| Abstract | Downloaded by [Marshall University] at 05:39 18 July 2013 This paper examines some of the interactions between anthropologists and America's National Security State during the Cold War. The Human Ecology Fund, an anthropological funding front used by the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1950s and 1960s, is discussed to elucidate one of the ways that the National Security State sponsored and consumed anthropological knowledge Clyde Kluckhohn's secret interactions with the FBI, State Department, and CIA are discussed to exemplify how some scholars covertly interacted with intelligence agencies during the Cold War. Finally, documents from anthropologist Melville Jacobs' troubles at the University of Washington for his Marxist political associations indicate ways in which radical anthropologists were persecuted. It is argued that despite the proclaimed end ofthe Cold War, many ofthe features of the National Security State arestill in place, as arenew interfaces between the military-intelligence agencies and the academy. |
