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>From the WBAI People message board: "The text you posted does not say
Chomsky worked for the CIA" - Anonymous
It is well known that during the 1950s, the CIA funnelled finances for
its classified research projects through the military. It is also well
known, as reported in Barsky¹s biography of Noam Chomsky, that the budding
MIT linguist worked on a ³machine translation² project at MIT funded
ostensibly by the Pentagon, but as will be shown, in fact by the CIA and
NSA.
³Ironically,² the project was the very sort of intelligence activity Chomsky
has criticized publicly:
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>From the Barsky bio:
http://www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/
³Chomsky was made an assistant professor [at MIT] and assigned,
ironically, to a MACHINE TRANSLATION PROJECT of the type
he had often criticized. The project was directed by Victor
Yngve and was being conducted at the MIT Research
Laboratory of Electronics, which was subsidized by the U.S.
military.²
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But this project was actually funded NOT by the military, but by the CIA and
NSA. From a prior post, ³Manovich on Chomsky's CIA Ties,² which observes
that Chomsky, who worked on the program, took some of the ideas he helped
develop for the CIA and NSA to his work on ³mechanical translation,² a
full-fledged intelligence program directed against the Soviet Union:
³... The idea of computer vision became possible and the economic means to
realize this idea became available only with the shift from industrial to
post-industrial society after World War II. The attention turned from the
automation of the body to the automation of the mind, from physical to
mental labor. This new concern with the automation of mental functions such
as vision, hearing, reasoning, problem solving is exemplified by the very
names of the two new fields that emerged during the 1950s and 1960s --
artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. The latter gradually
replacing behaviorism, the dominant psychology of the "Fordism" era. The
emergence of the field of computer vision is a part of this cognitive
revolution, a revolution which was financed by the military escalation of
the Cold War. This connection is solidified in the very term "artificial
intelligence" which may refer simultaneously to two meanings of
"intelligence": reason, the ability to learn or understand, and information
concerning an enemy or a possible enemy or an area. Artificial intelligence:
artificial reason to analyze collected information, collected intelligence.
In the 1950s, faced with the enormous task of gathering and analyzing
written, photographic, and radar information about the enemy, the CIA and
the NSA (National Security Agency) began to fund the first artificial
intelligence projects. One of the earliest projects was a Program for
Mechanical Translation, initiated in the early 1950s in the attempt to
automate the monitoring of Soviet communications and media. The work on
mechanical translation was probably the major cause of many subsequent
developments in modern linguistics, its move towards formalization; it can
be discerned in Noam Chomsky's early theory which, by postulating the
existence of language universals in the domain of grammar, implied that
translation between arbitrary human languages could be automated.²
-- Alex Constantine
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