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Another UPI Story About the CIA Disappears

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 21 September 2005
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Recently I was studying some television news video which was broadcast in May 2004, after the beheading of Nick Berg. Greta Van Susterin of Fox News asked a good question when she wondered why Berg, who had attended Ivy League schools, would decide to enroll at the less distinguished University of Oklahoma. She was interviewing William Brunch, who did not have much of an answer. He described Berg as an "idealistic" and "eccentric" young man who "wanted to travel." He concluded, "We’re not exactly sure how he found the University of Oklahoma, but that fits in with the pattern of his life."

Last year I came to suspect that Berg had been a CIA operative in the OU area had been supervised by David Boren and his protege George Tenet. Boren is a former U.S. Senator with close ties to the CIA. Interestingly, in the summer of 2001, Boren arranged for the appointment of another top spook to a "visiting professor" post at OU. This was David Edger, who had earlier been responsible for CIA surveillance over the Al Qaeda cell in Hamburg. The answer to Van Susterin’s question might be that Boren brought Berg to OU.

Recently UPI posted a story with this headline: Oxford dons blast CIA student
spies. This was listed by a Google news search:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&a...

When I clicked on the link, I was greeted with the news that UPI had yanked the story.

Another interesting coincidence is that former Rhodes Scholar Boren has ties to Oxford too.

UPI seems to be making a habit out of posting and then quickly removing articles about the CIA. Go here for documentation about other disappearing stories:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

See these for more information from my Nick Berg investigation:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php...

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  • Here is the article from the annals of lunacy, the Washington Times.

    Oxford dons blast CIA student spies

    Sep. 19, 2005 at 5:57PM

    Oxford academics have hit out at CIA funding for students in top universities around the world.
    Academics at Britain’s prestigious Oxford University claim that the funding, aimed largely at anthropology students, is undermining trust in the students’ ability to conduct impartial research among their subjects, the independent Oxford University student newspaper Cherwell said on its Web site, Cherwell.org.
    Cherwell said the CIA has offered Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholarships for the past year for agents-in-training studying anthropology, broadening their focus from science degrees. The scholarships are worth up to $50,000. Students sponsored by the scholarship are committed to working for the agency for at least 18 months after graduation.
    Prof. David Parkin, head of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford’s graduate anthropology department, told Cherwell that the scholarship program is "very harmful to anthropology". He argued that anthropologists take an "academically neutral position" and researchers would not be able to remain unbiased if they were to get involved with political organizations.
    There are up to 150 such scholarships awarded annually worldwide, although their location is secret.
    Parkin told the paper he doubted there were any CIA agents at Oxford because prospective students must explain how they will fund their studies on their applications.
    "If a student was funded by the CIA and it was clear they were funded by the CIA I would raise questions with the university," he said.