I just found this:
CIA Funded Programs at ColumbiaBy Compiled FROM College newspapers (source: thecrimson.com)
April 26, 1980NEW YORK--The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) directed research projects at Columbia University in the 1950s and '60s, sometimes channeling funds through supposedly independent organizations such as the National Science Foundations, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported April 17.
The newspaper, which based its series of articles on thousands of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act after two years of legal struggles with the CIA, said the information "calls into question the integrity of current as well as former Columbia faculty members and administrators."
Frequently the researchers at Columbia--both students and teachers--were unaware the CIA was funding their studies, and when the researchers knew they often did not inform colleagues and administrators of their connections with the agency.
Twice, CIA employees worked at Columbia to direct CIA-financed projects. One study, which lasted until 1969, concerned "the national income and product of Soviet and satellite economies," and was ostensibly sponsored by the School of International Affairs.
More at source.
My mother in law graduated from Columbia when Dwight Eisenhower was President of Columbia.
He signed her diploma.
Obama graduated Columbia and went to work for a CIA front company after graduation.