{"id":110768,"date":"2018-05-14T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=110768"},"modified":"2018-05-10T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T11:45:12","slug":"de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/05\/de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants\/","title":{"rendered":"De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>3 May 2018 &#8211;<em> Over the past half-century, I have been engaged in research, lectured and worked with social movements and leftist governments in Latin America. I interviewed US officials and think tanks in Washington and New York. I have written scores of books, hundreds of professional articles and presented numerous papers at professional meetings.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the course of my activity I have discovered that many academics are frequently engage in what government officials dub \u2018de-briefing\u2019! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/b2-img\/PetrasDeBriefingAcademics.pdf\" >Read essay [PDF]<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>___________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/James-Petras.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><em>James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the author of more than 62 books published in 29 languages, and over 600 articles in professional journals. He has a long history of commitment to social justice, working in particular with the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement for 11 years. In 1973-76 he was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. He writes a monthly column for the Mexican newspaper, <\/em><em>La Jornada<\/em><em>, and previously, for the Spanish daily, <\/em><em>El Mundo<\/em><em>. He received his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/petras.lahaine.org\/de-briefing-academics-unpaid-intelligence-informants\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 petras.lahaine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 May 2018 &#8211; Many academics are frequently engage in what government officials dub \u2018de-briefing\u2019! They meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and personal contacts over lunch at the Embassy with US government officials or in Washington with State Department officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":66207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia-knowledge-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}