Daniel Golden is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who wrote “Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities.” Here, Golden discusses how foreign countries send student-spies to U.S. college campuses, what they’re looking for, and how U.S. intelligence agencies try to turn those students into spies for America.
1/2 of his book involves espionage on US campuses from foreign intelligence agencies and 1/2 is devoted to American agencies on US campuses.
Globalization, the influx of foreign students and university foreign campuses, has turned academia into a front-line for espionage.
China sends the most foreign students to the US. Cuban agents are usually disguised as Puerto Ricans.
[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she was born in the Bronx, but her parents were Puerto Ricans]
Interesting topic, theft of US technology being stolen while being developed at Universities before it gets classified by military/gov.
Video interview:
https://www.azfamily.com/video/digital-extra-author-says-it-s-spy-versus-spy-on/video_53d2bc25-3745-5da8-810c-fe1e309d9f93.html