Daniel Golden

Spy Schools (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781627796361
• Artikelnr.: 48143708

Autorenporträt

Daniel Golden, a senior editor and reporter at ProPublica, has won a Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards. He is the bestselling author of The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges-and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates and Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities .

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The FBI Goes to College
Part 1: Foreign Espionage at American Universities
1: Cloak of Invisibility
2: The Chinese Are Coming
3: Spy Without a Country
4: Foreign Exchange
5: Shanghaied
Part 2: Covert U.S. Operations in Higher Education
6: An Imperfect Spy
7: The CIA's Favorite University President
8: Bumps and Cutouts
9: Hidden in the Ivy
10: "I Am Keeping You out of Jail"
11: No-Spy Zone