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🗓️ 4 February 2025
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0:33.0 | Welcome to Spycast, the official podcast of the International Spy Museum. I'm your host, Sasha |
0:39.9 | Inber, and each week I take you into the shadows of espionage, intelligence, and covert |
0:45.7 | operations across the globe. It may surprise you to know that for decades, schools have been a destination for espionage, |
0:56.2 | especially in recent years, the use of international students and faculty as spies on American |
1:01.8 | campuses has been particularly daunting. Why do intelligence services, both foreign and domestic, |
1:09.2 | target colleges and universities? What is there to gain on |
1:13.1 | these campuses? To talk to us about this, we've brought in award-winning journalist Dan Golden, |
1:19.4 | author of the book Spy Schools. Dan first came across this practice while working at Bloomberg. |
1:25.5 | He was covering a story about a professor who was teaching at |
1:28.4 | the University of South Florida, and the professor was in trouble over personal issues, things like |
1:35.0 | porn on his computer and financial troubles. The FBI smelled blood, and they gave the professor |
1:42.2 | an ultimatum, lose everything or spy on his Chinese peers. |
1:47.7 | So, Dan, thanks for being here. What stood out to you about this story? |
1:53.1 | I was talking to a friend of mine in the FBI, and I said, is this an isolated instance? |
1:58.5 | He said, no, this happens all the time, but it's a two-way street. |
2:02.4 | There's this underground spy war on American campuses. Foreign countries are trying to gather |
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