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> recruiting databases for foreign nationals who went abroad to the US for graduate studies and are being assessed as potential intelligence assets by their professors

Is this for real?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Duffie_Shriver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8xlUNK4JHQ

(I would like to see corresponding movies warning students coming to study in the U.S. about U.S. government attempts to recruit them.)

Yes, it also happens in the reverse direction. Foreign nationals going abroad with the goal of gaining intelligence from professors.

When I was a research assistant in college in the US, we had an Iranian student apply to work with us several times, even after we told him no the first time. We were researching the properties of yellow cake uranium for the Department of Energy! Obviously there are strict rules on that kind of work, hiring him would have been VERY illegal, but he still kept bugging us even after telling him that.

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