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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

    1. The Chelsea Manning & Harvard business is a good occasion for thinking about the relationship between the Ivy League & the CIA.

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        2. In 1948, Yale put up a statue to Nathaniel Hale, alumni & spy during the American revolution. Statue was not an accident.pic.twitter.com/9XI8OtJlqV

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        3. The CIA, created in 1947, a year before the Hale statue, was heavily staffed with Ivy League alumni, especially Yale & Harvard.

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      4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        4. An emblematic figure of the Ivy League/CIA connection was James Jesus Angleton, Yale undergrad, Harvard Law (1943).

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      5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        5. As an undergrad, Angleton had been steeped in the emerging High Modernist canon (Pound, Eliot, Empsonian "close reading")

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      6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        6. During World War 2, Angleton & other Ivy Leaguers heavily recruited for OSS (precursor to CIA). Later they were creators of CIA.

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      7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        7. The aesthetic propaganda used by the CIA very much that of mid-century elite colleges: high modernism, abstract expressionism, jazz.

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      8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        8. Reason why I'm emphasizing aesthetics is that the college education Angleton & other spooks received informed their spy-craft.

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      9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        9. Angleton fantasized about translating Eliot's "The Waste Land" into Russian & airdropping copies over USSR. Just to show the Ruskies.

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      10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        10. Angleton eventually became head of counter-intelligence, which is when he really to use his Ivy League education.

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      11. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        11. From Empson and other New Critics, Angleton had been taught to be attentive to ambiguity, latent & hidden meaning.

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      12. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        12. Angleton interrogated defectors. He could never accept their testimony at face value but looked for ambiguity & double meaning.

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      13. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        13. Always fearing each defector was really a double agent, Angleton became increasingly paranoid, believing CIA infiltrated by moles.

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      14. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        14. In his Ahab-like quest for the big mole, Angleton held defectors prisoner indefinitely & drugged them.

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      15. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        15. Although later the CIA would democratize & accept recruits even from state schools, the Ivy League connection is still there.

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      16. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 15 Sep 2017

        16. All of which helps explain why Harvard caved so quickly to some very dubious spooks.

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