Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals that globalisation - 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. 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.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposes how academia is a major target of foreign and domestic espionage-and why that is troubling news for our nation's security and democratic values.

About the Author
Daniel Golden won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 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 series about how U.S. companies dodge taxes won Bloomberg News's first and only Pulitzer Prize in 2015. In 2011, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his Bloomberg News series about for-profit colleges. He is currently a senior editor at ProPublica.


Book Information
ISBN 9781250182470
Author Daniel Golden
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 312g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 25mm