City College of New York

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Group.png City College of New York  
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MottoRespice, Adspice, Prospice
Formation1847
HeadquartersNew York City, New York, United States
Type Public
Other nameBeavers

The City College of the City University of New York is a public college in New York City.

The City College of New York was founded as the Free Academy of the City of New York in 1847 by wealthy businessman and president of the Board of Education Townsend Harris. A combination prep school, high school / secondary school and college, it would provide children of immigrants and the poor access to free higher education based on academic merit alone.


 

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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
Sheldon Adelson4 August 193311 January 2021Zionism
Deep politician
Billionaire
Businessperson
Multi-billionaire pro-Israel US sponsor of the US government
Bernard Baruch19 August 187020 June 1965US
Daniel Bell10 May 191925 January 2011USAuthor
Sociologist
Bilderberger co-founder of neoconservatism.
Herman J. Cohen10 February 1932USDiplomat
Felix Frankfurter15 November 188222 February 1965Judge"The most controversial justice of his time."
Nathan Glazer25 February 192319 January 2019USNeoconservative
Sociologist
US sociologist
Rebecca Goldstein23 February 1950USAuthor
Philosopher
US philosopher and author who attended her first Bilderberg in 2018.
Roger Hertog1941USFinancier
Businessperson
Millionaire
US-Israeli millionaire, "the one man who has, far more than anyone else, financially enabled the neoconservative movement to exist"
Sidney Hook20 December 190212 July 1989PhilosopherAmerican philosopher and anti-communist activist.
Stanley Kaplan24 May 191923 August 2009USBusinesspersonGot rich by pushing kids to cram for Scholastic Aptitude Tests
Ed Koch12 December 19241 February 2013Politician
Lawyer
Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.
Irving Kristol22 January 192018 September 2009USAcademic
Neoconservatism
"The Godfather of Neoconservatism"
Seymour Lipset18 March 192231 December 2006USAcademic
Neoconservative
Sociologist
US neoconservative sociologist who attended the 1970 Bilderberg conference, and was a member of several intelligence-connected groups such as the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, Committee for the Free World and Committee on the Present Danger.
Jay Lovestone15 December 18977 March 1990Spook
Activist
US communist who ended up working for James Jesus Angleton
Michael ParentiUSAcademic
Historian
A highly recommended American historian.
Arno Penzias26 April 1933USPhysicistAmerican physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics.
William Perl19191970Spook
Physicist
American physicist and Soviet spy.
Colin Powell5 April 193718 October 2021USSoldier
Politician
Deep state operative
US officer and politician heavily involved in the deep state Iran-contra affair. He is particularly remembered for his dramatic lies in the UN Security Council before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, claiming Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Robert F. Wagner8 June 18774 May 1953Politician
Murray Weidenbaum10 February 192720 March 2014
Albert Wohlstetter19 December 191310 January 1997USHistorian
Neoconservatism
Neoconservative, long time director of the Rand Corporation
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