LETTER TO(Sanitized)FROM KELLY C. KAMERER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-01114R000100010034-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 13, 2002
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: August 14, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

STATINTL
STAT
STATINTL
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August 14, 1974
The Central Intelligence Agency has forwarded to us a copy
of your May 26, 1974, letter in which you seek employment
with them at the conclusion of your Peace Corps Volunteer
service.
Just as the Peace Corps does not accept as Volunteers or staff
members those people who have served with an intelligence
agency, so the Peace Corps has asked, and the intelligence
agencies have agreed, not to employ former Peace Corps
Volunteers for at least five years after the completion
of their service in the Peace Corps, and, if employed after
such period, not to assign the former Volunteer to any
country in which he had trained or served with the Peace Corps.
The Central Intelligence Agency is one of the agencies which
has agreed not to employ a former Volunteer or staff member
in any capacity prior to the completion of five years after
his termination from the Peace Corps.
I know that you, as a Peace Corps Volunteer, understand the
reasoning behind this policy. As the Peace Corps has lost
some talented people as Volunteers or staff members because
of their background in intelligence work, so the intelligence
agencies have lost the services of some able men and women
who have previously served in the Peace Corps, but we believe
that these sacrifices are justified by the public interest
in preventing any relationship, or any appearance of a
relationship, between the Peace Corps and intelligence agencies.
Sincerely,
Kelly C. Kammerer
Deputy General Counsel for
International Operations
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