Word: langer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another professor with a "checkered career" has returned to the fold. William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, is back to teaching after spending a year in Washington as assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...went down there very suddenly in November of 1950," Langer said yesterday, "to organize the office of national estimate in the C.I.A." His job was one of "co-ordination"--coordinating the various estimates from our different intelligence agencies...
...Langer was a member of the board of analysts, Office of Coordinator of Information. As a civilian, he next became chief of the Research and Analysis Branch, O.S.S. (Office of Strategic Services), which "involved using all the intelligence coming into the government to work out specific policy in government or military plans...
...Langer said the difference between his work for the O.S.S. and C.I.A. was that in the latter "I wasn't so much concerned with research--rather to pull together the results of all the various agencies...
There has also been a noticeable change in faculty over the years. When the school began, the faculty was made up almost entirely of Harvard professors on a one-course basis. Harvard contributed William Y. Elliott. Arthur N. Holcombe, Carl J. Freidrich, Seymour Harris, William Langer, Joseph A. Schumpeter and President Conant...