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The intelligence intellectuals : social scientists and the making of the CIA / Peter C. Grace

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • The intelligence intellectuals : social scientists and the making of the CIA / Peter C. Grace
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Washington, DC : Geogetown University Press
Date de copyright
  • C 2026
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (XVIII-288 pages) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection
  • Georgetown studies in intelligence history
ISBN
  • 978-1-6471-2643-8
  • 978-1-6471-2644-5
EAN
  • 9781647126438
  • 9781647126445 broché
Appartient à la collection
  • Georgetown studies in intelligence history 2024 Washington, DC Georgetown University Press 24 cm
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 327.127 3
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliographie pages 267-278. Notes bibliographiques en fin de chapitres. Index.
Résumé ou extrait
  • "The Intelligence Intellectuals analyzes the impact of the recruitment of social scientists into the CIA to fix intelligence analysis in the early Cold War. Peter Grace analyzes the significance of how these scholars helped create modern intelligence analysis by bringing advanced analytic methods to a job that had previously operated on an ad hoc basis. This was part of a broader societal trend where social science methods were being incorporated into business management and other sectors of government. These professors from history, political science, and economics departments at top research universities were recruited to the CIA after a series of intelligence failures, especially the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950. The new director of Central Intelligence, Walter Bedell Smith, had a mandate to reform the agency. Professors such as William Langer of Harvard, Sherman Kent of Yale, and Max Millikan of MIT arrived and brought their associates and recent Ph.D graduates. Little attention has been given to this fascinating history of the professionalization of intelligence analysis and how these pioneers shaped the Cold War and beyond"-- Provided by publisher
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