The guard charged that the report inaccurately reported his statements from the interview. For example, the guard said he had given investigator James A. Ring the names of three guards who had witnessed the alleged harassment, not one as the report said.

The Russian guard also said he had not been involved in another physical confrontation before the one that cost him his job in January 1993, as is alleged in the report.

"It's so bad," said the guard. "I gave Ring a lot of extremely important leads to check out."

The guard said Ring told him in the interview that the January 1993 firing, which came after he allegedly assaulted another guard, would not be part of the report. Ring ended the interview without asking questions about it, the guard said. And when the guard asked if they could talk about the issue, Ring said there was no time. The incident was, however, included in the report.

In addition, the guard claimed that he was singled out for disciplinary infractions for which other guards were not written up. The guard made the same charge in a complaint he filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination earlier in the summer.

"I really was naive," the guard said. "I believed in [Harvard's] good intentions."

Pierre R. Voss

Some of the report's harshest words were reserved for Pierre R. Voss, who had charged he was discriminated against and harassed on the job. The report charged that Voss "has used unfounded complaints of racism with management and in the student press for personal advantage, and as a means of undermining [security supervisor Donald P.] Behenna."

Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling has said much the same thing during interviews in recent months. Behenna has refused to answer all questions from The Crimson.

The report based its finding largely on the anonymous statements of several guards who are not named in the report. According to the report, four guards said they had heard Voss say he would charge discrimination if he had trouble in the department. And other guards are quoted as saying Voss "is irresponsible and performs inadequately."

In an interview this weekend, Voss challenged these guards to come forward. "I'd like to see them produce these witnesses, and have them stop hiding behind James Ring," Voss said.

Voss said the report exaggerated a situation when he tried to enter Lehman Hall in 1991 in an apparent attempt to play pool with his girlfriend. Voss was fired after that incident, but was fixed after he appealed because the firing did not follow progressive discipline procedures.

Voss also said the report failed to mention several incidents of discrimination and harassment he had reported to Ring. The report maintains that he offered only two specific allegations of discrimination in the interview.

The report also ruled that Behenna, who Voss has accused of harassment, did not coerce the guard into writing a letter in the spring of 1991 saying Behenna was not racist. Voss disputed that finding, charging that Behenna had hounded him for three weeks for the letter, including once over the radio. He said Behenna had also subtly threatened his job during the spring, when Voss was in his initial six-month probationary period and could be fired for any reason.

The report says that Behenna and Voss had a "work-related friendship" that went awry in March 1991. Voss emphasized that while he tried to be friendly to his boss, he was never a friend.