In 1964, CIA analyst Peter Naffsinger wrote an article titled "'Face' among the Arabs" for the Agency's in-house journal Studies in Intelligence.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by CIA's own declassified document archive, a peer-reviewed academic citation, and the CIA's 50th-anniversary retrospective of Studies in Intelligence. All claim details align across primary and secondary sources.
Sources
- (W)Archives: CIA and the “Arab Mind” - War on the Rocks (warontherocks.com)
- https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Face-Among-the-Arabs.pdf (cia.gov)
- https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/archives/title-index (cia.gov)
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2014.949077 (tandfonline.com)
- https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Fifty-Years-Studies-Intel.pdf (cia.gov)