CIA RECRUITS GRADUATES IN WEST AREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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college graduates for empl
ment in six Rocky Mount
tages in criti^a' professi
ganization.
~trouble in the Rocky. Mounta'
nel office in Saa : ake City in
July. headed b 3,cruiter Jack
G. Hanson.
"We're iorrre.;ied in all kinds
of applicants, the overt as well
as in the secret aspect of CIA
employment,*' Hanson stated.
His jurisdiction is , New
Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Colora-
The schools Hanson will vis'
in the next few months include
In Utah - University of Uta ,
Brigham Young Universit ,
Weber State College, Utah Stat
University.
In Idaho - Idaho State Un -
versity.
The recruiter said televisio
do, Wyoming and southern,
Idaho. hand motion pictures,
l uee ,portraying an unrealistic sup
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for physicists, ~~I;nineors of all
kinds, accor.? ants, certified
public ac(.o.:._:,,s and photo-
grammatris; ~.
Hanson said agency has
been hiring- moi-e women. He
said this is, to s,,ne degree,
spy, "have warped the imagina-
tion of applicants so that th
have a misconception of wh t
CIA employment is.
"For the most part," he con-
tinued,, "employes are engag
doesn't anticipate (that sort
in evaluation and writing of i -
traced to the drain on manpow-
telligence reports. a far thi
er by the Vie` Nam war.
"We are interested in a varie
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from the glorified agent and his I
clandestine operations.
"When interviewing a fellow,"
CPthis glorification be-
fore he in and finds himself
very unhappy.-
An applicant for a profession-
al CIA position must be 21, a
U.S. citizen by birth; have a
degree and be mature. "The
agency is always on the lookout
for graduates with military expe-
rience - not so much for the
ers, he said, are discouraged
into taking immediate employ
ment elsewhere by a three tc
five-month period needed -1011
security check.
son said that on the-whole thr
agency's public image is high.1
He said the CIA employe has a~
career of genuine service to the
country and one which holds
ty of other professions,"
- son said.
Most intelligence agency jobs
lenge.
Agents and employes of the
added. These fields include
re overseas or near Washing-
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relati ons.
licants, Hanson said, are ac- though exempt from tvil.serv-
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Recruiters for the CIA ha
t cpted by the CIA. Most fail toiice policy.
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encountered pickets by pacifi
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and radical groups at un
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