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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14. In his Ahab-like quest for the big mole, Angleton held defectors prisoner indefinitely & drugged them.
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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. All of which helps explain why Harvard caved so quickly to some very dubious spooks.
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Angleton's paranoia had rather more to do with his feeling of betrayal by his friend Philby than with anything he learned at Yale.
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in the end he nurtured it into a straightup persecution complex, remarkable for such a powerful brö
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Ironically he was on on Philby's jock the entire time and had no clue until Philby defected for Russia.
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J.J. Angleton : Harold/Kim Philby J.A. Joyce : Bradley/Chelsea Manning
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