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Clay Katsky

Clay Silver Katsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas – Austin and a graduate fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. Clay received his B.A. from Pace University in New York City and did his M.A. at George Washington University while interning as a FOIA analyst at the National Security Archive. He studies U.S. foreign policy and specializes in Congress, the C.I.A., and U.S.-Latin American relations. Clay’s dissertation is on intelligence oversight by Congress. He argues that intelligence reform in the 1970s was intended to go beyond the establishment of congressional intelligence committees, but the process was derailed by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Clay spent the 2020-21 academic year in Washington, DC as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, part of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.