My youngest brother went to Yale. After his junior year he interned for a semester with a British Labour MP, Dale Campbell-Savers. A left-wing MP accused the American interns (not just from Yale) of working for the CIA. My brother was interviewed by Sir Robin Day on his radio program about this accusation. He found the whole incident to be funny.

My brother would make a terrible CIA agent since he's such a lousy liar.

Recruiting intelligence agents at Yale makes sense. It's a much more creativity-friendly place than that obscure prep school on the Charles. My brother wrote a wonderful senior thesis about Yale in the American Revolution. It had lots of funny stories of food fights and hormone-driven adolescent pranks and delinquency that got politically channeled as inchoate dissent turned into open and organized rebellion.

The OSS, and the early CIA after it, like MI6, understood it needed the Ian Fleming-like kind of amateur creative talent that created Operation Mincemeat.