{"id":359894,"date":"2018-05-06T00:05:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T00:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T23:05:01","slug":"de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants\/","title":{"rendered":"De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research, lectured and worked with social movements and leftist governments in Latin America.  I interviewed US officials and think tanks in Washington and New York.  I have written scores of books, hundreds of professional articles and presented numerous papers at professional meetings.<\/p>\n<p>            In the course, of my activity I have discovered that many academics frequently engage in what government officials dub \u2018de-briefing\u2019!  Academics  meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.<\/p>\n<p>            US government officials look forward to these \u2018debriefings\u201d; the academic provided useful access to information which they otherwise could not obtain from paid, intelligence agents or local collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>            <em>Not all<\/em> academic informants are very well placed or competent investigators.  However, <em>many<\/em> provide useful insights and information especially on leftist movements, parties and leaders who are real or potential anti-imperialist adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>            US empire builders whether engaged in political or military activities depend on information especially regarding who  to back and who to subvert; who should receive diplomatic support and who  to receive financial and to military resources.<\/p>\n<p>            De-briefed academics identify&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/05\/de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research, lectured and worked with social movements and leftist governments in Latin America. I interviewed US officials and think tanks in Washington and New York. I have written scores of books, hundreds of professional articles and presented numerous papers at professional meetings. In the course, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-359894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}