THINK TANKS AND USA POLITICS IN THE COUNTRIES OF "THE THIRD WORLD" AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 1960S
In article the influence of analytical centers on formation the USA policy in the countries of «the Third world» in the early 1960s is analyzed. The feature of analytical centers as links between the expert knowledge and political power is revealed. Special attention is paid to the reasons of expansion of the analytical centers’ influence by the reason of belonging of many members of the President Kennedy Administration to The Council on Foreign Relations and coming of the analysts from RAND Corporation to Pentagon. It is demonstrated that the main attention of analytical centers in that time was concentrated on the problem of full-scale intervention of the USA in Vietnam. K