COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE FLOCKING TO NEW CIA JOB OPPORTUNNITIES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
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• Publication Date: April 1, 1976
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... Students /
`T . CIA " Job Opportunities
"Unique employment op-
portunities, international
travel, mystery, good pay,
many benefits - all yours
when working for this well
established international
corporation."
Sound like a dream job?
It's the CIA's latest
recruitment pitch to college
seniors and graduate
students across the country.
And nearly the only
response from students -
even on campuses that were
hostile during the Vietnam
War years - has been to beat
down the doorsto get in for
interviews with recruiters. j
According to CIA officials
in Washington, D..C. and
Boston, student interest in
working for the counter-
intelligence agency is in-
preasiag.
A CIA-sponsored minori-
recently in Washington,
D.C., drew more than 60
ed as just another govern-
ment agency.
Student protests-have
been scattered and ineffec-
tual.
Demonstrations at
Berkeley, UCLA, University
of Michigan and Michigan
State University have
produced no change in cam-
penses were paid by the ~ But . at the Univ. of
CIA. # California at San Diego,
Michigan State University at
East Lansing and the
University of California at
Berkeley all came to talk
with the CIA about employ-
ment opportunities.
A University of Michigan
employment recruiter at the
conference said the campus
president Davis Saxon was
forced to leave the campus
by police car after anti-CIA
groups stopped him from
addressing the academic
ment.
Shortly after the distur-
bance, the senate defeated a
proposal requiring full dis-
closure of CIA-university
connections,, which would
have banned CIA campus
CIA, but "encouraged the,e j recruitment and stopped
CIA to come back to cam- agency research by faculty
pus." members.
Most of the career place-' The CIA, in adver-
ment officials said it was tisements, makes special
their duty to provide all itch for Ph. D. candidates
possible employment oppor- doing research. The agency
tunities for students. offers one of the few oppor-
Company Pitch
The CIA's pitch is simple.
The agency is playing down
its role in political murders.
toppled governments, Mafia
collaborations and domestic
spying. The CIA is being bill-
tunitie's for employment in
research; said Robert Ginn,
associate director of career
placement at Harvard, with
the opportunity to publish
"substantive scholarly
research" throughout the in-
tellectual and intelligence
community.
Publicity Helps
Ginn speculated that re-
cent publicity on the CIA's
activities actually helped
recruitment activities
because "it makes the kids
think about the agency."
Whatever illegal and cor-
rupt CIA actions may be dis-
closed, there are practical
considerations - jobs and
research money-- that now,
hold a high priority for
graduating university.
students.
"Why should they
protest?" asked Angus
Thurrner, assistant to the
director of the CIA, "Jobs
are very scarce these days."
The CIA internship
program for foreign studies
has received more than 1,-
000 inquiries for 50
openings. Internship
program participants, about
half' of whom become
fulltime CIA employees,
come from a wide range-of
colleges, including Harvard,
Yale and the Univ. of
Chicago. They receive
monthly salaries of between
Students accepted into
the program come from a
wide range of disciplines I
and usually at the top of I
their classes, with masters
degrees or higher.
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Pacific NEWS Service
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