TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Friday, June 03, 2005

So, do the CIA's anthropologists when they leave college and grow up, become the CIA's apologists?

From BBC 2 June, 2005:

A CIA scheme to sponsor trainee spies secretly through US university courses has caused anger among UK academics.

The Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program pays anthropology students, whose names are not disclosed, up to $50,000 (£27,500) a year.

They are expected to use the techniques of "fieldwork" to gather political and cultural details on other countries.

Britain's Association of Social Anthropologists called the scholarships ethically "dangerous" and divisive.

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