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June 22, 2009

Obama Admin Wants to Bring Spy Training Program to Colleges
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The Obama administration has proposed offering federal money to colleges
and universities to help train students to become spies for the CIA and
other intelligence agencies. The Washington Post reports the
intelligence officer training program would function much like ROTC, the
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps run by the military with the government
subsidizing the cost of school in return for future service. However,
unlike ROTC, the students’ participation in the spy training program
would likely be kept secret.



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