Robert,
Yes, that's right - it is my understanding that a paraphrasing or 
summary is permissible in such circumstances.
Bruce

  On 5/13/2011 10:54 PM, Robert Leeson wrote:
> In response to off-list requests: I can't circulate this material in its current form until I have archival citation permission from the relevant book publisher (permission requested several months ago).
>
> I understand that if a scholar is denied permission to quote public domain archival material, a summary of letters etc can be used instead (along with a discussion about the attempted suppression).  Does anyone have information about this?
>
> Robert Leeson
>
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> Subject: [SHOE] Economists and the Cold War
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> There is a dispassionate account of the corruption and manipulation of 'information' during the Cold War in a forthcoming volume in my Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics series.  The left wing Guardian newspaper plus a number of economists (including Terence Hutchison and Friedrich Hayek) were "taken for a ride" by someone who devoted his 'professional' life to 'faction' or less politely, fraud, and Cold War fraud in particular.
>
> Robert Leeson


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