THE CIA WANTS YOU, IF YOU'RE AN IMAGERY SCIENTIST OR ENGINEER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200930014-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 15, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT & CHRONICLE (NY)
15 March 1982
The C- wants you,
if you're an imagery
scientist or engineer
By John Gallagher
Democrat and Crronide
The Central Intelligence Agency is looking
here for a fewgood men and women.
And contrary to the clandestine way that
characters in spy novels recruit. help, the
CIA is open about it.
The agency took out an advertisment in
yesterday's Sunday Democrat and.Chroni-
cle, seeking "imagery scientists and engi-
neers" to work at the National Photographic
Interpretation Center in Washington, D.C.
The spy agency wants people adept. at
photogrammetry, digital image processing,
image science, and engineering and equip-
ment services.
Basically, that means interpreting photos
shot by spy satellites, and keeping the nec-
essary equipment running.
"The job is not adventurous," said Russell)
Kraus, director of Rochester Institute of
Technology's School of Photographic Arts
"You're sitting behind a desk or piece.of
equipment all day looking at snapshots. It's
anything but glamorous."
RIT, with its state-of-the-art photography
programs; is one of the places where appli-
cants may come from. The University of
Rochester and, perhaps, the Eastman -
Kodak Co. could be others.
Kraus thinks the CIA will run into stiff
competition from industry in recruiting tal-
ent.
Businesses are now paying RIT graduates
starting salaries of $25,000 to $28,000.
"That's for a youngster with a bachelor's
degree and 21, 22,years of age," he added.
The CIA's advertisement said pay'would
range tom $15,922 to $33,566, depen g
on experience and qualifications.
The ad said applicants must be citizens o
the United States, have at least a bachelor's
degree, and pass a background investigation.
For more information, a call was Placed
to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., in
suburban Washington.
A crisp voice that identified itself as Jim
pritchart, security duty officer, said the
agency places ads in publications such as
the New York Times, Washington Post and
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Pritchart agreed the ad may have run in
the Democrat and Chronicle because of this
area's wealth of photographic talent and
training centers.
Quirks of CIA-style security popped up
during the brief conversation with Pritchart.
Although willing to say the CIA hires 1,500
to 3,000 people a year out of more than
150,000 applicants, he refused to say how
many people work for the CIA.
"I can't. That's classified," he said.
Photogrammetry, Kraus explained, is the
science of measuring distances between ob-
jects in photographs. -
You might want to know the distance
between point A and point B. He may see
an object and want to know how Tong it is.
Is it a barracks, an outhouse, or what?"
Kraus speculated that much of the work
will probably involve interpreting photos of
an economic or agricultural nature.
'The military takes more agriculture
photos than any other agency. Wouldn't you
like to know if your enemy forces are going
to have enough food to eat next year?"
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