... This chapter considers how, after the nationalization of the oil industry and amid the divisions of the cold war, processes of state formation and popular struggle entered a new phase. The institutional state, rather than a foreign corporation, became the target of discontent, and new social...

...Archives and Counterinsurgency in Cold War Guatemala ...

...Cold War Political-Economic Disciplinary Formations Detailing shifts in American strategy and approaches to intelligence and covert action during the post–World War II period, this chapter traces the rise of the CIA as a covert arm of the presidency, and the rise of national security state...

... and congressional investigations of the 1960s and 1970s, details of CIA’s secretive use of social scientists are compiled for an overview of how Cold War scholarship at times served the needs of state. anthropological funding military anthropology CIA anthropology CIA history Cold War economy Pentagon...

... During the years after the war, many anthropologists transformed elements of their wartime service into governmental research, policy, development, or intelligence work. The U.S. State and Defense Departments at times drew on anthropological expertise to implement foreign aid projects...

... Most of the anthropologists who worked for the CIA during the 1950s had worked for the Office of Strategic Services or engaged in intelligence work at other agencies during the Second World War. During the 1950s, several anthropologists worked as analysts within the CIA, while others undertook...