Sherman Kent

Sherman Kent   (academic, spook)
Born	December 6, 1903
Died	March 11, 1986 (Age 82)
Nationality	US
Alma mater	The Thacher School, Yale
Parents	• William Kent • Elizabeth Thacher Kent
Siblings	• Roger Kent • Adaline Kent
Chief of Office of National Estimates In office 1952 - 1967 Employer CIA

Sherman Kent was a senior CIA intelligence analyst who headed the Office of National Estimates from January 1952 to December 1967.

Abram Shulsky and Gary Schmitt have criticised a view of intelligence as social science which they attribute to Kent:

If intelligence could reliably make the predictions implied in Kent's discussion, policy makers would indeed be foolish to ignore them, an their jobs would be made much easier. Kent's optimism on this point reflects the general optimism of the social sciences in the 1940s and 1950s.

Shulsky and Schmitt's interpretation of Kent's views has been strongly criticised by David Habakkuk.

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