THE CIA ATTRACTS THE CURIOUS IN A BIG WAY AT STANFORD

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
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• Publication Date: March 3, 1984
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PHILADELPHIA INQUThZR
3 March 1984
The CIA attracts thecunous
in. a big way .a Stanford
By Kathy Holub Bill Cooley, the CIA's recruitment period of growth as its first genera.
"'+ w" Effyke officer in San Francisco, said he now tion of recruits reaches retirement
PALO ALTO. Calif. - The man in received 100 to 200 applications a age, and needs more . people than
the gray suit saw a likely target and . year from Stanford students - about;. ever. leaped. SO percent more than in the mid=:.
"Hi, there. Are you iaterested?n 1970L Student interest also is in.' Stanford ' is a prime. hunting
something special?" he asked. with creasing at the University of Calitor ground because of :thecaliber of its
the air of someone selling expensive niaat Berkeley sad other bay 4M i graduates, they said.
Jewelry. colleges, he said
"Uh, - "Me visit to Stanford . was preceded
no," the student- ?mumbled:.: Cooley does not pretend to know `by three full-page advertisements in
"1'm a political science major, and Ill why things have changed ao dramatis; the campus: newspaper, a mass mail.
be interviewing with you tomor- ' ford studndemteon stra$, when Sian- lug to about .1,000 Stanford students, callY since the physical--- a plastering'of posters all over cam-
"Ah!" said the recruiter, gratifie& ly blocked their . classmates from pus, and. two days of radio spots on
'Then you'd be interested in over...meeting with CIA recruiters. , the campus station. The advertising
seas assignments." . "There's a certain amount of corr. woe estimated to cost about $5,000.
As he led the young man away,'his qty now," he said. "Most people For .the briefings and interviews
co-recruiters from the CIA were wel. don't understand the agency that themselves, 10 CIA officials new out
coming dozens more Stanford Uni. well. Beyond that, a lot of people are ,.'from Washington - 'an. expensive
versity students this week. to the interested in jobs..". _ : and usual recruitment effort. Such
agency's biggest, most expensive About 15 demonstrators did show a strategy has been used only once
campus recruiting effort -in recent upon Wednesday to protest the LTAs 'before in the recent past, at t e Mai-.
memory. involvement In Nicaragua, but they_ sachusetts institute of Technology in
It worked better than -anyone at could not have been more polite. October. That
the CIA session drew a smaller.-
had dreamed. When Magee made it..clear that he audience of 100 students, about 35 of
At least 150 students dropped by. -would not' answer `their ? questions, whom signed -up for interviews,
the Tressider Student Union on cam. from the podium Val sot going to CIA officials said they would wait
pus Wednesday for hot coffee, fresh get into a debate en policy because to see how many people they
donuts. free CIA pens and so-called it's really actually major not my bag " he told them hire from the two sessions before
briefings from CIA division - they made a short statement and' 1 _ they
ey spend more money in that way;
left,
.. Stanford senior Paul Tobaek, a po.
Even better, from the CIA's point ' Those who -stayed beard that the iitical science major, said he had
of view, were the 80 students - in. _ CIA is looking for a few good people. attended the briefing out of curiosity
cluding the sought-after majors in They. heard that "spies are not glam- and found it "boring" and "simplis.
engineering and computer science emus - they're. people just like you tic."
who signed up for ,interviews.; and me. " They -heard that working . Not Myra Smith; a sophomore ma.
'"They're not throwing rocks at us. for the CIA_wiil.not make them fam- losing in applied.math. "Tminierest..
anymore," said an, exultant Bob Mo. ous or rich -starting salaries.range ed In covert operations because t like
gee. CIA director of personnel. from 519,000 to ' $25,000. to be in places I'm not, supposed to,"
They heard that a CIA career is he said.
Far from it.. The CIA is having a "exciting and filled with diversity." "I've always been a person who
banner year on college campuses,-.. They also heard the term "best and ` likes to defeat systems, like
and Stanford, 3o miles south of San brightest" mentioned at least a dozen alarms. Being in the CIA would r
Francisco in Pala Alto, is no excep times most be like being a criminal -
tion. The. CIA, officials said, is fa "
cing a ' 1e6~Y
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