Spies in the Classroom: How Universities Are Training the Next Generation of Intelligence Officers Chuppala Nagesh Bhushan From the Paris suburbs to the banks of the Thames, a quiet revolution is reshaping how democratic nations develop their intelligence professionals. The Campus That Trains Spies On a grey morning on the outskirts of Paris, a university professor takes attendance. It is, by most appearances, an ordinary ritual — except that several names on his list are almost certainly false. Professor Xavier Crettiez, a researcher specialising in jihadism at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye, has grown accustomed to the uncertainty. "I rarely know the intelligence agents' backgrounds when they are sent on the course," he says, "and I doubt the names I'm given are genuine anyway." Welcome to France's so-called 'School for Spies': the Diplôme sur le Renseignement et les Menaces Globales — the Diploma on Intelligence and Global Threat...