Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities

✍ Scribed by Golden, Daniel

• Book ID: 109876160
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 9 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781627796354

✦ Synopsis

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...