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By Daniel Golden – Apr 8, 2012 5:00 PM ET<\/cite><\/h6>\n
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Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon contacted the Central Intelligence Agency in late 2009 with an urgent question.<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s campus in Dubai<\/a> needed a bailout and an unlikely savior had stepped forward: a Dubai-based company that offered to provide money and students.<\/p>\n

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Frank Figliuzzi, assistant director for counterintelligence with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), sits for a photograph in front of a wall of convicted spy profiles at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2012. Photographer: Andrew Harrer\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lou Anna K. Simon, president of Michigan State University speaks during a video taping in her office in East Lansig, Michigan on Dec. 17, 2010. Photographer: Kurt Stepnitz\/Michigan State University via Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Then Penn State University President Graham Spanier. (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sergei Tretyakov, a former Russian intelligence agent. Source: Pete Earley via Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Russian spy Lidiya Guryeva was pursuing a master’s degree in business at Columbia under the name of Cynthia Murphy. Guryeva was arrested for acting as an agent of a foreign power and deported to Russia. Source: U.S. Department of Justice via Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Simon was tempted. She also worried that the company, which had investors from Iran<\/a> and wanted to recruit students from there, might be a front for the Iranian government, she said. If so, an agreement could violate federal trade sanctions and invite enemy spies.<\/p>\n

The CIA couldn\u2019t confirm that the company wasn\u2019t an arm of Iran\u2019s government. Simon rejected the offer and shut down undergraduate programs in Dubai, at a loss of $3.7 million.<\/p>\n

Hearkening back to Cold War anxieties, growing signs of spying on U.S. universities<\/a> are alarming national security officials. As schools become more global in their locations and student populations, their culture of openness and international collaboration makes them increasingly vulnerable to theft of research conducted for the government and industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have intelligence and cases indicating that U.S. universities are indeed a target of foreign intelligence services,\u201d Frank Figliuzzi, Federal Bureau<\/a> of Investigation assistant director for counterintelligence, said in a February interview in the bureau\u2019s Washington headquarters.<\/p>\n

\u2018Academic Solicitation\u2019<\/h2>\n

While overshadowed by espionage against corporations, efforts by foreign countries to penetrate universities have increased in the past five years, Figliuzzi said. The FBI and academia, which have often been at loggerheads, are working together to combat the threat, he said.<\/p>\n

Attempts by countries in East Asia, including China, to obtain classified or proprietary information by \u201cacademic solicitation,\u201d such as requests to review academic papers or study with professors, jumped eightfold in 2010 from a year earlier, according to a 2011 U.S. Defense Department report<\/a>. Such approaches from the Middle East<\/a> doubled, it said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlacing academics at U.S. research institutions under the guise of legitimate research offers access to developing U.S. technologies and cutting-edge research\u201d in such areas as information systems, lasers, aeronautics and underwater robots, the report said.<\/p>\n

World-Class Talent<\/h2>\n

Welcoming world-class talent to American universities helps the U.S. sustain global supremacy in science and technology, said University of Maryland President Wallace Loh. He chairs the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s academic advisory council, which held its first meeting March 20 and is expected to address such topics as federal tracking of international students.<\/p>\n

Foreign countries \u201ccan never become competitive by stealing,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce you exhaust that technology, you have to start developing the next generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foreigners on temporary visas made up 46 percent of science and engineering graduate students at Georgia Institute of Technology<\/a> and Michigan State and 41 percent at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, according to a federal survey. China<\/a> sent 76,830 graduate students to U.S. universities in 2010-2011, more than any other country and up almost 16 percent from the prior year, according to the Institute of International Education in New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finding Recruits<\/h2>\n

