Again, the US gathered its espionage intelligence powers to use them against Lebanon, this time through breaching the Lebanese sovereignty in foreign territories.
This time, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is directly affiliated, as it mingles in the students' clubs, among which Lebanese are members, in US universities, in an attempt to recruit espionage agents, al-Akhbar Lebanese daily reported.
In this context, the Lebanese daily asserted that this "scheme" has been ongoing since 2008 in the many US universities, after one of the US-Lebanese students' associations decided to gather the Lebanese students in several US cities and offer them an annual recruiting and volunteering door at the CIA.The daily further reported that a group of Lebanese-Americans studying in US universities joined a charity organization called The Lebanese Collegiate Network (LCN). The said network seeks to gather as much Lebanese-containing clubs in the US, and to join them in one network.
So far, al-Akhbar stated, the LCN succeeded in "embracing" around 20 college clubs with Lebanese members. It also has been organizing, since its establishment, seminars about the CIA, and the most recent was last week in Los Angeles.
In a direct relation, the daily further unveiled the CIA's years-long financial contributions at the LCN; a blatant breach of the CIA laws of performance within the US territories. Questions are raised on whether the US administration and congress are aware of the aforementioned spending. Other questions are raised on what Lebanon would do to protect the Lebanese from the ongoing US -intelligence schemes to breach the national sovereignty; in or outside Lebanon, the daily iterated.
Source: al-Akhbar Newspaper, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
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