{"id":26786,"date":"2017-10-13T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26786"},"modified":"2017-10-13T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T13:52:01","slug":"harvard-the-cia-and-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26786","title":{"rendered":"Harvard, the CIA, and All That\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/10\/13\/harvard-the-cia-and-all-that\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Harvard, the CIA, and All That<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_96639\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96639 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-11-at-10.46.45-AM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-11-at-10.46.45-AM.png 394w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/10\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-11-at-10.46.45-AM-300x224.png 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Center for International Affairs, 1958\u20131959 by Center for International Affairs with Henry Kissinger and Robert R. Bowie front and center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After Harvard\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government rescinded its invitation to Army whistle-blower Chelsea Manning (whom Obama sprung from the brig by pardoning her), a chorus of protest (led by 19,000 Harvard alumni and 169 professors) ensued. The main issue, according to them and the press, was how the Institute of Politics (IOP) at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) caved to deep-state pressure. Specifically, current CIA Director Mike Pompeo cancelled his talk at the school, and former CIA deputy director Michael Morrell tendered his resignation to Harvard\u2019s Belfer Center, saying \u201cI cannot be a part of an organization\u2026that honors a convicted felon and leaker of classified information,\u201d apparently believing that only the best and brightest war criminals deserve such honorifics (horrorifics?). When, after all, has the CIA ever taken Harvard publicly to task for slack on the national security front?<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned. Sure enough, a penitent dean Douglas Elmendorf quickly issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hks.harvard.edu\/announcements\/statement-dean-elmendorf-regarding-invitation-chelsea-manning-be-visiting-fellow\">statement<\/a> admitting that Manning\u2019s appointment as a Fellow \u201cwas a mistake, for which I accept responsibility. \u2026 I think we should weigh, for each potential visitor, what members of the Kennedy School community could learn from that person\u2019s visit against the extent to which that person\u2019s conduct fulfills the values of public service to which we aspire.\u201d Ranking high among those values, one is forced to presume, is the necessity of continuing Harvard\u2019s engagement with the deep national security state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sic Transit Veritas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elmendorf\u2019s reaction was not unexpected. Harvard\u2019s association with spooks goes way back. Let me tell you a little story about the good old boys in the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard, the CIA, and All That\u00a0 Members of the Center for International Affairs, 1958\u20131959 by Center for International Affairs with Henry Kissinger and Robert R. Bowie front and center After Harvard\u2019s John F. Kennedy School of Government rescinded its invitation to Army whistle-blower Chelsea Manning (whom Obama sprung from the brig by pardoning her), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4102,135,5493,199,16467,5156],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-counterpunch","tag-deep-state","tag-geoff-dutton","tag-harvard-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26787,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions\/26787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}