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clip - Police officials showed markedly less interest in lessons on law-enforcement practice than in technical instruction on the massive quantities of small arms, vehicles, radios, handcuffs, fingerprint kits and other U.S.-funded police equipment that the MSU group procured and dispensed. This raised an obvious question: In *Ramparts’ *words, “What the hell is a university doing buying guns, anyway?” For a university to provide such systematic cover may have been unusual, but academe was one of many institutions, including the Fourth Estate, that the CIA penetrated during the Cold War. It recruited or placed dozens, probably hundreds of operatives as foreign correspondents and stringers. In 1977, the* New York Times *identified <https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/27/archives/cia-established-many-links-to-journalists-in-us-and-abroad-cias.html> more than 30 who had worked at 22 major media outlets, including CBS, *Time *and, naturally, the* New York Times*. Since then, Michigan State has undergone a collective process of self-examination over its role in Vietnam. In 1998, its university press released Ernst’s *Forging a Fateful Alliance*, the most complete history published of the MSU Group. Formerly assailed for packing its Vietnam records away uncatalogued, the university has since digitized more than 80,000 documents and posted them online <http://vietnamproject.archives.msu.edu/>. Any academic or intellectual tempted to enlist in future U.S. efforts to remake other nations would do well to consult both. full article - https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/03/25/vietnam-war-secret-msu-michigan-state-217705?lo=ap_f1 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
