Introduction
Holcomb, Michael
In this issue we concentrate on the dynamics of a single institution, the Institute of International Education. We first ran across the IIE while researching non-profit organizations, such as the...
...WIhen we obtained the IIE's promotional material, we realized the importance of doing this analysis...
...They recognize -- abroad as well as at home -- that education offers the best means for stimulating purchasing power, encouraging political stability, and most important of all, developing a resevoir or the trained manpow.er so necessary to their overseas operations...
...Morris Hadley is an IIE trustee...
...The IIE is the crucial the Government, corporations and poThe IIE is the administrative coordinator for a huge array of cultural-educational programs...
...Other articles describe a computerized intelligence roster of corporate personnel around the worlu and an intent to mold Latin American universities into knowledge factories...
...are also necessary because of their contacted two-way linl between students, universities, tential markets and sources of raw materialE the native culture -- language, mores Skilled indigenous managerial elites s and experience...
...Our economic system, especially after World War II, must produce more than can be consumed domestically in order to sustain profits and maintain high employment...
...Another trustee is Mrs...
...In the last decade, U.S...
...To efficiently administer an empire, the United States needs adinistraNACLA -. 1494SLETTER-- 2 tors...
...It also illustrates the merger of public and private ana lack of distinction between government and large foundation sponsorship by showing some of the links between the Ford Foundation and the Agency for International Development (AID...
...Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., whose husband is president of the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs (FYSA), principal conduit for CIA funds to the National Student Association...
...In this series of articles we have tried to illustrate the political ends of the IIE by describing some of the programs it administers and the political implications of those specific programs...
...The IIE is an integral part of the U.S...
...It emphasizes student exchange because the lIE administrators recognize the political nature of education and are clear about the political intent of the IIE...
...corporate presence overseas...
...officials who are proficient in history -- must be posted around the world...
...To understand the IIE we must examine the wider context in which it operates...
...We first ran across the IIE while researching non-profit organizations, such as the Rubicon Foundation, that are conduits for CIA money...
...corora".ons have expanded their direct foreign investments by 60 per cent -- to $40 billion at the end of 1963...
...In a promotional pamhlet "Services for the International Corporation", the IIE explains its usefulness to the corporate elite...
...The expansion of the Urnted States' expire is directly a function of this economy's need for markets to absorb excess production and its needs for supplies of strategic raJ materials...
...With programs that extend to dozens of countries, the IIE is one of the prototypes of US cultural imperialism...
...The series begins with a discussion of the political content of student exchange itself and closes with an analysis of the IIE trustees, people typical of the elite that benefits from what the IIE does...
...We discovered that Mrs...
...The article about Michigan State University's overseas involvement details a great variety of programs...
...Her husband is head of the Rubicon Foundation...
Vol. 1 • December 1967 • No. 9
