Excellent article and hats off indeed to the young Fulbright scholar who raised the alarm. I don't agree at all with 'Wolf's' ascertion that this is unreasonable. If Cuban or Venezuelan students were spying on US citizens, there would be an outcry, declarations of terrorism and George Bush would no doubt claim that this was proof of Chavez's 'evil' socialism.
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I completely agree with your statement Marshalldoc. It seems to me that Wolf has very little understanding of the history of espionage or the CIA. The current deceitful dealings of the Bush administration, whether in the Middle East or in Latin America would make anyone with any intelligence or knowledge of current US foreign policy, suspicious of being asked to take on subversive activities whilst being a guest in another country. Such actions would not only add to the global distaste for US imperialism, but help serve the current administration's passion for torture, renditions, and illegal incarceration without due process. …
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