The CIA on Campus

Former CIA Personnel Director F.W.M. Janney once wrote, “It is absolutely essential that the Agency have available to it the greatest single source of expertise: the American academic community.” To this end, the Central Intelligence Agency has poured tens of millions of dollars into universities to influence research and enlist students and faculty members into its ranks. This collection of nine essays from diverse academic fields explores the pernicious penetration of intelligence services into U.S. campus life to exploit academic study, recruit students, skew publications, influence professional advancement, misinform the public, and spy on professors. With its exhaustive list of CIA misdeeds and myriad suggestions for combatting the subversion of academic independence, this work provides a wake-up call for students and faculty across the country.

Philip Zwerling, now retired to the Mendocino Coast of California, previously taught creative writing at Ursinus College and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of seven books on film, theater and history.

Edited by Philip Zwerling
Format: softcover (6 x 9)
Pages: 254
Bibliographic Info: photos, notes, bibliographies, index
Copyright Date: 2011
pISBN: 978-0-7864-6346-6
eISBN: 978-0-7864-8889-6
Imprint: McFarland

Acknowledgments      ix
Preface: The Search for Truth      1

1. Template for Terror
PHILIP ZWERLING      7
2. Uninvited Guests: A Short History of the CIA on Campus
DAVID PRICE      33
3. South of the Border: The CIA in Latin America
DAVID CARLSON      61
4. The Spooks in the Stacks: Academic Libraries and the National Security State Since 9/11
DEIRDRE MCDONALD      88
5. Deception Detection and Torture: The American Psychological Association Serves the Intelligence Services
STEPHEN SOLDZ      113
6. CHAOS on Campus: I Spied for the CIA
VERNE LYON      147
7. Never Too Young: The U.S. Intelligence Community’s Summer Spy Camp for Kids
ROBERTO GONZÁLEZ      168
8. Nine Steps to a Spy- Free Campus
PHILIP ZWERLING      191
9. Which Side Are You On? Intelligence Agencies on Campus and the Class Struggle
DAVID ANSHEN      216

About the Contributors      241
Index      243

“this collection of nine essays explores the history, motives and consequences of the US Central Intelligence Agency’s presence on US university and college campuses”—Reference & Research Book News.