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

This is a book of both wisdom and caution and should be widely read and discussed in and outside the walls of academeEven better than The Price of Admission."E. This book should be read by everyone who cares about preserving higher education as a route for developing talent, not rewarding privilege.” -Diane Ravitch, research professor of education, New York University, and author of Left Back. A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of super-privilege.”–Michael Wolff, New York Times Book Review“Deserves to become a classic. Why do Mr Golden's findings matter so much? The most important reason is that America is witnessing a potentially

. In 2011, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer in Public Service for his BloombergNews series about for-profit colleges exploiting veterans and low-income students, collapsing the multi-billion-dollar industry. Daniel Golden won a Pulitzer for his Wall Street Journal series on admissions preferences at elite colleges, which became the basis for his bestselling book, The Price of Admission. His exposé of Countrywide’s special loans to l

He shows how relentlessly and ruthlessly this practice has permeated our culture, not just inside the US, but internationally as well. 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 academicsnot just as analysts, but also for clandestine operations.Golden uncovers unbelievable campus activityfrom 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 tin