While most international students, researchers and professors come to the U.S. for legitimate reasons, universities are an \u201cideal place\u201d for foreign intelligence services \u201cto find recruits, propose and nurture ideas, learn and even steal research data, or place trainees,\u201d according to a 2011 FBI report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In one instance described in the report, the hosts of an international conference invited a U.S. researcher to submit a paper. When she gave her talk at the conference, they requested a copy, hooked a thumb drive to her laptop and downloaded every file. In another, an Asian graduate student arranged for researchers back home to visit an American university lab and take unauthorized photos of equipment so they could reconstruct it, the report said.<\/p>\n

A foreign scientist\u2019s military background or purpose isn\u2019t always apparent. Accustomed to hosting visiting scholars, Professor Daniel J. Scheeres didn\u2019t hesitate to grant a request several years ago by Yu Xiaohong to study with him at the University of Michigan<\/a>. She expressed a \u201cpretty general interest\u201d in Scheeres\u2019s work on topics such as movement of celestial bodies in space, he said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

Unaware of Credentials<\/h2>\n

She cited an affiliation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/a>, a civilian organization, Scheeres said. The Beijing address Yu listed in the Michigan<\/a> online directory is the same as the Academy of Equipment Command & Technology, where instructors train Chinese military cadets and officers. Scheeres said he wasn\u2019t aware of that military connection, nor that Yu co-wrote a 2004 article on improving the precision of anti- satellite weapons.<\/p>\n

Once Yu arrived, her questions made him uncomfortable, said Scheeres, who now teaches at the University of Colorado<\/a>. As a result, he stopped accepting visiting scholars from China.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pretty clear to me that the stuff she was interested in probably had some military satellite-orbit applications,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce I saw that, I didn\u2019t really tell her anything new, or anything that couldn\u2019t be published. I didn\u2019t engage that deeply with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrote About NASA<\/h2>\n

Yu later wrote a paper on the implications for space warfare of the NASA Deep Impact mission, which sent a spacecraft to collide with a comet. She couldn\u2019t be reached for comment.<\/p>\n

American universities have also trained Chinese researchers who later committed corporate espionage. Hanjuan Jin, a former software engineer at Motorola Inc., was found guilty in February in federal court of stealing the Schaumburg, Illinois-based company\u2019s trade secrets and acquitted of charges she did so to benefit China\u2019s military. She is scheduled for sentencing in May and has also filed a motion for a new trial.<\/p>\n

Jin joined the company, now known as Motorola Solutions Inc. (MOT)<\/a>, after earning a master\u2019s degree from the University of Notre Dame<\/a> in South Bend, Indiana<\/a>. While at Motorola, she received a second master\u2019s, this time in computer science, from the Illinois Institute of Technology<\/a> in Chicago<\/a>. IIT\u2019s own research wasn\u2019t compromised, institute spokesman Evan Venie said in an e-mail. A Notre Dame spokesman declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Study Abroad Targets<\/h2>\n

More Americans are heading overseas for schooling, becoming potential targets for intelligence services, Figliuzzi said. More than 270,000 Americans<\/a> studied abroad for credit in 2009- 2010, up 4 percent from the year before. President Barack Obama has announced an initiative to send 100,000 American students to China, and China has committed 10,000 scholarships for them.<\/p>\n

As a junior at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, Glenn Duffie Shriver studied at East China Normal University in Shanghai<\/a>. After graduation, he fell in with Chinese agents, who paid him more than $70,000. At their request, he returned to the U.S. and applied for jobs in the State Department and the CIA. He was sentenced to four years in prison in January 2011 after pleading guilty to conspiring to provide national-defense information to intelligence officers of the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudy-abroad programs are an attractive target. Foreign security services find young, bright U.S. kids in science or politics, it\u2019s worth winning them over,\u201d Figliuzzi said.<\/p>\n

Front Companies<\/h2>\n

Unlike its counterparts in other countries, which rely on their own operatives, China\u2019s intelligence service<\/a> deploys a freelance network including students, researchers and false- front companies, said David Major, president of the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Falls Church, Virginia<\/a> and a former FBI official.<\/p>\n

China has \u201clots of students who either are forced to or volunteer to collect information,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve heard it said, \u2018If it wanted to steal a beach, Russia<\/a> would send a forklift. China would send a thousand people who would pick up a grain of sand at a time.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

