THE HISTORIAN AS FOREIGN POLICY ANALYST: THE CHALLENGE OF THE CIA

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01~1 PAGE,5_ 7 THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN
Winter 1981
't'he Historian as Fore:
Policy analyst: the
challenge of the C1 -
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neither CIA authentication of material presented as factual nor a CIA endorsement
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1. The concept is taken from Otis L. Graham, Jr., "Historians and the World of
(Of Campus) Power," The Public Historian, Volume I, Number 2 (Winter 1979),
34.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS and the institutions of Ameri
policy have been engaged in increasingly fruitful relai
years since AVorld War II. Just as individuals like Geo:
and Herbert Feis have linked the worlds of diplomacy and his-
torical research, so the profession has established institutional
beachheads"1 in the historical offices of the Department of State,
the military services, and in smaller numbers, the Departments of
Defense and Energy. In these offices historians working as his-
torians have applied rigorous scholarly standards in editing pri-
mary sources, most notably the Foreign Relations of the United
? This paper is a revised version of a talk presented at the annual meeting of the
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, University of Southern
Q 1981 by the Regents of the University of California
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