Long before we learned about Maria Butina, a Russian student at the American University in Washington, DC, and how she allegedly spied for her country, author Daniel Golden wrote a book about how foreign countries use American college campuses to gather intelligence. Golden’s book is called “Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities.”
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