The Socio-Educational Composition of the CIA Elite: A Statistical Note

Jeffreys‐Jones, Rhodri

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“…This 'old boy' system was quite productive in providing new employees in the professional ranks. Thus, there was an early linkage between the Agency and the Ivy League, or similar schools" (Cook, 34;Jefreys-Jones 1985).…”

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Cold War Anthropology

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When I began publishing work on anthropologists and the Cold War and was not sure whether to do a single book spanning the materials covered in this volume, Threatening Anthropology, and Anthropological Intelligence, three wise women (Nina Glick-Schiller, Janice Harper, and Laura Nader) in de pen dently told me to break the stories up into separate volumes and to lead with the Mc-Carthy story. Janice Harper explic itly told me that anthropologists love stories in which we are victims (McCarthyism) but won't like being shown as "collaborators. " I had no idea it would take me two de cades of largely unfunded, but highly rewarding, research to document this story.The influences for this proj ect are broad, but the seeds for these volumes were planted three de cades ago when I was an undergraduate reading the work of

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confidence: 99%