Story continues below advertisementThe FBI has been reaching out to colleges and universities across the country as it tries to stem what American authorities portray as the wholesale theft of technology and trade secrets by researchers tapped by China. The breadth and intensity of the campaign emerges in emails The Associated Press obtained through records requests to public universities in 50 states. The emails underscore the extent of U.S.
“When we go to the universities, what we’re trying to do is highlight the risk to them without discouraging them from welcoming the researchers and students from a country like China,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers, the Justice Department’s top national security official, said in an interview.
The University of Minnesota did the same, with an administrator reassuring the FBI in an email last May that issues raised by a best practices letter an agent forwarded “have certainly been topics of conversation in our halls for a while now.”But the Justice Department’s track record hasn’t been perfect, leading to pushback from some that the concerns are overstated.
A University of Colorado associate vice chancellor equivocated in January on how to handle an agent’s request for a meeting, emailing colleagues that the request to discuss university research felt “probing” and like “more of a fishing expedition” than past occasions. Another administrator replied that the FBI presumably wanted to discuss intellectual property theft, calling it “bright on their radar.
Some outreach is more general, like an agent’s offer to brief New Mexico State University on “how the FBI can best serve and protect.”“If you have concerns about any faculty or graduate researchers, students, outside vendors … pretty much anything we previously discussed – just reminding you that I am here to help,” one wrote to Iowa State.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
globebusiness They don't need to steal propaganda. They make plenty of their own.
globebusiness Nice hard hitting report. Now try that here in Canada with the liberal_party and JustinTrudeau - they could use some sunlight. Cdnpoli TrudeauMustGo TrudeauBlackface
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