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Bezig met laden... Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities (editie 2017)door Daniel Golden (Auteur)
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am a sucker for good espionage books, ever since I could read I always enjoyed the game of shadows countries play, maybe because I lack the nerves of steel required to participate. When I saw Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities by Daniel Golden I knew this book would be right up my alley. When I saw the author’s name, I looked him up because it sounded familiar and quickly realized that I enjoyed Mr. Golden’s articles previously. The book did not disappoint as it is written in the same factual, crisp, and entertaining manner. Mr. Golden just doesn’t lay out facts and figures, but does his best to tell a coherent story that can be found within those dry statistics. The author tries to understand why, and how, intelligence services around the world are targeting American higher education, and the implications from those actions. Mr. Cohen takes a few select cases, researches them, and write a comprehensive narrative for the reader. I could not believe that some schools take federal grants and do not bother to secure the classified work they are doing on the government’s behalf. To me, that is astounding and irresponsible by bot the school and the government. It’s especially egregious since both parties are pretty much aware that spying in academia is actively happening. The book has several interesting anecdotes, some of which are very compelling. I might disagree with some of the author’s assessments in the book (not that I’m any kind of an expert, just disagrees my world view), but isn’t those exactly the books which we should all read? For more reviews and bookish posts please visit: http://www.ManOfLaBook.com ![]() Golden is a journalist, and the writing shows his journalistic roots. While it's a good book, it often comes across as a set of interconnected news articles rather than a single work, and this detracts from the work. On the other hand, it's an important subject, and Spy Schools is worth a look as we hear more and more about issues like US universities expanding into other countries. ![]() geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"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, 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. 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 The Price of Admission, unmasks this secret culture of espionage and its consequences at home and abroad."--Jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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![]() GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)327.12730071Social sciences Political Science International Relations Foreign policy and specific topics in international relations Espionage and subversion North America United StatesLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:![]()
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