''Does this picture make me look guilty?''

[MADem]

18. GHW Bush went to university at a school that was commonly mined for intelligence assets.

Back in the day (and even to this day, but less so, now), the Ivies were a popular place to get the "right sort" of person for those jobs. They needed people who were at ease with the monied classes, because back then, you had to have money to travel. You needed to LOOK like you could afford to be where you were at. Average schmucks stuck out like sore thumbs, while rich people often went to the Continent for R and R.


I think you'd probably be more accurate if you cast your eye back a decade or two from where you're looking.


Some light reading: http://articles.courant.com/2004-08-15/news/0408150067_1_yale-students-yale-alumni-james-jesus-angleton


http://www.namebase.org/campus/henwood.html


http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2004/09/24/for-god-country-yale-and-the-cia/