Karen M. Paget is an American political scientist, from Boulder, Colorado, United States. She is the author of non-fiction books. Her work appears at The American Prospect.^[1]

She holds a doctorate from the University of Colorado and a M.A. in International Relations.^[2]

She is the author of the book Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism, launched in March 2015.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

After more than a decade of research, Karen Paget gathered archival sources, declassified documents, and interviews, showing that the National Student Association story published by Ramparts, was just part of a bigger CIA operation. ^{[citation needed]}

• Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015, ISBN 9780300205084, OCLC 887450741
• Linda Witt; Karen M Paget; Glenna Matthews, Running as a Woman: Gender and Power The Free Press, 1993, ISBN 9780029203156, OCLC 478789879

External videos
C-SPAN.org: Book Discussion Patriotic Betrayal - Video - C-SPAN.org, accessdate: 3/28/2015

• https://karenmpaget.com/