title: The Struggle Over Project Troy’s Successor: Economists and Other Social Scientists in the Making of MIT’s Center for International Studies
abstract: This paper provides a detailed account of the struggle over the Center for International Studies (CIS) and its mission. The center, a research institute established at MIT in the early 1950s, was an outgrowth of Project Troy, a 1950 top secret initiative devoted to the problem of “getting the truth behind the Iron Curtain.“ The paper attends to a single, curious fact about the CIS: The center’s intellectual agenda had very little to do with the propaganda questions that preoccupied the Troy part