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    Artists\u27 Books Display - Works by CIA Community Members

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    Artists\u27 books from the collection of the Jessica R. Gund Memorial Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art and made by former and current CIA community members will be on display

    [9 letters between Donovan/CIA/Schmahl]

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    9 p.Box 1 A, Donovan papers, US AMHI, Carlisle Barracks; nine letters between Horace Schmahl, General William Donovan of the CIA and General W. G. Wyman of the CIA regarding Donovan's recommendation of Schmahl for work with Wyman and Schmahl's interest

    U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a public speech at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia

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    President Barack Obama delivers a public speech at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. President Obama discusses the importance of the CIA in national security and illustrates the changes the department has undergone since he came into office

    U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller speaks about his commission investigating the CIA and the FBI

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    U.S. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller says his commission investigating the CIA and the FBI will leave no stone unturned

    William Colby and Bella Abzug debate the propriety of CIA activities

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    William Colby and Representative Bella Abzug debate the propriety of the CIA file gathered on Ms. Abzug when she was a private citizen and the role of the CIA in political assassinations around the world. With reporter Daniel Schorr

    Bandwidth tax of uncertainty: Helping students reclaim cognitive capacity post-COVID and beyond

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    Cia Verschelden is Special Projects Advisor for the Integration of Academic and Student Affairs at the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She taught for over 25 years at two- and four-year institutions in social work, sociology, women's studies, nonviolence studies, and first-year seminar. Her administrative posts have included department chair, institutional assessment lead, and vice president of academic and student affairs. Her books 'Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism, and Social Marginalization' and 'Bandwidth Recovery for Schools: Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Trauma, Racism, and Social Marginalization' are available in the Douglas College Library. Bandwidth Recovery website: https://bandwidthrecovery.org/ In Cia's presentation, participants learn about several interventions designed to help students recover bandwidth, beginning with a strengths perspective about what skills and abilities they are bringing to the table – “funds of knowledge.” The interventions include values affirmation, connecting the known to the unknown, growth mindset, and high-hope syllabi.presentationBetter Together Conferenc

    The evolution of the cia's covert action mission, 1947-1963

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    The core contentions and departures of this study are that: (1) a three way delineation distinguished the basic types of operation that the CIA performed, between defensive, offensive, and preventive covert action; (2) the agency and its forerunner organisations anticipated government policy and initiated small-scale political clandestine operations during 1946 and 1947, ahead of being given official sanction for such activities; (3) the CIA's operations directorate played a more significant role as an instrument of wider strategic objectives, most notably during the Eisenhower years, than has hitherto been suggested; and (4) domestic politics had a strong impact on the development and deployment of CIA covert action, especially during the McCarthy era. Only by taking these factors into account can the early evolution of the CIA's operations directorate be fully understood

    CIA Director confirmation hearing

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    Gina Haspel, acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Former Senators Saxby Chambliss and Evan Bayh introduce Haspel to the Committee. Haspel talks about her thirty year career with the CIA and answers members' questions about her involvement in a controversial detention and interrogation program. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) chairs the committee

    [Appeal filed with CIA]

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    2 p.letter from Stephen Salant to CIA appealing the denial of access to records; Salant requests that the CIA search for files that NARA claims are not their legal property

    Sino-Indian border dispute, section 3: 1961-62, DD/I staff study, CIA/RSS, reference title Polo X V I.

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    This is the third in a series of three working papers on the Sino-Indian border dispute. This Section III deals with the period from early 1961 through the time of the most serious clashes in autumn 1962. An appendix discusses Sino-Pakistani border negotiations from 1960 to 1963
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