Claim: Mitre Corporation, where four of the five authors collaborated for the song, is an American not-for-profit organization that manages federally funded research and development centers.
Evidence: The Mitre Corporation (stylized as The MITRE Corporation and MITRE) is an American not-for-profit organization based in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia. It manages federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) supporting several U.S. government agencies. In 1982, Mitre authored a proposal for the State Department called "Cannabis Eradication in Foreign Western Nations."