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America the ambivalent: Quietly selling anthropology to the CIA
Author(s) -
PRICE DAVID H.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2005.00391.x
Subject(s) - citation , saint , ambivalence , anthropology , sociology , history , media studies , library science , art history , computer science , psychology , psychoanalysis
The Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP) is only one of a number of programmes in the US that are quietly shifting the recruitment of intelligence employees to the front end of the educational process by secretly sponsoring students studying languages, cultures and special skills of interest to intelligence agencies. Though this received timely press attention and criticism in anthropology publications in the UK, in particular through AT (20[4], 21[3-5]), in America coverage has been subdued and comparatively late (Gusterson et al. 2005, Price 2005a). However, the newly created Intelligence Community Scholars Program (ICSP) has escaped public notice even though it relies on the same basic levels of classroom secrecy as PRISP – though ICSP imposes much stiffer penalties for drop-outs, who must pay back scholarships with fines totalling three times the prevailing interest rate (see Price 2005b).