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...wondering what it's like, I mean really like, to get up and go to work, just like that, at the CFIA...
...Professors Robert Bowie, Raymond Vernoh and Joseph Nye in the office of the Director of the Harvard Center for International Affairs (CFIA). I was drenched from riding my bike in the rain and my glasses were still dripping. Four comfortable chairs in a circle and three members of the Center's Executive Committee. Something fishy, I thought...
...radical today would say that the CFIA unconsciously disregards the big questions because of a preoccupation with, for example, game theory. Most would say that game theory is at once a way of aiding American foreign policy, as well as providing a mask for that aid. The point here is, however, that some behavioral scientists in 1954 sensed something wrong with the new scientific method, and wanted time to investigate its long-term perspectives. They did not for a minute doubt U.S. goals, but they realized that social science was becoming a whore...
...Vernon leaned over to Bob Bowie, and explained that I was voicing the criticism of those who thought that foreign policy was decided by a small group in the CIA. the Pentagon, the CFIA, and the White House. Then he smiled...
...CFIA Director Robert R. Bowic, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, said that no written complaints would be submitted to the Rights and Responsibilities committee until further evidence was obtained on any Harvard students who might have been involved. He did not rule out the possibility of written complaints to the committee if such evidence should become available...