M.I.T.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT has strong links to the CIA.

The Center for International Studies
Opened in 1951, "The Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was originally financed by the Central Intelligence Agency, the institute indicated today."

From a 1964 article: "Two‐thirds of the center's operation is financed by such major foundations as Ford, Rockefeller and the Carnegie Corporation, according to the institute's formal statement. The remainder comes from research contracts with a variety of government agencies, including the C.I.A., the Agency for International Development, the State Department, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The roots of the Center came from a research project from MIT students and James Webb, an undersecretary of state at the time. "The project broadly involved technical difficulties with the jamming of American broadcasts through the Iron Curtain. This led to considerations of what to say in the broadcasts and moved into the fields of social and political problems. As a result, those involved agreed that it would be a good idea to have a “research bridge,” between scholars and operatives in the fields of foreign policy. The institute then formally established the center to do research for “a group of agencies represented on the National Security Council,” Professor Millikan said. He said the work was financed by a “classified agency.” The institute did not officially deny that the agency was the C.I.A.

The Center went on to continue doing US government work, including "''on problems concerning the economic and political development of emerging nations, the domestic and foreign policies of Communist states, international communications and United States foreign and military policies." ''As with many CIA projects, they moved towards private funding, since the Ford Foundation and other groups took over funding for these projects.

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