Nadav Safran

David Rockefeller's sidekick Zbigniew Brzezinski, was critical of what he called the intellectual dissenter who sees his role largely in terms of proffering social critiques and instead thought that intellectuals should be experts and specialists who become involved in special governmental undertakings and generalist integrators who become in effect house ideologues for those in power.

Their Trilateral Commission colleague, Harvard's Samuel Huntington, similarly distinguished between what he called value-oriented and policy-oriented intellectuals, advocating for the latter.

The Ford Foundation, according to Professor Inderjeet Parmar, wanted to transplant into Chile an American model of the policy-oriented social scientist, one who could serve any mainstream political party or administration by providing quote-unquote objective advice.

The 1973 CIA coup against the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was named Operation Jakarta after the bloodbath in Indonesia, and it followed a similar model in that it was accompanied by the cultivation of Ford-funded US-trained economists.

One journalist wrote that lucrative Pentagon contracts and a close relationship with the CIA had already tied many universities closely to the national security apparatus, and many US professors had no qualms about doing research for the CIA and the Pentagon.

The Student Cooperative Union at the University of California objected that as long as the university functions as a service agency for the CIA, or as a cover for its quote unquote academic and propaganda purposes, any claim to the university's role as an open and democratic institution is farce.

In 1985, it emerged that Huntington and his colleague, Nadav Safran, director of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, were ongoing recipients of CIA funding.

the latter using that for funding a conference in 1986 without informing the attendees.

I wanna draw out two themes from what you've said there.

The one is to use Nadav Safran's famous phrase, the endless quest for security.

He was talking about Saudi Arabia in the 1970s and '80s and saying, "Literally everything that they do, whether it's about oil price or military purchases or whatever, is to stay in power.

It's only about staying in power.