China also has more than 3,000 front companies in the U.S. \u201cfor the sole purpose of acquiring our technology,\u201d former CIA officer S. Eugene Poteat, president of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers in McLean, Virginia, wrote in the fall\/winter 2006-2007 edition of \u201cIntelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies.\u201d<\/p>\n

U.S. and Canadian universities reaped $2.5 billion in 2011 from licensing technology, up from $222 million in 1991, according to the Association of University Technology Managers<\/a> in Deerfield, Illinois.<\/p>\n

\u2018Opened Some Eyes\u2019<\/h2>\n

Universities \u201cmay not fully grasp exactly who they\u2019re spinning off their inventions to,\u201d Figliuzzi said. \u201cThe company could be a front for a foreign power, and often is. We share specific intelligence with university presidents, and we\u2019ve opened some eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan State\u2019s Simon learned to be wary of front companies by serving on the National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, established by the FBI and CIA in 2005. It \u201cmakes you more aware that you need to look below the surface of some of these offers,\u201d she said. \u201cA short-term solution may turn into an institutional embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arizona<\/a> State University President Michael Crow also sits on the board. \u201cIt\u2019s all a little perplexing and overwhelming,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re in the business of trying to recruit more students from China. We\u2019re operating at a total openness mode, while we recognize there are people working beyond the rules to acquire information.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese embassy in Washington<\/a> and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing didn\u2019t respond to e-mailed questions.<\/p>\n

Enabling China<\/h2>\n

Over the years, American universities have enabled China \u201cto leapfrog into the cutting edge of military capability on the way to superpower status,\u201d Richard Fisher, senior fellow on Asian Military Affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center in Alexandria, Virginia, said in an e-mail.<\/p>\n

Chen Dingchang, the head of a Chinese military-sponsored working group on anti-satellite technology, led a delegation in 1998 to the University of Florida<\/a> to learn about diamond-coating manufacturing, used in missile seekers and other systems, said Mark Stokes, executive director of the Project 2049<\/a> Institute in Arlington, Virginia, which studies Chinese aerospace technology. In a 1999 report in a Chinese journal, the authors, including Chen, said the university\u2019s cooperation would assist in overcoming a technical bottleneck in China\u2019s development of anti-satellite warheads.<\/p>\n

\u2018Unlikely to Advertise\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u201cA university may not know that a visiting engineer could be conducting sponsored research on a military program that could hurt Americans in the event of a conflict,\u201d Stokes said. \u201cAn engineer supporting a People\u2019s Liberation Army program is unlikely to advertise his or her purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University of Florida is \u201cunable to verify\u201d the incident, spokesman Stephen Orlando said.<\/p>\n

Chen is a technology adviser at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp., which didn\u2019t respond to an interview request.<\/p>\n

University administrators have traditionally viewed their role as safeguarding academic freedom and making sure that all students, domestic or foreign, are treated the same.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been to campuses where deans would say to Chinese students, \u2018The FBI is coming to talk to you. You have no responsibility to talk to them,\u2019\u201d Major said. \u201cVery hostile environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some faculty members remain uneasy about a partnership with federal investigators. \u201cThe FBI thrives on a certain degree of paranoia, and it operates in secrecy,\u201d said David Gibbs<\/a>, a history professor at the University of Arizona. \u201cThe secrecy goes against so much of what universities are about, which is openness and transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanford University<\/h2>\n

Stanford University<\/a> avoids seeking contracts for \u201cexport- controlled\u201d research, which only Americans can work on without a license because it has implications for economic or national security.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanford does not, nor will it, restrict participation of students on the basis of citizenship,\u201d President John Hennessy testified at a January 2010, congressional hearing in Palo Alto, California<\/a>. More than half of Stanford\u2019s doctoral candidates in the physical sciences and engineering come from outside the U.S., he said.<\/p>\n

