Sunday, August 15, 2004
 Hartford Courant August 15, 2004:If President Bush's nomination of U.S. Rep. Porter Goss of Florida is approved, the Central Intelligence Agency will have its third Yale alumnus as its director.
And Goss, who first joined the agency the year he graduated from Yale - 1960 - will be continuing the university's long tradition of contributing to the agency.
Though its connections with the CIA are nowhere near what they once were, Yale - which has roots in espionage as far back as alumnus Nathan Hale - has arguably done more than any other university to shape the course of American intelligence.
From the 1940s to the early 1960s, Yale was closely connected with the CIA and its predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services. The bonds loosened in the 1970s, but were never severed. A list of some of the agency's most influential figures reads like a who's who of Yale alumni. There have been two CIA directors: former President George H.W. Bush, who served in 1976 and 1977, and R. James Woolsey, who served from 1993 to 1995.
Yalies Richard M. Bissell Jr. and Tracy Barnes engineered the Bay of Pigs disaster... William F. Buckley Jr. served a stint in the CIA.
There was Sherman Kent, a member of the research and analysis division of the OSS who was instrumental in bringing new Yalies into the CIA; and Walter L. Pforzheimer, who headed several operations in OSS and helped draft the act that created the CIA in 1947.
And there was James Jesus Angleton, perhaps the quintessential American spy
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Robin Winks, a Yale history professor who died last year, wrote in his book "Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War 1939-1961" that 42 Yale students, just from the Class of 1943, went into the OSS. So many Yale alumni populated its research and analysis branch that it came to be known as "the campus."
Ernest May, a historian at Harvard who specializes in the CIA and OSS, said... "The key was that there were a number of Yale faculty members who were Anglophile and they admired the British system... they volunteered for the OSS, which was modeled after the British intelligence system."...
At least one CIA operation directly involved Yale's business matters... - Was young John Kerry an intelligence operative?
- Dem Mena Bones & Kerry
- Vanity Fair: Bonesmen ran Iran-Contra
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