Lucia Ziobro, acting assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s counterintelligence branch in Boston, said, “We’re not out there to recruit people and place spies in the academic setting.”
Erik J Dahl, a counter-intelligence specialist and research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, said, “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the FBI or other elements of the government reaching out to academia.”
But he voiced doubts about how successful it would be in uncovering plots. “It just doesn’t seem likely that a foreign terrorist or a homegrown terrorist would be getting tips for his next plot on a university campus.”
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