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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210003-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2000/05/24: CIMX-
FEB 1 4 1964
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By RON LEYS
Morning Star Staff Writer
In the best cloak-and-dagger
tradition a representative of the
Central Intelligence Agency vis-
ited Rockford Thursday.
He didn't find what he was
looking for and left as quickly
as he had come.
But he did admit a few facts
to a reporter who found him at
the, Rockford College Campus.
Name: L. H. Gage. Occu-
pation: Personnel representa-
tive for the CIA.
Vrom there on it was a tough
;n~erview.
Gage wouldn't have his pic-
ture taken, explaining only that
the CIA doesn't look kindly on
having it's employes pictures
in the paper.
We try to go about our
work as quietly as we can,"
he said quietly.
Loosening up a bit, he ad-'
muted that he works out of a
Chicago office,' but refused to
say more about the office ex-Journalism.
cept that he was its only oc-! It probably helps to know how
cupant. to-fly a U-2.
When pressed, he said he had!
come to Rockford College to in
Iterview students interested in
working for the CIA.
He talked to only one stu-
dent, but had found out that the
student plans to go into the
armed forces after graduation.'
Neither lie nor the college ad-
ministration would identify the;
student.
Asked how many persons he
interviews yearly, he said, "I
don't even tell my boss in
Washington that."
For further information, he
said he could only refer the re-
porter to a brochure about em-
ployment opportunities with the
CIA.
The brochure had undoubted-
ly been scanned by dozens of
agents and found free of any!
incriminating information.
It said, "The new employe
will find both opportunity and
encouragement to progress in
professional stature and re-
sponsibility. The agency pro-
vides its employes an environ-
ment conducive to intellectual
satisfaction and harmonious as-
sociations."
Nothing more was s a i d
about the environments a CIA
agent was likely to find him-
self in nor about those "bar.;
monious associations."
It left much to the imagina-
tion.
Among the specific skills the
CIA is looking for are persons
who know something about for,
estry, geography, history, ecoa
nomics, library science a n d
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