Book Talk: The Cold War, the Bomb and the Professors Who Turned Around CIA Book talk at the University of Victoria, Wellington
You can read more about Sherman Kent in The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of CIA.
Read Peter's new book, The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA.
The Intelligence Intellectuals explores the relationship between knowledge, power, and national security. It also examines the tension between uncertainty and prediction — especially the challenge of trying to scientifically anticipate Soviet intentions and global threats.
“This is going to be the most impactful IR book out of New Zealand in a generation (at least)”
“A terrific history of the CIA’s early struggle to become a world-class intelligence agency... ”
