Auburn University

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Formation7 February 1856
HeadquartersAuburn, Alabama
A public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama.

 

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Victor Marchetti“To the Clandestine Services the universities represented fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They were much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintained a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor had picked out a likely candidate, he notified his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participated in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors performed these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participated in agency covert operations by serving as "cut-outs," or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.”Victor Marchetti1974
Victor MarchettiHelms asked his staff to find out just how many university personnel were under secret contract to the CIA. After a few days of investigation, senior CIA officers reported back that they could not find the answer. Helms immediately ordered a full study of the situation, and after more than a month of searching records all over the agency, a report was handed in to Helms listing hundreds of professors and administrators on over a hundred campuses. But the staff officers who compiled the report knew that their work was incomplete . Within weeks, another campus connection was exposed in the press. The contact was not on the list that had been compiled for the Director.”Victor Marchetti1974

 

Alumni on Wikispooks

PersonBornDiedNationalitySummaryDescription
Lloyd Austin8 August 1953USPolitician
Military
United States Secretary of Defense
Rick BrightRestricted the use of hydroxychloroquine in US
Lester Crawford13 March 1938
Richard Myers1 March 1942
Wilton Persons19 January 18965 September 1977SoldierMilitary officer who was the White House Chief of Staff to President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Michael S. Rogers27 January 1954SpookCommander of U.S. Cyber Command and Director of NSA
Paul J. Selva27 September 1958Soldier
Airman
Air Force general specializing in air supply operations who was vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 2015-2019.
Henry Shelton2 January 1942
Jimmy Wales7 August 1966Executive
Financial trader
Founder of super-influential Wikipedia. Tony Blair aide's is (strategically?) married to him.
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