Several decades passed between 1940 and WWII? I'm older than I realized.
On Mar 24, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Government has also worked to stymie campus opposition to US policies at > home and abroad. In 1940, the Rapp-Coudert Committee was established to > investigate subversion among faculty members at both public and private > colleges in the New York area. This followed on the heels of a decade of > pro-worker and anti-fascist protest at the City College of New York. The > upshot of the Committee's work? CCNY fired 60 faculty members, an action > that proved to be a powerful deterrent; several decades later, during > World War II, 227 campuses allowed army specialized training programs to > set up shop. Then, by the time the Cold War started, the > state-university compact was so entrenched that it ensured that > scientific knowledge would serve US global interests. Add in > McCarthyism, and most academics quickly hunkered down and towed the line. > > By 1960, Chatterjee and Maira write, the political science department at > MIT was fully funded by the CIA - and MIT was not an anomaly. "The CIA > supported social science research throughout the 1950s and 1960s to > perfect psychological torture techniques that were outsourced to > Vietnam, Argentina and other countries," they write. > > full: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/22589-academia-under-the-influence > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
