washington were
in command of the operation. FOL_hah
Siamese: FAM_15"