Noam Chomsky
MIT linguist and, independent of this vault's MIT/Vietnam-era thread, one of the most influential and independently notable figures in 20th-century linguistics and public intellectual life. He matters to this specific thread as a contemporaneous participant rather than a later critic: he sat as one of the twenty-two members of the 1969 Review Panel on Special Laboratories (the "Pounds Panel") and filed his own dissenting statement in its Final Report — a primary record of his position on MIT's weapons research at the time, distinct from his better-known later public commentary on the subject, and not yet read in full in this vault.
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