Espionage is no longer trench coats and dead drops — it's laptops and backpacks. Ghost Students uncovers how foreign governments infiltrate U.S. universities using student visas, academic grants, and research labs as intelligence frontlines. From China's Thousand Talents Program to digital dead drops in dorm rooms, this investigative deep dive exposes how America's education system has become a silent battleground for global surveillance, research theft, and covert recruitment.