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...host is a actor, singer and composer who specializes in salsa, an Afro-Caribbean folk style of performance. Blades received a Master's degree from Harvard Law School in 1985, and the same year won a Grammy award for Best Album. He has also starred in several American films, including Crossover Dreams, Fatal Beauty, and most recently. The Milagro Beanfield War, which is scheduled for release this year...
...interview last week Steve Singer, spokesman for the Kennedy School, described the purpose behind the program: CIA men "may understand the intricacies of how decisions are made in Bulgaria, but not at all in Washington...
According to the Kennedy School, we should be happy that CIA agents are getting a Harvard education. Singer describes the benefits of CIA training, by drawing a comparison between the fall of the Shah in Iran and the fall of Marcos in the Philippines. The U.S. government never acted on its knowledge that the Shah was weak, but the government put information to good use in formulating policy towards the Philippines when deciding when to back away from Marcos and support Aquino...
...course, Singer is right. More intelligent use of information--in the right hands--can improve U.S. foreign policy. However, the beauty of methodological knowledge is that it is value-neutral--and can serve both good or evil ends. After all, Alfred Nobel invented dynamite to build train tunnels...
...Kennedy School is training the CIA to use its intelligence more effectively. Who's to say the CIA won't use this training to push through more operations like the Iran-contra scam? Singer claims that this reasoning is a "redherring." But the salient issue in CIA training is that the CIA often pursues unsavory foreign policy initiatives, like the Iran-contra scam and the overthrow of Allende in Chile in 1973. The CIA is not just another government agency--it deserves extremely close scrutiny...