The FBI wants MIT to help weed out foreign spies

US law enforcement is taking some new steps against espionage and intellectual property theft on university campuses. They’re aimed at Russia, Iran, North Korea and, especially, China. But these measures are putting some researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge on edge, as GBH Boston’s Kirk Carapezza reports.

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