AMATEUR HOUR IN THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100230022-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: September 6, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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Waved off fib annoyance anb.disbclief .by' Office of Strategic Seivrclt, 0~' +1ltl theft A r
r;:?st Americans were, recrnt sto it's 00M , is in' oulgro9Vth. .Native Ar is }'{re
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'country he. was visiting, he said, apd he' did the Departments of Yoshi Treasury. Pta,,? t
not. think It safe for an utter nennhyte- like wae__ .A_-.. .r___ '.... ..i. . __. ;?:
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recruit In this most chic of bureaucracies to the kind
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refused to enter Into the spirit of tiie ttdng, fs,
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tourists, ,and no doubt some of them lire --s ....v w wit ate n laonances,,ie
amnnn thai . ~.In.t4. &S-.& 711116 Y Practical solution to this' Arobnt
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