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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300340016-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: August 15, 1957
• Content Type: MFR

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15 August 1957
MEMORANDUM FUR Tom. RECORD
With regard to the attached,, my understa:din is that Mr. Stewart
sent it here, specifying that nothing would be done about it until you
got back. I am, nevvertheless, supplying a cotramsnt.
With regard to arty wide distribution of this sort of thing on
any grounds, iL seems to me that a quotation from The slack look of
Lsp~i. , published in France in 1955 is apropos. Afters e 3 ting
an the possibility that any intelligence agency in the world would do
such a thing as advertise for employees, the book says t
"Useless ! Look no further. Never will you find the Zlmaginar j7
announcement on the preceding page under the heading of 'offers of
employment' in newspapers. The intelligence services have recourse
to other methods of recruiting their agents. These organizations have
generally a horror of publicity? and while they need personnel, they
do not have the habit of shouting it from the rooftops...."
As to the attached in general, it seems to me to present a dilemna.
After having been criticized repeatedly for using conventional, adver-
tising methods, Personnel has this time toned the thing down until it
is such a whisper that college prospects would not be able to hear it
above the roar of other recruiting pitches. But if you try to compete
with the others, you will be back in the same old difficulties.
In particular:
p. 1 would be more or less unintelligible to the average under-
graduate whose only concrete idea would be that if he joined CIA, he
would work in an air-conditioned building.
pp. 2-4 are pretty vague, e.,. "Young men and women who are
competent and have flexibility, ingenuity, and interests in new fields
of endeavor have an opportunity to be trained within the Agency and to
make significant contributions to national security." (p. 2)
pp* 4-7 would have to be classified Secret, I should think, I
don't believe we'd disclose this much of iiDI's organization to the press
which would probably be interested.
pp. 7-9 are fine, but if I were doing this, I should dispense
with the r'irst eight pages and make discreet use of p. 9 only.
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