CIA RECRUITS MORE, PROF SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201030021-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SAN JOSE MERCURY (CA)
3 FEBRUARY 1982
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11!gtoa. said his agency "does have the responsibility to Stanford man Bob Beyers said the university
collect foreign intelligence in the United States. We do long has allowed the CIA to recruit students openly.?,
make contact with individuals, who do voluntarily
,want to provide" the CIA with information.
. This is not unnsuaL. We've been doing it 25 years or
cnore7" Peterson said:'
Roth said "the n=vitfng is subtly done."