Podcast: From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped CIASpy Cast podcast (International Spy Museum, Washington D.C)

From Ivory Tower to Iron Curtain: The Academics Who Reshaped CIA Spy Cast podcast

International Spy Museum, Washington D.C

You can read more about Sherman Kent in The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of CIA.

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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)”

— Nicholas Ross Smith, Canterbury University

“A terrific history of the CIA’s early struggle to become a world-class intelligence agency... ”

— David E. Hoffman David Hoffman, author, The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal