Author Archives: Robert

Welcome to the new semester at Chi Nan!

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Robert

Another semester begins, and I hope all the students in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature had a pleasant first day. I’m looking forward to the semester, and to seeing all of you.

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“I have always had adequate sex that no one appreciated”: The best of Studies in Intelligence

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Robert

Taking a 10 minute pause from grading final exams, I would like to announce that the Warren will begin a new series introducing government funded fun and enlightenment from Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s in-house journal. While there is much … Continue reading →

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Chiang Kai-shek Meets Tu Yueh-sheng

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Robert

This note picks up from my last post on the sources and claims of Sterling Seagrave’s 1985 book, The Soong Dynasty (SD). SD enjoyed a fourteen-week run on the New York Times best-seller list and launched Seagrave’s career as a … Continue reading →

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Updating WordPress

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Robert

I finally got around to updating this site’s wordpress installation. The reason for the long delay was that the online updating process from wordpress was broken.  I had originally thought this was because I had used non-standard permissions in the … Continue reading →

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Two sources for the Weisberg Collection

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Robert

There are currently two places to get materials from the Weisberg collection. The main source is naturally the website that Hood College set up for the collection.  The second source is Archive.org. The Archive.org now has a “copy” of the … Continue reading →

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The Weisberg Collection

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Robert

While looking up some names from articles in Studies in Intelligence, I ran into another interesting on-line resource: the Harold Weisberg Archive, hosted at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. When a number of CIA names kept turning up at the … Continue reading →

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Notes on Studies in Intelligence

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Robert

I’ve read a bit more from and about Studies in Intelligence, the CIA’s in-house intelligence journal (not that much, put down that blindfold and cigarette).  A few random notes on this for today. The most interesting discovery was the SI … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the 2016 spring semester

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Robert

A new semester is starting, and I’ll be teaching some general education classes that I haven’t taught for a while.  Hope these are interesting for all of you who decided to enroll, I’m looking forward to meeting you!

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End of semester is here

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Robert

The fall semester of 2015 ends with a shiver! Grades are done and should be mailed to you on time this year. If you want a rough preview, check your Moodle class page grade report. Enjoy the snow up on … Continue reading →

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Idle reading

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Robert

I confess to reading stuff on the internet when I should be working. Before you drag me off and shoot me, try this site. What is this? It is a sortable index to every article that has been declassified from … Continue reading →

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