COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE FLOCKING TO NEW CIA JOB OPPORTUNNITIES

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April 1, 1976
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T11E GLOBE (NORTHERN VIRGDIIA Approved For Release 2Q0fi=71,(A-RDP86B00985R ... 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. Copyright 1976 Pacific NEWS Service Approved For Release 2006/10/17: CIA-RDP86B00985R000100060019-5