History Forum / General / British History / January 2008

Speaking of CIA, here's a recent obit of a Yale University prof who wrote a
book about the CIA and taught many of our Presidents.  I don't think Hines
would like to see what the prof said of a couple of his favourite people:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/education/27westerfield.html?_r=1&ref=educatio
n&oref=slogin

January 27, 2008
H. Bradford Westerfield, Influential Yale Professor, Is Dead at 79
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
H. Bradford Westerfield, a Yale political scientist whose courses attracted
10,000 students, mostly undergraduates, among them President Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney, died on Jan. 19 in Watch Hill, R.I. He was 79.

The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease, his son, Leland Avery
Westerfield, said. H. Bradford Westerfield lived in Watch Hill and Hamden,
Conn.

Dr. Westerfield's former students in four decades of teaching, who also
included Senators John Kerry and Joseph I. Lieberman and assorted cabinet
officers, White House advisers and intelligence officials, often cited his
influence in framing their approach to public policy.

Mr. Cheney repeatedly said Dr. Westerfield helped shape his hard-line
approach to foreign policy. But an article in The Nation in 2004 reported
that Dr. Westerfield came to regret the hard-nosed lessons Mr. Cheney said
he had learned. Dr. Westerfield explained that his own politics had become
much more dovish since advocating uncompromising anticommunism in classes
Mr. Cheney attended, transformed in large part by America's troubles in the
Vietnam War.

Dr. Westerfield characterized the current Bush administration as overly
confrontational, calling that "precisely the wrong approach."

He was known for writing and teaching about foreign policy with a particular
emphasis on espionage, offering one of the first courses at any American
university on intelligence and covert operations, which students playfully
christened "Spies and Lies."

At his death, Dr. Westerfield was the Damon Wells Professor of International
Studies. He appreciated the fact that Mr. Wells had been his student, his
family said.

Holt Bradford Westerfield, a descendant of William Bradford, second governor
of Plymouth colony, was born on March 7, 1928, in Rome, where his father,
Ray Bert Westerfield, an economics professor at Yale, was on sabbatical.

The younger Dr. Westerfield graduated at 16 from the Choate School and at 19
from Yale, where he was president of the political union and the debate
association.

He earned his doctorate from Harvard, where he studied intelligence
services. His thesis became his first book, "Foreign Policy and Party
Politics: Pearl Harbor to Korea" (1955). He taught at Harvard and the
University of Chicago and spent a year studying Congress as a fellow of the
American Political Science Association.

In 1957, he joined Yale as an assistant professor of international
relations, and stayed there until his retirement in 2001. He later held
college teaching and research positions in England, Australia and the United
States.

His books included "The Instruments of America's Foreign Policy" (1963), and
selections from an internal publication of the Central Intelligence Agency,
which he edited as "Inside C.I.A.'s Private World: Declassified Articles
From the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-92" (1995). The C.I.A. chose him to
edit the book partly because he was independent of the agency.

Dr. Westerfield held several Yale administrative positions, including
director of undergraduate studies and director of graduate studies.

In 1960, he married the former Carolyn Elizabeth Hess, and the Rev. William
Sloane Coffin Jr., then the Yale chaplain, officiated at a communion service
held in conjunction with the marriage ceremony. Dr. Westerfield and Dr.
Coffin later engaged in lively debates on Vietnam, with Dr. Westerfield the
hawk and Dr. Coffin the dove. At the time, Dr. Westerfield said he was
worried about a communist takeover of the United States.

When he later rejected his more bellicose views, he said he had no regrets
for the earlier militancy. "I don't blame myself any longer for having
misled those students," he said in The Hartford Courant in 2003.

In addition to his wife and his son, Leland, who lives in Greenwich, Conn.,
Dr. Westerfield is survived by his daughter, Pamela Westerfield Bingham, of
Manhattan; his brother, Putney, of Hillsborough, Calif., and four
granddaughters.

Does the star represent one person or all people who
have been killed while operating covertly?  How many
stars without names are there?

Deirdre

What about foreign operatives? Are they normally placed on the Wall?