| 1964-12-31 | Bracero Program Ends After 22 Years - Farm Wages Immediately Jump 40% U.S. Congress · United Farm Workers · Labor reformers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1964-11-21 | FBI Mails Anonymous Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr., Weaponizing Surveillance Material J. Edgar Hoover · William C. Sullivan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1964-11-03 | AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign William J. Baroody Sr. · American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · +4 | 7 |
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| 1964-09-03 | Wilderness Act Signed After Eight Years of Industry Opposition, Creates National Wilderness Preservation System President Lyndon B. Johnson · Howard Zahniser · Wilderness Society · +3 | 6 |
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| 1964-09-01 | Segregation Academies Proliferate as White Families Flee Integrated Public Schools With Public Subsidies White Citizens' Councils · Southern state legislatures · Jerry Falwell Sr. · +1 | 4 | |
| 1964-08-10 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Signed: LBJ Receives Advance Blank-Check War Authorization, Template for Post-9/11 AUMF Lyndon B. Johnson · Wayne Morse · Ernest Gruening · +3 | 6 |
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| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation President Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1964-07-02 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes After Filibuster Defeats Corporate Southern Resistance President Lyndon B. Johnson · Southern Democratic Senators · Richard Russell · +3 | 6 |
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| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration James Chaney · Andrew Goodman · Michael Schwerner · +7 | 10 |
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| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History Southern Democratic Caucus · Richard Russell · Robert Byrd · +2 | 5 | |
| 1964-05-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Publishes 'A Choice Not an Echo,' Launching Conservative Movement Infrastructure Phyllis Schlafly · Barry Goldwater · John Birch Society · +1 | 4 | |
| 1964-01-23 | 24th Amendment Ratified Abolishing Poll Tax in Federal Elections After Decades of Voter Suppression U.S. Congress · State Legislatures · Civil rights movement | 3 | |
| 1964-01-01 | Goldwater Presidential Campaign Mobilizes Business Coalition and Establishes Conservative Infrastructure Barry Goldwater · John M. Ashbrook · William A. Rusher · +3 | 6 | |
| 1963-12-17 | Clean Air Act of 1963 Establishes First Federal Air Pollution Control Despite Industry Opposition President John F. Kennedy · President Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 |
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| 1963-10-18 | Hoover Personally Briefs Johnson with King Sex-Surveillance Dossier, Weaponizing Personal Material Against Civil Rights Leader J. Edgar Hoover · Lyndon B. Johnson · William C. Sullivan · +2 | 5 |
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| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. J. Edgar Hoover · Robert F. Kennedy · Martin Luther King Jr. · +2 | 5 |
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| 1963-09-15 | KKK Bombs 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Killing Four Young Girls Ku Klux Klan · Robert Chambliss · Thomas Blanton · +2 | 5 | |
| 1963-08-28 | March on Washington Draws 250,000 for Jobs and Freedom as MLK Delivers I Have a Dream Speech Martin Luther King Jr. · Bayard Rustin · A. Philip Randolph · +2 | 5 | |
| 1963-08-01 | Business-Industry Political Action Committee Founded as First Corporate PAC Business-Industry Political Action Committee · National Association of Manufacturers · BIPAC | 3 |
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| 1963-05-03 | Bull Connor Orders Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Against Children in Birmingham Campaign Bull Connor · Martin Luther King Jr. · James Bevel · +2 | 5 | |
| 1962-12-31 | William Volker Fund Closes After Financing Chicago School and Mont Pelerin Society William Volker Fund · Harold Luhnow · Hoover Institution · +7 | 10 | |
| 1962-10-10 | Thalidomide Scandal Drives Kefauver-Harris Amendment Strengthening FDA Drug Safety Requirements Senator Estes Kefauver · Representative Oren Harris · President John F. Kennedy · +3 | 6 | |
| 1962-09-30 | Cesar Chavez Founds NFWA, Begins Farmworker Organizing Campaign Cesar Chavez · Dolores Huerta · National Farm Workers Association · +1 | 4 | |
| 1962-09-27 | Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring, Chemical Industry Launches Coordinated Attack Campaign Rachel Carson · Monsanto · American Cyanamid · +2 | 5 |
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| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying Cecil R. King · Clinton Anderson · John F. Kennedy · +6 | 9 |
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| 1962-01-17 | Kennedy Executive Order 10988 Grants Federal Workers Collective Bargaining Rights John F. Kennedy · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Federal employees · +1 | 4 |
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| 1962-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Establishes Defense Committee and Hires First Full-Time President National Association of Manufacturers · Werner P. Gullander · National Defense Committee | 3 |
