Harvard.
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it’s a good question and likely buried in the archives. My guess is that they’d hope to turn him into an asset, or, worst case scenario, that he was an asset. The goal of the CIA is to turn any ideology, concept, or idea into an asset, including decolonization.
The world is a complicated mess and an organization like the CIA is looking for leverage wherever they can find it, because they see it as critical to their control of the world. But they miss that trying to control the world is an impossible task.
They knew he was accurate on decolonization, and they were desperate to control decolonization. But how do you control such a chaotic situation? You can’t. It involves several empires, hundreds regions, thousands of individual groups, etc. But trying to control someone who so accurately describes the events happening would be a coup. The goal of the the CIA is not to silence points of view, it’s to link American ideology to them, and to colonize those points of view. In doing so, they can claim a variety of positions, and can pin themselves to the one that won.
"If an officer is not happy to visit then how do members of the public feel?” he told the hearing.
Relieved?