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SPY SCHOOLS: ACADEMIC ESPIONAGE
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SPY SCHOOLS: ACADEMIC ESPIONAGE

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Grade Level Grades 9-12
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  HOW DOES ACADEMIC ESPIONAGE ON FOREIGN AND AMERICAN CAMPUSES AFFECT NATIONAL SECURITY AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM?

Objectives:  SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source complex text, videos and articles on the academic espionage toward skill building for the AP Government and Politics Exam.

Citations:

BOOK:  Golden, Daniel (2018) Spy Schools:  How the CIA, FBI and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities.  New York:  Henry Holt & Company (Pgs. 3-16; 20-33; 137-161)

WARM UP:  Video – Daniel Golden – CSPAN (20 mins.)

Discusses established spy rings at American universities at Wisconsin Book Festival

https://www.c-span.org/video/?436317-3/spy-schools

HOMEWORK ARTICLES:

50 U.S.C. 36 §1885-1885(c) - Protection of Persons Assisting the Government – Reporting Requirements

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-36

Foreign Policy Research Institute (May 2018)

https://www.fpri.org/article/2018/05/the-2017-fisa-reporting-season-has-ended-what-do-the-numbers-mean/

Non-Registration as Foreign Agent Under FISA/Sam Patten

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w-samuel-patten-washington-dc-lobbyist-charged-with-failing-to-file-as-foreign-agent-2018-09-01/

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property rights and economic policy
The Constitution aims to protect, among other freedoms, individual and group rights to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition, and freedom of religion. The extent to which these ideals exist in practice and how these protections should be applied in a changing world continues to be an issue of ongoing civic debate.
civil liberties—protecting individual liberties from governmental abuses; the balance between government and the individual

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