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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the Feds Are Recruiting Spies at Campuses Across the US
http://www.alternet.org/books/how-feds-are-recruiting-spies-campuses-across-usIn July 2005, a select group of fifteen- to nineteen-year-old high school students participated in a week-long summer program called Spy Camp in the Washington, DC, area. The program included a field trip to the CIAs headquarters in Langley, Virginia, an intelligence simulation exercise, and a visit to the $35 million International Spy Museum. According to the Spy Museums website, visiting groups have the option of choosing from three different scavenger hunts, in which teams are pitted against one another in activities ranging from code-breaking to deceptive maneuvers. . . . Each team will be armed with a top secret bag of tricks to help solve challenging questions that can be found in the museum.
On the surface, the program sounds like fun and games, and after reading about the program one might guess that it was organized by an imagina- tive social studies teacher. But for some, Spy Camp was more than just fun and gamesit was very serious business. The high school program was car- ried out by Trinity University of Washington, DCa predominantly African American university with an overwhelmingly female student populationas part of a pilot grant from the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to create an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence (or IC Center).
According to the Office of the DNI, the goal of the IC Center program is to increase the pool of future applicants for careers in the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the dozen or so other organizations that make up the U.S. intelligence communityin less euphemistic terms, Americas spy agencies.
The idea for IC Centers came about in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, when both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives held hearings about how the countrys spy agencies missed clues that might have foiled the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. As part of the response, Congress passed a sweeping law called the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S 2845). In the House Intelligence Committee hearings prior to the bills passage, California representative Jane Harman (Democrat from California and chair of the House Intelligence Committee) put it bluntly: We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups. We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects that terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women that might be intimidated by men (emphasis added).
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How the Feds Are Recruiting Spies at Campuses Across the US (Original Post)
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Jun 2014
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Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)1. For good or bad, we will always need spies.