Ebook: Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities
Author: Daniel Golden
- Tags: EDUCATION--Educational Policy & Reform, Espionage, Espionage--United States, Intelligence service--Officials and employees--Recruiting--United States, Intelligence service--United States--Officials and employees--Recruiting, POLITICAL SCIENCE--Intelligence & Espionage, Rekrutierung, Spies--Recruiting, Spies--Recruiting--United States, Spion, TRUE CRIME--Espionage, Universität, Universities and colleges, Universities and colleges--United States, Intelligence service -- Officials and employees -- Recruiting --
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- City: United States;USA
- Language: English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden exposes how academia has become the center of foreign and domestic espionage--and why that is troubling news for our nation's security.
Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era when espionage increasingly requires specialized scientific or technological expertise, they're wooing higher-level academics--not just as analysts, but also for clandestine operations.
Golden uncovers unbelievable 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. He shows how relentlessly and ruthlessly this practice has permeated our culture, not just inside the US, but internationally as well. Golden, acclaimed author of The Price of Admission, blows the lid off this secret culture of espionage and its consequences at home and abroad.
Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always recruited bright undergraduates, but now, in an era when espionage increasingly requires specialized scientific or technological expertise, they're wooing higher-level academics--not just as analysts, but also for clandestine operations.
Golden uncovers unbelievable 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. He shows how relentlessly and ruthlessly this practice has permeated our culture, not just inside the US, but internationally as well. Golden, acclaimed author of The Price of Admission, blows the lid off this secret culture of espionage and its consequences at home and abroad.
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