HELP WANTED: CIA SEEKS KOJAK COPS, NOT 007S

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000200880008-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: October 28, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK POST
28 October 1986
HELP W
CIA
SEEKS
KOJAK
COPS,
NOT
007s
By MIKE KOLENIAK
& DAVID SEIFMAN
KOJAK - not James
Bond, a.k.a. agent 007.
That's what the CIA is
looking for as it recruits
New York City detectives
for its overseas war on ter-
rorism, Mayor Koch said
yesterday.
Today's terrorists "are
not the terrorists of old
times ... a select group
of almost su
ers
i "
e
p
p
s, "fairly stable" political
Koch said.
"What they have [now environment. Families
t
is people that more can go along.
Bilingual cops are
resemble drug pushers."
So particularly prized, CIA
the CIA wants local recruiters added.
cops who have "actually Sixty-eight cops here
participated in anti-drug have taken the CIA test,
activity and anti-bomb
activity," of 210 who listened to
," said Koch. CIA recruiters last
Experience in recruiting month, Burke said.
and working with inform-
ers is the skill of New It is not known whether
signed on.
York's Finest that is most any have
in demand, is the key
, along with - with detectives near
well-honed investigative retirement, many just at
skills, according to Inspec 40 - encouraged to
tor Robert Burke. volunteer.
The job offers glamor.
Those who sign up,
ous overseas assign. after a medical exam
ments - Paris, Rome,
London rather than and lie detector test, will
- three-year
the explosive volatility e given
Libya robationary contracts.
or Beirut, says spokesman Kathy
New York police sourc CIA herson said the agency
familiar with the CIA'
recruiting is looking for permanent
pitch.
"It's a non-gun assign- employes.
Eighteen major city po-
lice departments around
the U.S. were ap-
proached. None appears
to have leaped to the
challenge with the fervor
of New York.
Most echoed Houston
Police Chief Lee Brown,
who said:
"We're kind of short.
handed and we'd hate to
lose anybody, especially
some of our better peo-
ple."
San Francisco's Chief
Frank Jordan said none of
his officers participated in
the CIA seminar for police
brass last July in Wash.
ington. He does not plan to
participate in the recruit-
ment pram.
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