CIA RECRUITING CITY POLICE FOR TEMPORARY POSITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100410011-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: October 28, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
28 October 1986
CIA Recruiting City Police
For Temporary Positions
Overseas Terrorism Is Possible Target
agency spokeswoman said vester-
United Press International
The Central Intelligence Agency
is recruiting big-city police officers
to serve as temporary intelligence
officers, which may involve helping
to counter terrorism overseas, an
-errorism, "there has never been
terrorism on as great a scale as it is
now."
She said she did not know how
many officers are being sought or
g recruited specifically to counter
IA, and although they are not be-
vestigative skills required by the
Foster said police officers have
eed for in the agency."
eers and people we had a great
rogram we had going for engi-
ent drive is similar to "the sort of
n the past and the current recruit-
he agency has hired police officers
Spokeswoman Sharon Foster said
from what cities. The New York
Times reported yesterday that the
police departments of New York,
Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Houston, Boston and San Francisco
are among 18 municipal depart.
ments asked by the CIA to allow
recruitment.
New York's police department is
participating, the Times said. At
ast one department-the Los An-
eles Police Department-refused.
Kathy Pherson, another CIA
'okeswoman, said the request for
:perienced police investigators for
mporary assignments abroad was
ade at an unpublicized July 21 in-
lligence seminar on terrorism
onsored by the CIA and the Fed-
al Bureau of Investigation at CIA
neadquarters in McLean.
Pherson said she thinks this is
the first CIA attempt to employ
large numbers of trained police of-
ficers for intelligence work.
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