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

[Peter Lemkin]

Remember too that the children of the ultra-rich go and blue-bloods [sic] go to those universities. The thinking is that they are easy prey to the 'culture' of the intelligence community which has the elite country club mentality - something few working class students on a scholarship would easily be enticed into - although that happens occasionally. They also target the best schools in the hope of getting the best and the brightest - although it often doesn't work out that way. G. W. Bush is a classic example of that - but there are so many others. Few of the really top students want to exist in the amoral world of 'intelligence'. This system of using Universities for recruiting seems in its modern sense to be a British invention - using Oxford and Cambridge as their main recruiting stations. It now also has been expanded to foreign universities that teach in English and even a few that do not teach in English as their primary language - in order to have access to people from other cultures and languages they need for their operations. I know of one such university doing so here in Europe - and I'm sure there are many others.