University of California/San Diego

University of California/San Diego   (University)
Formation	November 18, 1960
Headquarters	San Diego, California, USA
Type	•  public •  land-grant •  research
Sponsored by	Carnegie Corporation
One of the most prestigious universities in the world. High research activity.

For the public California State University school, see San Diego State University. For the private school, see University of San Diego

The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California, and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling 33,343 undergraduate and 9,533 graduate students. The university occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the coast of the Pacific Ocean, with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres (466 ha). UCSD is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

UC San Diego consists of twelve undergraduate, graduate and professional schools as well as seven undergraduate residential colleges. The university operates 19 organized research units as well as eight School of Medicine research units, six research centers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and two multi-campus initiatives. UC San Diego is also closely affiliated with several regional research centers, such as the Salk Institute, the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, and the Scripps Research Institute.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Monte Overacre	“Monte Overacre's most important job was recruiting overseas spies. He worked on the campus of a university (though he carefully guarded the identity of the university) in the San Diego area, where he managed a team posing as telecommunications academics, recruiting visiting foreign technology experts to spy for the U.S. back in their home countries-from South America to Europe, Africa to Asia-to keep the agency on top of new technological innovations. Under the guise of running a series of seminars on telecommunications, Overacre and his MXSCOPE team would invite scientists, engineers, and government and corporate officials from all over the world to come to San Diego. Once there, unwitting attendees would be scoped out by Overacre, evaluated, and targeted for recruitment as potential CIA agents, or "assets," after they returned to their home countries. The recruitment efforts were typically unsavory. "The old methods work even with the nerds, sometimes even better," he wrote. "Trips to massage parlors, strip clubs, wild bars with aggressive white women, etc., make these guys come unglued, just like any truck driver. Once you have gotten a guy laid and paid the bill for him, you have a friend for life. Eventually, the recruits would probably be handled by a CIA case officer working out of the U.S. embassy or, more frequently, operating under nonofficial cover, posing as an American businessman. By then, the new agents likely would be on the CIA’s payroll.”	Monte Overacre Mother Jones Robert Dreyfuss	1998

 

Sponsor

Event	Description
Carnegie Corporation	Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too.

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

Person	Born	Nationality	Summary	Description
Alexander Butterfield	6 April 1926		Spook Soldier	The spook who installed the taping system for Richard Nixon.
Alicia Garza	4 January 1981	US	Activist	Professional activist and one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

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