CIA RECRUITING TEMPLE GRADS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100160058-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 20, 2011
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: October 7, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE TEMPLE UNIVERSITY NEWS
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
7 OCTOBER 1980
maste1' degrees in Arabic,
Chinese, Hungarian, Japanese,''
languages are also in great de-
mand, as are students with
masters or PhDs in history, inter-
By-ANDY ANDREWS recruiting programs on many col-
News Staff Writer lege campuses, including Temple.
In an unmarked room on the recruiting was requested during a
11th floor of the : U.S: -Federal phone conversation with the
Building on 600 Arch St:, Philadelphia CIA personnel offices
Philadelphia, is the office of one. of but could not be obtained. Accor-
the. most covert. organizations in ding to the secretary, "You can't
the?world: the Central Intelligence see the CIA unless they want to
-Agency (CIA)...,. } ' ,';:,
see- you." .
When the News phoned the This office - refers .those in
Philadelphia CIA offices to find terested in applying to the CIA to
their exact location, a secretary..
answered, "I'm sorry, but we are the personnel representative and
not permitted to release that kind will not reveal anything more
of information." %about their organization.
In a Feb. 22, 1980 letter to
Students - interested in joining, Leonard Garrett, chairman of
this secretive organization' can Temple's computer information.
send their resumes to the person- science department, from Elissa
nel representative 'at P.O. Box Allen, personnel recruiter for the
1774, Philadelphia, PA 19105. CIA's Philadelphia office, Allen
However, the CIA makes it discussed the "excellent benefits
easier for= students to do high- and salaries" the CIA offers.
paying work by - staging active "I spend at least one day a year
at Temple University interviewing
graduating students," Allen
stated in the letter. The CIA is
searching, she wrote, "for
qualified individuals- in the data
processing field."
Allen. was not available for fur-
ther comment-
Students who major in: any field'
related to informatiow handling
and processing, especially the
fields of- 'computer/science
,
engineering, and economics, are-
sought by CIA recruiters annually
at universities.
Graduates with bachelors or,
national relations, physics,
political science, and psychology.
However, Garrett did not know
when the CIA would be recruiting
at Temple this year.
'I' don't handle any of those fob -
things." he said in a telephone in-
terview. According to Garrett, in-.
formation of that type could be ob-
tained from Eugene !,,:vatny, a.
Temple assistant professor of com-
puter'- science, who handles CIA j
applications.
"They (CIA) always send - me
packets of announcements looking
for interested students," Kwatny
said. He is required by his depart-
ment to ..-post those an-
nouncements through the com-
puter science building. Kwatny
said that he had one CIA postcard
application in his office.
This application can be filled out
by any interested student and
mailed to the Philadelphia CIA of-
fices.
Kwatny contends, however, that
the computer science department
maintains . "no direct contact"
with the CIA. -
In a Temple lecture on CIA's
secret manipulations last April,
Louis Wolf, co-editor of the Cover.
tAction Information Bulletin,
said, "The CIA wants to bring in
people out of colleges and univer-
sities and train- and brainwash-
them to work in the interest of the
CIA." r ;:,
Another Bulletin - cb-editor,
William Schaap,_ said, "The CIA
works on a large scale on campus-
while -most students and ad-
ministrators aren't aware of it."
The last Temple CIA recruit-
ment workshop, according to
Wolf, was held in October, 1979.
Wolf said' the workshop "is one
program that should be in-
vestigated.','..,
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