KANSAS SCHOOLS CONFIRM RECRUITING VISITS OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200100007-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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!::"Kansas Schools-Confirm
Recruiting Visits of CIA'
t..
ing teams from the U.S. gov-
ernment's Central Intelligence
gency (CIA) regularly visit
tudents as prospective analysts
and agents.
Wichita State University, Kan-
sas State University and the
University of Kansas all re-
o r t e d CIA representatives
ave been at their schools
ALL THREE universities in-
dicated students show a lively
interest whenever the CIA men
visit the campus.
,,: t'I,,,think,;they1;e ~ v he
007 phase"', commented Don
ordon, director of placement
at Wichita State University.
'They see themselves as a
ames Bond character.
"Actually, there's a lot of
cry routine work to be done,
lot of paper-pushers in the
goncy, but the kids don't see
t that way," Jordon added.
HE SAID a CIA recruiter in-
erviewed students on. campus
ast November and indicated he
ould be.back again next fall.
"We had the biggest turnout
students we've had for any
mployment representative. He
as to be here two days, but
ad' so many interviews that
e stayed two and a half,?'. Jor-
??n..?.eid:?',.A,btwt,,:,85 tudeota
talked in private to the CIA
recruiter.
The recruitment program of
the super spy agency recently
gained national attention when
a small group of students at
Grinnell College, Iowa, picketed
a CIA man on the campus.
TILE STUDENTS displayed
posters asking what the CIA is
doing in Viet Nam, Indonesia,
and the Dominican Republic.
One sign said, "Where there Is
an invisible government there
is no democracy."
Shortly after the picketing in-
cident, Col. Stanley J. Grogan;
an assistant to CIA director
Adm. William F. Raborn, ad
mitted the college recruitment
campaign had been going on
since the agency was created
20 years ago, after World War
II, out of the old Office of Stra-
tegic Services.
"We want good people," Col.
Grogan told Associated Press
correspondent John M. High-
tower, "We're out looking for
them."
Roland S w a I m, director of
placement at Kansas State Uni-
versity, said CIA representa-
tives usually visit that school
twice a year, each semester.
One was on campus three days
last fall.
"We have 600 companies or
agencies visit the university ev-
is interested. only in very high
,went director of the College of
the University of Kansas, re-
:.ported a CIA man Interviewed
Rstudents,there for there. days In
flow from the NSA (National
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