University of Connecticut

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Group.png University of Connecticut  
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Formation1881
Type• Public
• Flagship
• Land Grant
• Sea Grant
• Space Grant
Other nameHuskies
Public university in Connecticut

The University of Connecticut (UConn, sometimes stylized as UCONN) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, about 45 km east of Hartford, Connecticut. It was founded in 1881. In addition to the main campus in Storrs, there are five regional campuses in Groton, West Hartford, Stamford, Torrington and Waterbury. Law schools are in Hartford and medical and dental schools in Farmington. The university is particularly known for its research and teaching in the fields of family studies, health management, law, education, and dentistry.


 

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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

PersonBornNationalitySummaryDescription
Richard Bernstein5 May 1944USAuthor
Journalist
Author and Asia correspondent who attended the 1997 Bilderberg, the same year he published The Coming Conflict with China
Dennis BushnellUSAcademic
Scientist
Scientist and futurist working for NASA
Theodore Couloumbis1935GreeceAcademicGreek academic with close ties to the United States.
Charles DuelferSpookUS spook who led post-war whitewash of lie of "Iraqi WMDs".
John Huang1945A major figure in Chinagate, a 1996 election funding scandal involving Bill Clinton.
Robert Kaplan23 June 1952USAuthor
Academic
Spooky US author writing books on geopolitics based on his extensive traveling. Chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor when he attended the 2013 Bilderberg conference.
Brett McGurk20 April 1973Diplomat
Dire Tladi20 August 1975Academic
Judge
Tansu Çiller24 May 1946TurkeyAcademic
Economist
Deep politician
The Susurluk car crash in 1996 revealed the relations between deep state organizations and Çiller's government.
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