Former State Department official Mike Benz revealed Thursday what he said was a long-standing and covert collaboration between top U.S. intelligence agencies and Ivy League institutions.
In his podcast streamed through X, Benz said these relationships date back to the end of the Cold War and demonstrate a strategic merger between academia, intelligence, and philanthropy. Benz traced what he said was the formation of a covert network where philanthropic organizations, often perceived as neutral, became instruments of intelligence agencies.
“That merger, as we’ve talked about so many times now, between intelligence, academia and philanthropy,” Benz said. Benz points to declassified CIA documents from 1999, which show that, as far back as 1951, the CIA enlisted philanthropies to fund and influence universities. This collaboration aimed to modernize education systems abroad, especially in countries where the U.S. had geopolitical interests.
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