#ProjectTroy

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Hans Speier German-American sociologist who analyzed Nazi radio at the New School, ran German analysis at the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service, and from 1948 to 1960 directed the Social Science Division of the RAND Corporation.
Julius A. Stratton MIT physicist and provost who was president of MIT from 1959 to 1966, chairman of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1971, and chairman of the commission whose 1969 report recommended NOAA.
Max Millikan MIT economist, member of the Project Troy study group, assistant director of the CIA's Office of Research and Reports in 1951, and first director of MIT's Center for International Studies from 1952 to 1969.

Center for International Studies MIT research center set up in 1951 out of Project Troy, funded by the CIA until spring 1966, directed by Max Millikan until his death in 1969, then by Everett Hagen and Eugene Skolnikoff.
Psychological Strategy Board The Psychological Strategy Board, created by Truman's directive of April 4, 1951, coordinated national psychological operations until Executive Order 10483 abolished it on September 2, 1953.

Project Troy Project Troy was a 1950-51 MIT study of Soviet jamming and political warfare, reporting to the Secretary of State, whose February 1951 report proposed radio, balloon and elite-directed campaigns behind the Iron Curtain.