San Diego
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| City in Southern California with large military presence. |
San Diego is a city in the U.S. state of California located alongside the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. With a population of over 1.3 million residents, the city is the eighth-most populous in the United States and the second-most populous in California after Los Angeles. The city is located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.
The economy of San Diego is influenced by its deepwater port, which includes the only major submarine and shipbuilding yards on the West Coast. The city has a long association with the United States Navy[1], hosting the largest naval fleet in the world.[2] There are also Coast Guard and Marine Corps bases in the city.
It has also emerged as a "healthcare" and biotechnology development center. [3] The community of La Jolla is home to many corporations in bioengineering, medical practice and scientific research, including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| 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 |
Groups Headquartered Here
| Group | Start | Description |
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| General Atomics | 1955 | Part of the military-industrial complex, much more than nuclear. |
| National Resilience | 2020 | |
| San Diego State University | 1897 | University in San Diego, California |
| University of California/San Diego | 18 November 1960 | One of the most prestigious universities in the world. High research activity. |
Jobs here
| Event | Job | Appointed | End |
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| David Bowdich | Head of field office in San Diego | 2009 | 2012 |
| Monte Overacre | Recruiter of overseas tech spies | 1992 | 1994 |
Sponsor
| Event | Description |
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| Open Philanthropy | Grant maker funneling deep state money among other things to pandemic planning. Financed Event 201. |
