In 1986 some sleepy Georgetown University officials finally looked at CSIS, curious about what the 140 fellows and their supporting staff had been doing for the last 24 years. For sure, CSIS was almost militaristic and they played the major media like a piano. In 1985 alone they proudly counted 4,100 contacts -- TV appearances, op-ed pieces, and quotations in news stories. But was it academic? So Georgetown severed all ties, and it didn't even slow CSIS down. With independent financing (the $8 million budget is raised from Scaife, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, and some Saudis), CSIS pundits and talking heads were back in force during the Gulf War.
In the 1970s, the issue for students was the intelligence connections
of numerous CSIS fellows; at that time Ray Cline was their Director of
Studies. Some of his shady colleagues were still at CSIS in the 1980s:
George Carver, Penelope Hartland-Thunberg, Michael Ledeen, Walter Laqueur,
as well as heavies like Edward Luttwak, James Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger,
and Zbigniew Brzezinski. They harmonized well with interventionist U.S.
policymakers. And under the cover of disinterested scholars, they were
able to play their monotonous tunes at a much greater volume.
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