Assistant Professor at SPIA, Univ. of Pitt. Studying covert action, US FP, int'l security & int'l law. PhD from Princeton Politics, JD from Penn Law. Mom to Amelia & kitty cat crew. She/her.
Mindy Haas
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The FBI & CIA never found the Communist influence they claimed to seek — yet surveillance escalated anyway. Women's groups were targeted for what they symbolized, not what they did: a challenge to the patriarchal status quo embedded in national security.
4 cases, 4 strategies: the CIA co-opted the Committee of Correspondence, the FBI passively watched NOW, actively infiltrated radical WLM subgroups, and worked to dismantle Sojourners for Truth & Justice.
FBI Director Hoover called the Women's Liberation Movement a challenge to American values. His agents infiltrated potluck dinners and consciousness-raising sessions. They found nothing. But the paranoia they created helped bring down second-wave feminism anyway.
Last April, President Trump claimed tariffs would benefit the American economy in a big way. One year later, can you draw what really happened? Find out ⬇️ reut.rs/3Q9YMF7
Excited to present at two intelligence studies panels on Monday's #ISA2026.
First, at 8:15am, I'll present coauthored work on how U.S. intelligence agencies targeted women's groups differently across the first and second waves of feminism based on their usefulness to U.S. foreign policy goals.
"I am more terrified than [during] any of the previous national security crises since 2017 that Trump has been involved in," @profsaunders.bsky.social says on the pod. The lack of constraints on him this time are something new.
Listen to her extended warning here:
newrepublic.com/article/2087...
Second, at 4pm, I'll present a piece written for Intelligence and National Security's special issue on the Church Committee at 50 on what the assassination report can tell us about how the U.S. government recruited individuals for different roles in covert operations.
New article with Katie M. Whipkey out today in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social!
"Dangerously Provocative: Co-optation to Undermining of Women's Groups by U.S. Intelligence Agencies"
Free eprint: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TCQZN...
Since the 1950s, US military personnel traveling with the President have carried a special case best known as the nuclear “Football,” which includes information on emergency procedures, nuclear war plans, and communications arrangements with DOD and key allies. nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Just published on APSR First View: War and Responsibility by M. PATRICK HULME (@mphulme ) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Mindy Haas
Mindy Haas
Mindy Haas
This article examines how U.S. intelligence agencies, particularly the FBI and CIA, monitored and targeted women’s groups from the early 1900s to the 1970s as part of broader campaigns against Comm...
