82_28 wrote:.....
(I'm sure Hugh will have something to say about Harper's being CIA, but anyways, happy thanksgiving. . .)
Yup. From an old October 2008 RI thread-
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/view ... hp?t=20974
So the CIA is still working on the American intelligentsia to see things their way.
No doubt for the post-inauguration surge in Afghanistan and against future moves in Congress to restrict bad behavior by alphabet boys.
Guess college grads with health care and 401K's didn't go see this summer's Batman movie which introduced Game Theory 101 in the form of the classic 'Prisoner's Dilemma' to SweetTart-tingled 14-24 year-olds.
Spooks at The New Yorker like Jane Mayer and Lawrence Wright are working hard to bring around the dangerous reading demographic. Why not Harpers, too?
Regarding Harpers Magazine staff-
Lewis Lapham's brother, Anthony, was the CIA's lawyer during the Pike and Church Committee era.
wink wink nudge nudge.
http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/ ... ndex1.html
Can you say ['Paris] Review' and 'Congress of Cultural Freedom?'
I knew you could.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/obitu ... ref=slogin
Anthony A. Lapham, 70, Former C.I.A. Lawyer, Dies
Published: November 15, 2006
Anthony A. Lapham, who was the Central Intelligence Agency’s top lawyer in the 1970s when the agency was reeling from Congressional investigations into questionable and illegal activities, died on Nov. 11 near Burnsville, N.C. He was 70.
Mr. Lapham died of a heart attack while fishing for trout on the Cane River, his son Nicholas said.
Mr. Lapham, a quiet, modest man who preferred to work in the background, served two C.I.A. directors, George H. W. Bush in the Ford administration and Adm. Stansfield Turner in the Carter administration.
Mr. Bush, under scrutiny in 1975 as the first politician appointed to head the agency, searched to find someone outside the political and intelligence worlds. Mr. Lapham came from the Washington law firm Shea & Gardner, which was later absorbed by the firm Goodwin Procter, whose headquarters are in Boston.
President Bill Clinton chose his C.I.A. director, R. James Woolsey, from the same firm. Stephen J. Hadley, the current President Bush’s national security adviser, was also a partner there.
After news reports of C.I.A. misdeeds in 1974, President Gerald R. Ford the next year appointed a commission to analyze the agency, and the Senate and the House set up investigatory panels. They found that the agency had engaged in spying on Americans, plots to assassinate foreign leaders and other questionable activities.
Mr. Lapham began work on June 1, 1976, and quickly found himself atoning for the agency’s past sins. For example, he wrote letters to the University of Pennsylvania and other universities accepting responsibility for C.I.A. research on mind control on their campuses in the 1950s.
In March 1977, he sent a memorandum to congressmen and policy makers urging care in rewriting laws governing intelligence leaks. He pointed out that the phrase “information relating to national intelligence” could mean vital military secrets or something as simple as daily stock market reports. He also argued for precision in defining who and what should be covered by the law, and for prompt and independent review of any questions raised.
He said the agency favored “a narrower and more discriminating approach.”
In a statement yesterday, Michael V. Hayden, the current director of the C.I.A., praised Mr. Lapham’s contributions “during a period of momentous change and challenges for the agency.”
Anthony Abbot Lapham was born on Aug. 22, 1936, in San Francisco. His father, Lewis A. Lapham, was president of several shipping companies and of the Bankers Trust New York Corporation, and helped create the professional golf tour.
Anthony Lapham graduated from Yale and earned a law degree from Georgetown. He moved to Washington and worked as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia and then for the Treasury Department in its enforcement area.
While doing those two jobs, he served in Army intelligence and then in a legal unit in the Navy, sometimes on active duty but mostly in the Reserves. Nicholas Lapham said his father had entered the Navy after fulfilling his Army duty because he enjoyed being in the military.
In 1967, Mr. Lapham joined Shea & Gardner, and he became a partner three years later. He returned there after his C.I.A. tenure.
His great enthusiasm was conservation, and he was recently elected chairman of American Rivers, which works to protect river systems. He was a past chairman of the Ocean Conservancy.
After his time at the C.I.A., as a private lawyer, [b]Mr. Lapham represented figures including Adolfo Calero, leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, a contra group;]the chief paymaster for the brutal government of Charles Taylor, [/bthe former Liberian president; and his own former boss, Admiral Turner, who sued the C.I.A. for heavily censoring a book he had written.
Mr. Lapham is survived by his wife, the former Burk Bingham; his sons Nicholas P. and David A. Lapham; his brother, Lewis H. Lapham, editor of the history journal Lapham’s Quarterly and a former editor of Harper’s Magazine; and two grandsons.
This April, in an interview with The New York Times, Anthony Lapham revisited the issue of leaks of government secrets, coming down on both sides of a complex question. He judged the debate over measures used by intelligence agencies to fight terrorism so important that it justified the leaking of knowledge of the measures’ existence. But he could not bring himself to approve of the leakers themselves.
“There’s a premise that it’s O.K. for someone to leak because they’re serving a higher purpose, a higher loyalty,” he said. “Well, the next thing you know, you have a whole building full of people with a higher loyalty, each to a different principle. And pretty soon you don’t have a functioning intelligence agency.”
