Spy Schools: How The Cia, Fbi, And Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
by Daniel Golden /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how
academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic
espionage―and why that is troubling news for our nation's
security and democratic values.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how
academia has become a major target of foreign and domestic
espionage―and why that is troubling news for our nation's
security and democratic values.
Grounded in extensive research and reporting,
Grounded in extensive research and reporting,Spy Schools
Spy Schools
reveals that globalization―the influx of foreign students and
professors and the outflow of Americans for study, teaching, and
conferences abroad―has transformed U.S. higher education into a
front line for international spying. In labs, classrooms, and
auditoriums, intelligence services from countries like China,
Russia, and Cuba seek insights into U.S. policy, recruits for
clandestine operations, and access to sensitive military and
civilian research. The FBI and CIA reciprocate, tapping
international students and faculty as informants. Universities
ignore or even condone this interference, despite the tension
between their professed global values and the nationalistic
culture of espionage.
reveals that globalization―the influx of foreign students and
professors and the outflow of Americans for study, teaching, and
conferences abroad―has transformed U.S. higher education into a
front line for international spying. In labs, classrooms, and
auditoriums, intelligence services from countries like China,
Russia, and Cuba seek insights into U.S. policy, recruits for
clandestine operations, and access to sensitive military and
civilian research. The FBI and CIA reciprocate, tapping
international students and faculty as informants. Universities
ignore or even condone this interference, despite the tension
between their professed global values and the nationalistic
culture of espionage.
Taking advantage of patriotic fervor and fear in the wake of
9/11, the CIA and other security agencies have infiltrated almost
every aspect of academic culture and enlist professors, graduate
students, and even undergraduates to moonlight as spies. Golden
uncovers shocking campus activity―from the CIA placing agents
undercover in Harvard Kennedy School classes and staging academic
conferences to persuade Iranian nuclear scientists to defect, to
a Chinese graduate student at Duke University stealing research
for an invisibility cloak, and a tiny liberal arts college in
Marietta, Ohio, exchanging faculty with China’s most notorious
spy school―to show how relentlessly and ruthlessly both U.S. and
foreign intelligence services are penetrating the ivory tower.
Taking advantage of patriotic fervor and fear in the wake of
9/11, the CIA and other security agencies have infiltrated almost
every aspect of academic culture and enlist professors, graduate
students, and even undergraduates to moonlight as spies. Golden
uncovers shocking campus activity―from the CIA placing agents
undercover in Harvard Kennedy School classes and staging academic
conferences to persuade Iranian nuclear scientists to defect, to
a Chinese graduate student at Duke University stealing research
for an invisibility cloak, and a tiny liberal arts college in
Marietta, Ohio, exchanging faculty with China’s most notorious
spy school―to show how relentlessly and ruthlessly both U.S. and
foreign intelligence services are penetrating the ivory tower.
Golden, the acclaimed author of
Golden, the acclaimed author ofThe Price of Admission
The Price of Admission,
unmasks this secret culture of espionage and its consequences at
home and abroad.
,
unmasks this secret culture of espionage and its consequences at
home and abroad.