universities harbor CIA terrorists

[jack stroube]

ladies and gents,

a blockade is in order...from the washington post...the key line being:

"The trend could not have occurred without a change in campus politics, 
college officials say. In the 1960s, rumors of CIA recruitment at a school 
were enough to trigger student demonstrations, and the notion of a CIA agent 
teaching was almost unthinkable. Today's students on the whole are much more 
politically conservative."

time to roll back that shit...hell i remember in the 80s there was a much 
more significant concern about secret wars and shit before all the 
"liberals" ("I'm a liberal" ochs) sold us up the river with the new found 
confidence in secret wars to fight the new terrorist enemy with terrorist 
means...fuck the afghani civil rights, justice is in order...hell we taught 
the taliban to do it, now we accuse them of it while we actually do it 
ourselves here on fucking animal farm proud to be an american pig...

Published on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 in the Washington Post
CIA Sends Agents To Schools -- To Teach
by Valerie Strauss and Vernon Loeb

A smartly dressed man named Joe whose parents don't know what he does for a 
living riveted a University of Maryland class last week with tales about 
U.S. government secrets. Joe, the guest lecturer in a course called "Legal 
Issues in Managing Information," works for the CIA. So does the course's 
instructor, whose full name can be published.
At George Washington University, another CIA employee teaches a course on 
competitive intelligence in business. And the same thing is happening at 
Georgetown University.

Intelligence is flourishing as a new academic discipline at hundreds of 
colleges across the country. Only a small fraction of the instructors are 
CIA employees, but many others have worked in government intelligence or 
diplomacy of some kind and have fashioned courses based on that service.

Their skills mesh perfectly with the business world's increased emphasis on 
information management and how distinguishing good information from bad 
information affects the bottom line. Indeed, the typical student in an 
intelligence course is not a wannabe spy but an aspiring business executive, 
systems analyst or librarian.

Ann Prentice, dean of U-Md.'s College of Library and Information Systems, 
said the school sought out Lee Strickland, the CIA official teaching the 
graduate course on legal issues, for the practical experience he could bring 
to information management.

"It's our core business," she said. "We thought Lee could bring another 
perspective that would be valuable."

The new academic field also is growing because of a dramatic increase in 
source material. Since the end of the Cold War, millions of pages of secret 
documents, as well as archival material from the former Soviet Union, have 
been declassified. There also has been an explosion in books about 
intelligence work; more than 1,000 are listed in Books in Print, compared 
with 215 in 1994. Three textbooks on the subject are being published, and 
intelligence Web sites proliferate on the Internet.

The trend could not have occurred without a change in campus politics, 
college officials say. In the 1960s, rumors of CIA recruitment at a school 
were enough to trigger student demonstrations, and the notion of a CIA agent 
teaching was almost unthinkable. Today's students on the whole are much more 
politically conservative.

Strickland is part of the CIA's Officers in Residence program, in which 
employees take two-year leaves to teach. The teachers are selected by the 
agency, then approved by the university.

Nine universities currently participate. And more than 30, including Harvard 
and Princeton universities, have done so since the program began in 1985. 
Lloyd D. Salvetti, the CIA official in charge of teacher placements, says 
more schools want to participate than he has agents to send. A few 
universities have turned down the arrangement, he said, declining to name 
them.

Prentice said no one, student or faculty member, has complained to her about 
having a CIA agent on the College Park campus.

Students in Strickland's course say they benefit from his service in the 
CIA's office of general counsel. Michelle McDaniels, 31, who is studying to 
be a librarian, said he has taught her about classifying information and 
many other issues she will face in her field. "I have learned something that 
has real-world applicability in every class," said McDaniels, who calls 
Strickland's course "the most useful" she has taken.

Floyd L. Paseman, who ran the CIA's East Asian operations and is now on a 
two-year teaching stint at Marquette University in Milwaukee, draws similar 
plaudits from students. In fact, Marquette students selected him as the best 
instructor in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Pamela Noe, the CIA officer in residence at GWU, teaches "U.S. 
Intelligence--Past, Present and Future," as well as "Introduction to 
Competitive Intelligence," in which students design strategies for companies 
or organizations of their choice.

Some of the instructors have had CIA critics as guest lecturers. Paseman 
brought before Marquette's honor society a former KGB general, who said he 
believed the CIA had lost its will to take big covert actions such as 
assassinations. Strickland debated in class with Steven Aftergood of the 
American Federation of Sciences Intelligence Research Program, which has 
sued the CIA over its secrecy policies.

Aftergood said he supports CIA agents teaching. "I think it is a welcome 
development that contributes to the demystification of intelligence," he 
said. "It brings at least a handful of intelligence officers out of their 
classified enclave into the relative freedom of academia. . . . Exploring 
intelligence in the academic environment could eventually lead to 
qualitative changes in intelligence."

The Harvard of the intelligence field is the Joint Military Intelligence 
College, in the highly secure headquarters of the Defense Intelligence 
Agency at Bolling Air Force Base in Southeast Washington.

It is the only college in the country that grants fully accredited 
bachelor's and master's degrees in intelligence and the only one that 
teaches intelligence using the highest levels of classified information. All 
students must get top-secret clearance.

While the Joint Military Intelligence College has granted master's degrees 
in strategic intelligence since 1983, it began awarding bachelor's degrees 
only in 1998. The Department of Education had concluded that a need existed 
for a government institution that could offer courses with classified 
curricula.

Salvetti welcomes the nationwide increase in intelligence courses and thinks 
it will help the public understand how the spy world operates. "At the end 
of the day, we [the CIA] have suffered for the fact that we are at the hands 
of those who would popularize this profession, mythologize it, Hollywood-ize 
it," he said.

CIA officers in schools are there to teach--not recruit, he said. 
Instructors often are asked by students about CIA careers, and they are 
referred to recruiters.

And the recruiters, of course, don't turn them away.


? 2000 The Washington Post Company





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