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Drawing on experiences of the Ford Foundation in Chile, Argentina, & Uruguay in the 1970s, the problem of providing pluralistic academic support when Us are controlled by repressive authoritarian regimes is discussed. Methods of intellectual repression include: (1) conciliatory public statements & secret harassment, (2) gradual dismissal of all "undesirable" faculty, (3) equation of dissent with subversion, (4) witch hunts, (5) budget cuts to justify political dismissals, (6) anti-intellectual terrorism, & (7) blacklists. Between the extremes of full cooperation & total refusal to provide academic support under such conditions, various options are outlined. It is important that association with partisan academic attempts to undermine the existing government be avoided; the value of actively defining goals & means of achieving them, & the advisability of keeping a low profile are asserted. The viability of providing academic support via nongovernmental research centers is noted. 13 References. J. Weber.