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| 1961-05-14 | Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention Congress of Racial Equality · Bull Connor · Robert Kennedy · +2 | 5 | |
| 1961-04-17 | Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails: CIA Proprietary Company Model Exposed in Catastrophic Covert Operation CIA · Allen Dulles · Richard Bissell · +2 | 5 |
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| 1961-01-17 | President Eisenhower's Farewell Address Warns Against Military-Industrial Complex Dwight D. Eisenhower · Malcolm Moos · Ralph Williams · +1 | 4 | |
| 1961-01-01 | AMA Launches Operation Coffee Cup with Reagan Recording to Defeat Medicare Through Grassroots Deception American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · Loyal Davis · +1 | 4 | |
| 1960-05-06 | Civil Rights Act of 1960: Voting Referees and Criminal Penalties Still Prove Inadequate Against Southern Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Lyndon B. Johnson · +2 | 5 |
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| 1960-02-01 | Greensboro Four Launch Sit-In Movement at Woolworth Lunch Counter Challenging Segregation Ezell Blair Jr. · David Richmond · Franklin McCain · +2 | 5 | |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors F. Edward Hebert · House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics · +1 | 4 |
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| 1960-01-01 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion | 2 |
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| 1959-09-14 | Landrum-Griffin Act Imposes Federal Restrictions on Union Internal Operations U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Labor · Labor unions · +2 | 5 |
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| 1959-06-26 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors · Virginia General Assembly · Harry Byrd | 3 | |
| 1959-06-02 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes All Public Schools for Five Years Rather Than Integrate Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors · Prince Edward County School Board · Virginia political establishment | 3 | |
| 1959-05-29 | Congress Passes NSA Act of 1959 (P.L. 86-36) Exempting NSA From Disclosure of Its Own Functions 86th Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · National Security Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence U.S. Congress · General Omar Bradley · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | 4 |
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| 1958-12-05 | NAM Executive VP Charles Sligh Calls for Business Political Mobilization to Build Conservative Coalition Charles R. Sligh Jr. · National Association of Manufacturers | 2 | |
| 1958-11-04 | AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory AFL-CIO · National Right to Work Committee · California voters · +5 | 8 | |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan · +2 | 5 |
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| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank John M. Olin Foundation · Central Intelligence Agency · John M. Olin | 3 |
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| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration Orval Faubus · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Little Rock Nine · +2 | 5 | |
| 1957-09-09 | Civil Rights Act of 1957: First Federal Voting Rights Law Since Reconstruction Passes Despite Southern Filibuster Dwight D. Eisenhower · Lyndon B. Johnson · Strom Thurmond · +3 | 6 |
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| 1957-07-08 | Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure J. Edgar Hoover · Helen Gandy · Clyde Tolson · +1 | 4 |
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| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · +2 | 5 | |
| 1957-06-01 | MKULTRA Subproject 68 Funds Ewen Cameron Psychic Driving Experiments at McGill Donald Ewen Cameron · Central Intelligence Agency · Sidney Gottlieb · +2 | 5 | |
| 1957-03-01 | Indiana Passes Right-to-Work Law, So Unpopular It's Repealed Within Eight Years Indiana General Assembly · Republican Party · Democratic Party · +2 | 5 |
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| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory Martin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · E.D. Nixon · +4 | 7 | |
| 1956-09-21 | Virginia Enacts Massive Resistance Laws Authorizing School Closures to Prevent Integration Harry F. Byrd · Thomas Bahnson Stanley · Virginia General Assembly · +1 | 4 | |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA | 3 |
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| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Bureau of Public Roads · +4 | 7 |
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| 1956-03-29 | Mississippi Creates State Sovereignty Commission for Civil Rights Surveillance and Segregationist Funding Mississippi Legislature · Ross Barnett · Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission · +1 | 4 | |
| 1956-03-12 | Southern Manifesto Signed by 101 Congressmen Pledging Resistance to School Integration Walter F. George · Harry F. Byrd · Strom Thurmond · +2 | 5 | |
| 1956-02-06 | University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred Autherine Lucy · University of Alabama · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | 6 | |
| 1956-01-01 | White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination White Citizens' Councils · Tom P. Brady · Ross Barnett · +2 | 5 | |
