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Center for Study of Intelligence
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Abstract: seeks to promote study, debate, and understanding of the role of intelligence in American society. The site offers publications, case studies, a bulletin (updates), conference announcements, and information on educational outreach.
Central Intelligence Agency: Electronic Reading Room
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Abstract: is a place to find CIA records released or declassified under the Freedom of Information Act. The site includes information on privacy rights, legal news, and a regularly updated list of popular documents including those about UFOs, the Bay of Pigs, and human rights in Latin America.
Central Intelligence Agency Homepage for Kids
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Abstract: invites students to enter the Secret Zone and learn about history, geography, World Factbook, CIA canine corps, aerial photography pigeons, and more.
In the Mountains of New Mexico
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Abstract: At age twenty-seven, physicist Philip Morrison joined the Manhattan Project, the code name given to the U.S. government's covert effort at Los Alamos to develop the first nuclear weapon. The Manhattan Project was also the most expensive single program ever financed by public funds. In this video segment, ... More »
Inside the Oval Office
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Abstract: As staff secretary to President Dwight Eisenhower from 1954 to 1961, General Andrew Goodpaster was the person most privy to Eisenhower's thinking and key decisions during his White House years. Goodpaster began his long affiliation with Eisenhower as a staff officer under his leadership of the Supreme ... More »
Intelligence and Computers from the course Introduction to Computers
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Abstract: IDS 110: Introduction to Computers - Fall 2006. An introduction to computers and digital technology and culture. The conceptual foundations and functions of computer hardware and software. Structure and use of the Internet. Elements of programming for the World Wide Web. Students will complete a substantial ... More »
Introduction to Psychology, Fall 2004
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Abstract: This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love. The great controversies: nature and nurture, free will, consciousness, human differences, self and society. Students are exposed to the range of theoretical perspectives including biological, ... More »
Linkage and Arms Control
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Abstract: Henry Kissinger, U.S. national security adviser from 1969 to 1973 and then secretary of state until 1977, was the dominant figure in creating the foreign policy of the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations. This video segment deals with the concept of "linkage": interlocking U.S. arms-control ... More »
McNamara's Whiz Kid
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Abstract: Alain Enthoven, an MIT economist, was the country's first assistant secretary of defense for systems analysis from 1965 to 1969. In this video segment, Enthoven recounts how public interpretation of 'flexible response' strategy ran counter to both the administration's overriding goal-to prevent nuclear ... More »
People and Other Animals, Fall 2005
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Abstract: A historical survey of the ways that people have interacted with their closest animal relatives, for example: hunting, domestication of livestock, worship of animal gods, exploitation of animal labor, scientific study of animals, display of exotic and performing animals, and pet keeping. Themes include ... More »
Reading Seminar in Social Science: Intelligence and National Security, Fall 2005
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Abstract: This course will examine the origins, structure and functions of the U.S. Intelligence Community and its relationship to national security policy. It will look in some detail at the key intelligence agencies and the functions they perform, including collection, analysis, counterintelligence and covert ... More »
Space and Strategic Defense
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Abstract: Dean Rusk came from barefoot poverty in rural Georgia and achieved black-tie success. He was the first assistant secretary for UN Affairs, in 1949; assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern Affairs, in 1950; and the country's second-longest-serving secretary of state (1961 to 1969), after Cordell ... More »
The UQV (Ultimate Questioner's Vanity) Theory
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Abstract: The UQV theory is a metaphysical theory that the universe exists as the consequence of the ultimate questioner’s vanity. This theory builds on superultramodern solipsism, the position, which specifically regards the NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theoretical superhuman mind as a personal philosophical ... More »
