7-16-95. NYPaper: "New Concerns Raised Over a Computer Smut Study. 'They wanted to be famous.' It worked." Growing controversy over a widely publicized study of on-line computer pornography, conducted by a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, has prompted the university to investigate whether the research violated ethical or academic guidelines. The investigation follows the disclosure by angry faculty members that an undergraduate student and his principal faculty adviser at Carnegie Mellon spied on the private computer habits of nearly 3,000 students, staff members and other faculty members last year as part of the research study into pornography viewing habits. KEY_hol "Documents Were Destroyed as F.B.I. Resisted Seige Investigation. Hints of a cover-up: more embarrassment over a fatal confrontation." A Justice Department report not yet made public on the F.B.I.'s standoff with a white separatist in Idaho shows that in late 1992 and early 1993 F.B.I. managers were frantically trying to block Federal prosecutors from obtaining the Bureau's records on the case. Justice Department investigators, who uncovered the document destruction, have found that a career F.B.I. official stripped the files of official records that would have clearly shown if top F.B.I. officials in Washington were in command of the operation. FOL_hah Siamese: FAM_15"