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‘Spies and lies’ prof. Westerfield ’47 dies

Contributing Reporter
Published Wednesday, January 30, 2008

H. Bradford Westerfield ’47, professor of political science and the Damon Wells Professor Emeritus of International Studies, died Jan. 19 in Watch Hill, RI. He was 79.

During his roughly 40 years at Yale, Westerfield taught numerous future foreign-policy heavyweights, including President George W. Bush ’68, Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA director Porter Goss ’60. Also among his pupils were a number of current and former journalists, U.S. senators, a secretary of defense and two directors of the CIA.

Westerfield, who earned a reputation among his colleagues as an...

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