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...Roger Hilsman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs under Kennedy and Johnson, author of To Move a Nation, asserts: "The blunt truth is that the President knows very little that you and I don't know. And even that little extra is going to leak out sooner or later -more often sooner than later...
...very start of the information-gathering process, there are inevitable limits. The subjectivity of intelligence agents can easily lead them to ask different questions and thus get differing answers from what is before them, whether the subject is a Viet Cong prisoner or a pile of captured documents. Hilsman argues that the intelligence pipeline is further bent because even good data gathered in the field pass through many channels before arriving at their destination. If the information was not digested, of course, it would be unmanageable. So at each step, it is scrutinized, reinterpreted, perhaps expanded, more often cut down...
...together in Kirkland House for a section, but "there was really no meeting between us," May says. Two years later the course has not apparently changed character. Sorenson's Kennedy and Truman's memoirs are still on the reading list. Sherman Adams has been scrapped for Eisenhower and Roger Hilsman replaces Sam Huntington. The only major change in philosophy is in an optional reading list for Latin America, in which W. Apple-man Williams and a dollar diplomacy history are now included. So far this year, May says, the only person outraged by the course is a Foreign Service officer...
Besides Reischauer and Galbraith, the diplomat-sponsors of the executive group include Benjamin V. Cohen, former State Department counsellor and senior advisor to the U.S. delegation at the United Nations, and Roger Hilsman, former assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern affairs...
...rally was held at noon yesterday, featuring writers Conor Cruise O'Brien and Eric Bentley and folk-singer Phil Ochs. Among the professors who did not hold classes indoors today were James Shenton and Walter Metzger. Roger Hilsman, a Columbia professor and advisor to presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy '48, announced that he would be holding his class tomorrow at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...