RECRUITING ON CAMPUSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00154R000100070025-3
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 17, 2008
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: September 10, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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1SPECTOR GENERAL
NOTE FOR: Executive Director
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I don't think we have any special wisdom on this. Three
points: First, the Agency has been recruiting on campuses for 30
years, and I am unaware of anything that has happened in the last
year or two which is increasing our tendency to trip over our-
selves. In short, is this really a problem? Secondly, if we did
undertake to coordinate campus contacts by Agency personnel, I
can envision a considerable paper mill. Finally, in the unlikely
event we decide to increase the Office of Personnel's control
over the recruiting process, presumably they would be in a good
position to exercise this function, if it needs exercising!
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James H. Taylor
Inspector General
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10 September 1982
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Office of External Affairs
Deputy Director, Office of External Affairs
FROM: Coordinator for Acacemic Affairs, OEXA
SUBJECT: Recruiting on Campuses
1. 1 am writing to alert you to possible future problems in our
relations with academia that may require some thought and eventual
action.
2. Basically, the subject is recruiting on campuses and the rapid
expansion of that effort in recent months. Up until 1981, Recruitment
Division of OP di.d nearly all of the recruiting for Agency components.
Now the program appears to be increasingly decentralized. Whether this
is in response to dissatisfaction with Recruitment Division's effective-
ness is, for the purposes of this exercise, irrelevant. The simple fact
is, we have people from the DDO, various offices of the DDI, and the
Equal Employment Opportunity Office visiting colleges and universities
seeking new employees while our traditional representatives from Recruit
ment Division, are continuing their activities on the same STAT
campuses. There is an understandable tendency for CIA personnel to focus
on faculty members already known to be "friendly" to the Agency. Sooner
or later it would seem inevitable that one of these "friendly" faculty
members or a cooperative placement service is going to get irked by this
steady stream of visitors from CIA and the reaction could cause embarrass-
ment for the Agency.
3. At this point, I have no firm recommendation as to what, if any, .
action we should take. who is doing much of the recruiting STAT
for the DDO, has suggested that some effort at coordinating the activities
of the various directorates and offices should be attempted. He points
out that the title Coordinator for Academic Affairs might well point
toward where that effort should be focused. Granted, since OEXA is within
the DCI's area, it would seem logical that if an attempt to coordinate the
Agency's diversified recruiting activities is to be made, it be made here.
4. Before leaping into the breach, however, we should keep in mind
that we could be treading on rather sensitive turf. Any effort we made to
coordinate the actions of our multitudious recruiters would have to be
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gingerly-handled if we are not to stir up resentment and resistence
among the various offices concerned and particularly from Recruitment
Division itself:
5. A possible first -- and essentially innocuous -- step might
be to convene a meeting of representatives from the directorates and
independent offices involved under your sponsorship or mine. We could
at least find out what the scope of the problem is -- assuming there is
a problem -- and then determine what the next step should be.
6. Again, in conclusion, I am not seeking to inject myself in a
new role but I do believe we need to consider some action to prevent
possible future embarrassment to the Agency.
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