CIA GOES TO COLLEGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-05795A000500080005-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 5, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Goes to College
Recruiters Use Soft Sell on Students
Nod-So-Secret other recruiters, drew 22 Harvard
By Martin Well to coast interviewed those seniors. ohs students last spring. said a
Washington Past staff writer Their reports to The Washington At the University of Texas
Accredited courses in espionage are Post comprise the bulk of material placement official there, the CIA
not offered at any of in 3016 United that can be gathered on CIA re- recruiter "never has any trouble find.
leges and universities in the Ued d ing people."
at the University of
States. cruiting.
Yet the C e n t r a l Intelligence A Princeton senior told a corre- Last spring
supersecret mammoth of spondent for The Washington Post Colorado, 82 students showed ur r
Agency, the that "They're (the CIA) after the interviews.
McLean, sends recruiters to some 100 campus intellectuals." The CIA actually has a recruiting
or so of them. "The CIA wants experts," said the brochure, which suggests to prospec-
Their avowed intention: To find d i'r e c t o r of Boston's University's tive their es country that some` a will pget to
?schalars, not spies. They are looking placement office. this hint of romance and adven-
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for people who can make sense
re
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They a
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bers for a kind of secret advanced to divulge what goes on in the inter
study institute an the Potomac, where view tends to hamper word of mouth
spies tell it only to scholars, who tell advertising.
it only to the President le who Recruiter Picketed
. What they everything from
know anything politically activist students picketed
anthropology to zoology' the recruiters last winter at Grinnell
'After Good People' College in Iowa. Agency recruiters
"We're after good people," Col. have been picketed before, elsewhere.
Stanley Grogan, agency spokesman, But despite its lack of fanfare, and
despite occasional ostracism, CIA is,
But the CIA's own recruiLe
a few things more to college seniors
across America this spring. And cor-
respondents on.campuses from coast
on the while, a popular recruiter.
A fine-print notice in the Harvard
Crimson, buried in a long column of
similar notices of the coming of vari-
.perhaps a few more 2iiai ,ui- VwI w ?.__
eople.
p
Wide Appeal
A veteran placement officer pL.
this way:
"Anytime you have an employer
who can use so many different kinds
of people, the turnout and govern-
large. Most corporations
ment to be
agencies hire people who have
a specific major.
The subjects are few that fail to
interest the CIA. When CIA this
ere visited Boulder, for' example,
is who they wanted ho see:
See CIA, F7, Col- 1
cbc
u4.
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1966
Associated Prose
1o analyze agents' repots.
CIA recruiters scour U. S. colleges for scholars e9[uipped'
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Thursday, May 5, 1966 F7
e lth Many Ski
~V ,
o t o~ Schola he book office listigs, that It was semor g at a le tter asng if
llshe said d
Loo ismis1I t the CIA recruiting. he was still interested In
CIA On
sewers at the th ency
,
much the et her intern
?working for our ag
at
thoroughness and self
"People with any degree sty,
in electrical engineering, en? expression."
gineering physics, applied When asked by a puzzled
mathematics, physics, mod- student whether a research-
ern languages, (especially er needed to be all that, he
Slavic or Oriental), econom- confessed that he probably
ics, history, international af- did not.
fairs, and geography-" But, be hinted, there were
They also wanted to inter- indeed some other job s
view law students, andgrad-which might test the mettle
lato ne aeronautical
engineering, mechanivd.en-
gineering and chemistry.
(All must be American citi
(All
zens, of course-)
Lists on other campuses
have been similar, with oc-
casional additions or dele-
tions.
To many people reading a
list like this, it might aP?
pear that the agency was
taking the long-winded way
of saying it would take any.
body, regardless of hWhat ee
studied, so long as risk.
,good security
of just such paragons .
For the research jobs,
girls appear to be welcome
enough. The recruiter at
Berkeley said that li matt
10 per cent of his app
were girls.
But outside of these more
mundane jobs, the opPor-
tunities for girls seem to
dwindle.
A bright Sophie New-
comb College senior didn't
think the man had much at
all for her.
"He kept looking at his
watch," she explained.
Another girl haade u said I
the same story. in some
could be a secretary so i
foreign country.
was uninteresting. To him
it seemed like some kind of
super-secret big dead."
in general, Agency re-
cruiters, while they doop e
care to drop the
hints, are decidedly soft'
sell, and don by declaring
placement office. Recruiters at the Umver he wondered ,whose
arm,Thetwisting. recruiter at Yale "He seemed very uncool, was not a government, and city of Colorado once listed
c s move onto themselves only as "govern agency?"
didn't go much beyond the unsophisticated, more like a' not ev as "g They Still another indication
h They that the agency believes in
andfather image." the themselves o ly , and the practice after
fait that he himself "liked" CIA recruiters may react the college campus stopped was in its recruiting
the CIA. Keeton quickly when someone men- thus, into the public ae ' is finding that nobody security
Students at of Pigs, or far from a renunciation of that interested o talking to was observed recently by a
found the recuiter surpris bona the Bay ular its traditional policies o ceton and surprise en some. of the recent pop "government r e p r e is e nta Hne began to quiz a fellow senior.
re boot the Agency. secrecy. hives. " student who he knew had
Even more suprlae 1h rulter at Pomona c is unusual not ask the when the Sometimes the recruiter talked to the CIA in had
registered by student will hand out applications
Tulare. advised students to fiord out student recruit to sign an oath the interview session. viewer.
"He did not look like a about the CIA by reading a the at he mails them. It wasn't long before he
" they said. "He Allen Dulles's books and pledging not to dh ter other times, got a call from Washington
recruiter, irresponsible, contents time, he interview. The travel through the telling him that his aeons,
clothes did not for a have the recruiter. usual He not those self-seeking of j ourn'alists- At one tiit was CIA's mails in unmarked station- ties were contrary to the
One such, he said, was the hope that It
had on a gray shirt, green would not have ery
tie, and blue coat. These "Invisible Government" to reveal to the entire cut through placement When a Boston College national interest-
made him stand out among ,It makes me indignant,"
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