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership George Meany · Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · +2 | 5 | |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks · Martin Luther King Jr. · Montgomery Improvement Association · +2 | 5 | |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House George Hunter White · Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 | 4 | |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · +1 | 4 | |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +2 | 5 |
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| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon Wesley Fishel · Michigan State University · CIA · +1 | 4 |
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| 1955-01-01 | National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying Fred A. Hartley · National Right to Work Committee · Corporate funders · +1 | 4 |
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| 1954-12-02 | Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror Joseph McCarthy · Ralph Flanders · Arthur Watkins · +1 | 4 | |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · +2 | 5 | |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Urban Renewal Administration · +2 | 5 |
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| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration Robert B. Patterson · Tom P. Brady · White Citizens' Councils · +2 | 5 | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · +5 | 8 |
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| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations Dwight D. Eisenhower · Joseph May Swing · Herbert Brownell · +1 | 4 | |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · +1 | 4 | |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +1 | 4 | |
| 1954-04-22 | Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin as Military Charges Senator with Improper Pressure for Aide Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · Robert Stevens · +4 | 7 | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · +2 | 5 | |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated John Bricker · Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · +3 | 6 | |
| 1954-01-01 | Eisenhower Convenes Business Leaders to Create Public Affairs Council for Political Mobilization Dwight D. Eisenhower · Public Affairs Council · Effective Citizens Organization | 3 | |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · +2 | 5 | |
| 1953-10-30 | Eisenhower Approves New Look Defense Policy - Cuts Military Budget by One-Third Despite Pentagon Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · John Foster Dulles · Robert B. Carney · +2 | 5 | |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship Central Intelligence Agency · Kermit Roosevelt Jr. · Allen Dulles · +6 | 9 |
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| 1953-08-13 | Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · Government Contract Committee · +1 | 4 | |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · Roy Cohn · +5 | 8 |
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| 1953-04-16 | Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" Speech - Every Gun Made Is a Theft From Those Who Hunger Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1 | |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | 3 | |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · +2 | 5 |
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| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion Charles Erwin Wilson · Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · +2 | 5 |
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| 1953-01-01 | FCC Adopts Seven-Station Rule Limiting Broadcast Ownership to Prevent Media Monopoly and Ensure Viewpoint Diversity Federal Communications Commission | 1 | |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets CIA · Frank Wisner · Cord Meyer · +2 | 5 |
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| 1952-11-04 | Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years Harry S. Truman · Ralph Canine · National Security Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1952-06-27 | McCarran-Walter Act Imposes Racialized Immigration Quotas Over Truman Veto - 85% for Europeans Pat McCarran · Francis E. Walter · Harry S. Truman · +2 | 5 | |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Robert H. Jackson · +5 | 8 |
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| 1952-04-08 | Truman Issues Executive Order 10340 Seizing Nation's Steel Mills; Sets Up Steel Seizure Case Harry S. Truman · Charles Sawyer · United Steelworkers of America · +2 | 5 | |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals · Studio executives · House Un-American Activities Committee · +3 | 6 |
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| 1951-12-06 | Truman Commissions Brownell Committee to Investigate AFSA Failure, Blueprint for NSA Created Harry S. Truman · George Brownell · Armed Forces Security Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics Electric Boat · General Dynamics Corporation · John Jay Hopkins · +2 | 5 | |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · +2 | 5 |
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| 1951-04-01 | Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues Hollywood Ten · Dalton Trumbo · Ring Lardner Jr. · +3 | 6 | |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · +3 | 6 | |
| 1951-03-12 | Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed Estes Kefauver · U.S. Senate · Frank Costello · +1 | 4 | |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale CIA · Allen Dulles · MIT · +3 | 6 |
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