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The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA(Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History)

The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA(Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History)


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The untold story of how America's brightest academic minds revolutionized intelligence analysis at the CIA

In the early days of the Cold War, the United States faced a crisis in intelligence analysis. A series of intelligence failures in 1949 and 1950, including the failure to warn about the North Korean invasion of South Korea, made it clear that gut instinct and traditional practices were no longer sufficient for intelligence analysis in the nuclear age. The new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Walter Bedell Smith, had a mandate to reform it.

Based on new archival research in declassified documents and the participants' personal papers, The Intelligence Intellectuals reveals the neglected history of how America's brightest academic minds were recruited by the CIA to revolutionize intelligence analysis during this critical period. Peter C. Grace describes how the scientifically sound analysis methods that they introduced significantly helped the United States gain an advantage in the Cold War, and these new analysts legitimized the role of the recently created CIA in the national security community. Grace demonstrates how these professors—such as William Langer from Harvard, Sherman Kent from Yale, and Max Millikan from MIT—developed systematic approaches to intelligence analysis that shaped the CIA's methodology for decades to come.

Readers interested in the history of the Cold War and in intelligence, scholars of intelligence studies, Cold War historians, and intelligence practitioners seeking to understand their craft's foundations will all value this insightful history about the place of social science in national security.



About the Author :

Peter C. Grace is a lecturer on politics and international relations at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is one of the volume editors of New Zealand's Foreign Policy under the Jacinda Ardern Government.



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781647126445
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 306
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  • Series Title: Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
  • Sub Title: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1647126444
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jan 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 514 gr


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