Sleeper agent: Lidiya Guryeva aka Cynthia Murphy, a Russian spy, was told to get close to university professors who had access to secrets.American universities have become infected with foreign spies posing as humble students and researchers, who are working to steal government secrets and new technologies to take back to their own countries.
Untold numbers of foreign agents are hidden among the thousands of legitimate international students who are studying science, technology and engineering in the US.
China, Russia and Iran are among the nations who are attempting to exploit the culture of openness and transparency in American higher education.
Attempts by China and other East Asian countries to use academic channels to get their hands on classified information or corporate secrets rose eight-fold between 2009 and 2010, alone, Bloomberg reports
Similar attempts by Middle Eastern governments rose by two-fold last year. Read More
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