This must be the easiest recruitment ever since leftist American academics are already “influence agents” of communist ideas…

Via Washington Free Beacon:

Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week.

Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use to the [Cuban intelligence service],” the five-page unclassified FBI reportsays. It notes that the Cubans “devote a significant amount of resources to targeting and exploiting U.S. academia.”

“Academia has been and remains a key target of foreign intelligence services, including the [Cuban intelligence service],” the report concludes.

One recruitment method used by the Cubans is to appeal to American leftists’ ideology. “For instance, someone who is allied with communist or leftist ideology may assist the [Cuban intelligence service] because of his/her personal beliefs,” the FBI report, dated Sept. 2, said.

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Two observations:

(1) The Soviets did much the same in the 30s and were quite successful in developing agents out of the elitist colleges of Cambridge in England and Harvard in the US. Philby and Hiss and several others came from that milieu, were recruited early on, and went on to have remarkable and deadly careers in their respective governments.

(2) The fact the Communists have had their greatest successes with academia is clear evidence of the bankruptcy of Marxist ideas. Marx taught the revolution would arise from the workers when, in fact, since Lenin (a well educated lawyer) it has been led by intellectuals including Castro (also a lawyer), and Guevara (a doctor).