CIA A DIFFERENT LEAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200590047-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: October 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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student preparing to interview CIA should' consider the. danger
~__'zerent in CIA employment, They are there; and the CIA will no
ride the fact. ,
The prospective covert CIA employee certainly must undergo
searching psychological test and a careful examination of is back-
ground, his friends and his personal habits. The CIA is lookin
,for mature, stable,, exceptionally "clean" people; the' game tha
they are playing with other "CIAs" of other nations Is not on
that can de played by any damn fool that wanders in from the street
How can anyone possibly expect CIA employees to attend con.
ferences and present papers l? Their area 1s one in which pro
fessional recognition comes only in newspaper. headlines about
blown operations and egg-on-the-face. You will never hear %bou
the successful CIA ?jobs. And that is precisely why they are
successful.
If it took the ecanoitidlt some 08'a years and outiid~ hoip to
find another job, then he must have been trying.to jump from
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conomic warfare in the CIA to the Economics Chair at Harvard.
They are rather. different leagues--like minor and major. In this
quickly land some position in his chosen field; not necessarily at
'As for the CIA's reluctance to release their employees--why
but, of more importance, they have made them partners. in' plans
and operations that are of significant importance to the U.S.A.
The further away these people are, then the less control the CIA
has over their tongues. And tongue control is--and must be--a
Therefore, CIA employees do not discuss their work with their
durq,~. rani et tr~Qnkai Edien And _010 shut- mouth! policy are
~_~_?= aa= uvcwi~ -nu ministers wno are serving CIA em-
ployees and discussing the problems of these peo
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,.--or in private--then I would say that these doctors and ministers
are professionally irresponsible. Furthermore. If those being
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I`CIA people and their problems are no worse and not much different
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7tape, bossism, traffic, housing, money; cocktail parties, politics,
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etc. And Jr. Grams that there is an
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days of alcoholism, secret drug-taking, and family breakdown among
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ty professors and administrators, doctors, lawyers, mer-t
,';chants and, chiefs not to mention bank dicks and railroad brakemen.
Incidentally, I did not get my information on the CIA from econd-
mists, or unimpeachable sources
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;tors.. or ministers; I went down the CIA road for some years and
:came back again. I am neither happy nor sad over the experience..
the CIA is involved in a dirty and dangerous kind of work that
-:and, all that. Nevertheless, the work must be an?P~ - a- r?i' I
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