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John KrigeJohn Krige, Kranzberg Professor Emeritus in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article "Have Chinese Spies Infiltrated American Campuses?" on March 14, 2022, in The New Yorker.
An excerpt:
With the money came unprecedented secrecy regulations and loyalty oaths. John Krige, a historian of science and technology, told me that academics accepted the compromise: “They were willing to sacrifice a certain amount of freedom to publish as long as the spigot was open.”
