Word: corson
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Vast amounts of money were and are dispensed to buy, bribe or bully the loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student...
Sources within the agency estimate about 5,000 American academics now work for the CIA and many participate in the screening committees to choose 200-300 foreign students each year. These students are then persuaded or compelled--often by highly irregular means--to serve the CIA. Corson suggests 60 per cent of the academics are fully aware of their employer; the remaining 40 per cent believe they are selecting students for careers with a multinational firm--a perfect case of the CIA exploiting unwitting faculty members...
...will give business leaders and consumers confidence that Carter intends to be tough in defending the dollar and fighting inflation, so that they will go on buying and investing. That view has some support even among businessmen who concede that the new program will cause them some trouble. Robert Corson, treasurer of Foxboro Co., a Massachusetts maker of controlling and recording instruments, warned his collection agents that they may have to lean harder on customers to pay their bills: "People try to get free credit out of their suppliers when it gets harder to borrow elsewhere." Nonetheless, he says, "people...
William H. Corson...
...While Corson yesterday failed to comment specifically on the Parker case, he did say Parker's "professional employment since 1972 has been marked by a series of difficulties...