Asked by Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican congressman from California, if he had read that Chinese military intelligence uses Chinese students, Hennessy said, \u201cI am aware of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities need to think that they are patriotic Americans, too,\u201d Rohrabacher responded.<\/p>\n

Hennessy is on sabbatical and unavailable to comment, Lisa Lapin, a Stanford spokeswoman, said in an e-mail.<\/p>\n

More Collaboration<\/h2>\n

After becoming Pennsylvania State University president in 1995, Graham Spanier sought closer collaboration with law enforcement. Reading that a president at another state university expressed shock that a faculty member was under investigation for terrorist ties, he resolved not to be similarly taken aback. He arranged a meeting with representatives of national security agencies including the FBI, CIA, Secret Service and Naval Criminal Investigative Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis had never occurred before,\u201d Spanier said in a phone interview. \u201cNobody from higher education had reached out.\u201d<\/p>\n

If they were making inquiries at Penn State, they should let him know, and he would help, Spanier told them. \u201cThat began a very fruitful collaboration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shifting priorities after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to terrorism and espionage from organized crime and kidnapping, the FBI expanded the Penn State model into a national board.<\/p>\n

Handpicked Board<\/h2>\n

Spanier approached other university presidents, and 90 percent agreed to serve, he said. Michigan State\u2019s Simon took over as chair after Spanier stepped down as Penn State president last November in the wake of a scandal over sex-abuse allegations against a former assistant football coach. Simon and the FBI and CIA have agreed to expand the board and start a subcommittee on cyber-hacking.<\/p>\n

The FBI handpicks universities for the board, Figliuzzi said. It looks at how much research they conduct, as well as \u201csensitive cases — where is there a potential problem? Then we make an invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Board members must have security clearances. FBI officials brief them about cases on their campuses, and the presidents in return guide federal investigators through the thickets of higher education.<\/p>\n

Problem Solved<\/h2>\n

When a foreign entity compromised the computer system of a major university, the bureau contacted the school\u2019s information- technology administrators, who denied that they had a security breach. The FBI consulted Spanier, who persuaded the university\u2019s president to meet with the bureau.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat opened the door to a higher level of cooperation,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem was solved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, the bureau warned Simon that research in behavioral science by a foreign graduate student at Michigan State \u201cmight breach the security of corporate America,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were able to find a way for the student to complete his research and still modify it in a way that took away the national security issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond resolving such cases, the FBI has also alerted board members to the overall threat, most dramatically through a presentation by a former Russian spy. As a colonel in Russian intelligence and its deputy resident in New York from 1995 to 2000, Sergei Tretyakov set his sights on Columbia University<\/a> and New York University, according to \u201cComrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia\u2019s Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War<\/a>\u201d (2008), by Pete Earley.<\/p>\n

Mingled With Professors<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe often targeted academics because their job was to share knowledge and information by teaching it to others, and this made them less guarded than, say, UN diplomats,\u201d Earley quoted Tretyakov as saying. A typical task was to obtain information about \u201ca study of genetically engineered food being done at New York University.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the board meeting, Tretyakov described to the presidents how Russian spies used to go to campus events and mingle with professors. \u201cIt certainly seemed very bold to me that they felt they could interact with faculty and students and attend seminars,\u201d Spanier said. \u201cWe never really think about that happening on our campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2009, around the time Tretyakov was briefing the presidents, a Russian spy, Lidiya Guryeva, was pursuing a master\u2019s degree in business at Columbia under the name Cynthia Murphy<\/a>, the 2011 FBI report said. Russian intelligence instructed her to strengthen \u201cties w. classmates on daily basis incl. professors who can help in job search and who will have (or already have) access to secret info,\u201d and to report on their potential \u201cto be recruited by Service.\u201d<\/p>\n

Columbia and NYU declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Tretyakov died in June 2010. That month, Guryeva was arrested for acting as an agent of a foreign power and deported to Russia.<\/p>\n

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