CIA LOOKS TO COLLEGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200100002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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spring.
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"we're after. good' "Pao
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Most corporations and', govern- sick leave, regular hours; thei
ment agencies hire people who' CIA may hold a certain attrac-l
The subjects are tew u,at ?^- But for the tVue scholar, al
to interest the CIA. When CIA major drawback is the question
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recruiters visited the University of publication, Publication is
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e, the lifehood of scholarship and, - 11Fipld..Worlc' I I
of Colorado, for' examp
recruiter who vsited
Is who they wanted to see: the way, to prestige and repu- is ad
"People with any degree in tation. H
electricalengineering, engineer- Harvard alluded to "field ' ~i'ork
At "Harvard, a recruiter and .undefined activity which:
Ing physics, applied' mathemat- candidly admitted to. a student
Icy, physics, modern' languages, could be engaged in only after:
(especially Slavic or Oriental), he was interviewing that it can an apprenticeship spent in
t national be frustrating to work for an Washington.
newsman that "they're aft t el
campus intellectuals. Of
"'The CiA wants . exp rt%
said the director of Bosto U i-
varsitya placement office.
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zets on other. campuses have
Politically..actlviat s d ?is been similar, with ocCasiona
I ter la n- 'additions or deceotioes'readii
picketed the ig a
'Iter at Grinnell College in Io a. To many pP eat
jAgency ,recruiters have en ;list like this, it might aPP
picketed before, elsewhe e. that the agency was taking the
But despite its lack of f of re, long-winded way of saying it,
and de,r?ite occasional. OF ra-would take anybody, regardless
'cism, CIA is, on the w ?ol , a ? he whatgheed seec lrlly s rl.)rm
jpopulanr recruiter. i But. While the 1oy81 al,rl tins
A fine-print notice in t e Tar-
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,..~_, t.: a on? part is important, the grAb-bah
vary m,.,.,..,.,..,. -.-- .
column of similar notice o tit 1 agency, ?jn..e doe
coming of. various other C however, does claim t air taiming
drew 7 jobs for peo { .naoon oons,.in libraries c' ?..a c ..?<
ers, 2 'Ilae~'ard' t eatshave'tailor-made .
pie in each : t~f these , tlelds,~;,; d
Approved Fo
economics, histor'! I.. -11 agency that will not let your In general, agency recruiters,
affairs, and gP0g P y . friends and colleagues' ,in the while they do take care to drop
Afust Be Citizens scholarly world see,, and read the proper hints, are decidedly,
They also wanted to interview what you have done.. .
law oftsell, and
students; and graduate stn do" not do much.
'!Called, AigcFt, Coll te" rm-twisting.
dents ln.buginesg administration,; One recruiting brochure says: The recruiter at Yale did not
aeronautica l engineering,' me
"It's the agency's role to col- '1 o much beyond the fact that
chanical engineering and e
ice an-' tart: digest, collate' and inter- he himself "likes" the CIA.
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he recruiter surprisingly genial
President, of the United States
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must have.. ? nd soft-spoken.
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rs may
,Another CIA recruiting lure But some CIA recruit
is the' chance'to see, the world. react quickly when someone'
As a Tulane senior described mentions the Bay of Pigs, .or.
the' interview, '"The overseas; some "of the recent popular,
trip was his big drawing card,' books on the agency.
and he flashed it often" Try{e recruiter at Pomona ad-:
But when agency rcrruite",q, d students to find out about,
talk of the chance ,in carry out; , he CIA by reading Allen'.
a' career full 'of "excitement"1 ulles' books and not those of
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there is a strong likelihood tha .irresponsible, self-seeking jour-
their hearers do 'not helicve1Ialists:' __ `