The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the major U.S. intelligence
agency during WW2. Its research branch consisted largely of conscientious
humanities and social science liberals from Harvard and Yale. Their sudden
access to international secrets, when mixed with inbred academic elitism,
proved quite compelling. By war's end, these opinion-makers had become
converts to OSS director William Donovan's vision of a postwar agency.
Despite Truman's reluctance, Donovan's old-boy network was formalized into
the CIA; the pipe-smoking liberal of the thirties became the cold warrior
of the fifties. It wasn't until the 1960s that the academic community
would begin to recover its social conscience.
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