She said that as the years went, by she decided not to bring the story to the press because she wanted to tell it her own way.
In her voluminous writings she has made two mentions of the incident, one in footnotes to a 1979 Harvard Civil Liberties Law Review article and the other in a poem published in 1987.
But inspired by the idea of "truth and reconciliation" she has now decided to step forward and tell the whole tale.
"The idea of having a person who committed a crime tell that they did it to the person they did it to and to try to have a reconciliation is a very appealing thing to me," she said. "That's what led me to this: a feeling that the time had come for Harvard to face openly what's happened in the Cold War."
Ginger says she is waiting to hear back from Harvard about her letter. But until she gets an apology, she has no respect for the University.
"I hate Harvard," Ginger says. "I have absolutely no respect for Harvard until they admit what they did to me."
--Staff writer Joshua E. Gewolb can be reached at gewolb@fas.harvard.edu.
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