From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped the CIA
historian and director of public programming, International Spy Museum
Cold WarIntelligence & Espionage
Selection · Edition 2026-05-22
Dr Andrew Hammond covers how the CIA recruited Ivy League academics after a string of early intelligence failures, and how their analytical methods reshaped Cold War national security thinking. More institutional history than tradecraft, but squarely focused on how intelligence analysis was professionalised.
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