November 22, 2021
Nicholas Dujmovic, Clinical Assistant Professor of Intelligence Studies, Dept. of Politics, and a former C.I.A. historian, said there was a precedent for “taking employees from another government agency and quickly making them C.I.A. employees for specific functions.”
In the 1950s, the C.I.A. transformed U.S. Air Force pilots into C.I.A. employees during their stints flying U-2 spy planes and then returned them to the Air Force without the loss of seniority or benefits. “President Eisenhower thought it was important that U-2s not be piloted by U.S military pilots,” Dr. Dujmovic said. The process was called “sheep dipping,” he said.
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