TRIP TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, MAY 15 AND 16.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61S00137A000100140136-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 15, 2001
• Sequence Number: 136
• Publication Date: May 22, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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Assistant Director for Research and Reaorta 22 May 11
Chief, Economic Research Area.
Chief Industrial Division,, O
Trip to the University
5 and 16.
1. The objectives of this trip were to interview in applican
for employment-who, having received full clearances, cancelled their
applications a to review our recruiting effort at the University wit
qualified members of the faculty.
Interviews were held with the following people
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senior member of the faculty in economics and a close personl friend
of the writer.
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0 has. definitely cancelled hi. application
explains this in terms of a growing eonvict1 t wa .ts the academic
life rather than research. is reactivating his ppIicIt5X1 A5a1
tion and is thiring in. terms of comming with the Agency at the end of
the fall semester (February 19'~~7). He will be corresponding with
shortly. In connection with his application, we
01"M e assuu tion that it will be possible for him to take his
medical urination and his final security interview prior to his
I.O.D. date. ideally, this should take place in the first part of
November sea that he can give appropriate notice to the University
after the results of the medical examination and security interview
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4. As did is asking for a years leave25X1A5a1
of absence from the University with the expectation that he will
remain with CIA if he finds the work to be agreeable. In the event
he does not like it, he oula plan to return to the University in
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. conversation with was not very fruitful. I
t believe that he is going ohis day to advise possible
is against CIA. However, if someone comes to him I cannot
hat he would have -anything favorable to sey about us.
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3JMT Trip to the University of T11inois, May 15 and
do ,1 block on this subject mod. nothing I could
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in is very poorly organized, that the work could perfor d mart-
e 'f'ielently on a contract basis aud that no one in OBR is willing to
make the, corrections wIIich he consider to be necessary. He implies
that hie dissatisfaction le a result of the research inadequacies he
discovered. This does not "Jibe" with the known fact that lie had
initiated a move to return to the University before I October and
before e had had an opportunity, to het a sort of a feel for the
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not been very kirk. to this, ,group. Undoubtedly - 25X1A9a
ed gettis out of this situation
to absorb the remaining members of the ?`but group o that life is a
little more bearable.
At present, the In" group is triing
ill return. It also suggests that we. should take a hard loo 'k, at
done rr adv. recruiting problems. There is a ahorta g of econo:? ste.
Turnover academic it titutihne is hi .a the problem for them of
replacing losses is difficult. In one Qense this is a source of
comfort misery laves corapany) but more importantly it suggests that
we have to continue making a reasonably big effort for a relatively
`. One final general c bser,vatton is pertinent. Mj discussion
brought once amain to ' mind the fact that CIA is not
internal procedure to see if there isn't sty way of reducing
lase and. the uncertainties for those people who do j
security interview in advance of the date when a man must a evor an
existing relationship is a step in the right direction.
with us, ftking provisions for the medicate c ation and the
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