The peg is former (and now prosecuted) Penn State president Graham Spanier’s robust efforts to open up top universities to the intelligence service. The story also offers a brief, if hopefully well known, history of the relation between the CIA and American universities since the 1950s.
this just came up this morning in a panel on Latin American writers at the 50th anniv of the UIowa International Writers Program, folks should check out:
https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/fred-turner-on-the-democratic-surround/
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