THE INFORMATION OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO THE TASK FORCE ON ACADEMIC RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070014-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 4, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Personnel
for Recruitment and Placement
SUBJECT The Information of Possible Interest
to the Task Force on Academic Relations
1. Attached is a copy of a report by a Study Group
on Recruitment that was commissioned by the Executive
Director-Comptroller in 1968 to review the then-current
Agency recruitment policy and methods. Portions of that
study still remain today standard procedure in college
recruiting especially as they relate to a) recruitment
relations vis-a-vis college placement officials and
faculty members and b) coordinated recruitment, wherein
representatives of specific Agency components accompany
recruiters during their visits to campuses.
2. In addition to the Report we can make a few
general observations on both of the above items.
3. In FY 68 Recruitment Division called at 450
colleges and universities. During the present fiscal
year that figure is now in the vicinity of 180 with
particular emphasis having been given to some 116 major
colleges and universities which are considered as being
of such excellent quality that particular emphasis should
be given to them. It can be noted here that the greater
number of those 116 schools are the same schools where
we have experienced the most difficulty from militant
students.
4. Cooperation in our coordinating recruitment
effort took on various forms over the past two fiscal
years. At our request numerous components in the Agency
identified faculty members with whom they have had
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various dealings over the years and invited us to make
contact with these faculty members as potential recruit-
ment sources. Among those who did offer this information
was the Office of Communications, the Office of Logistics,
ORD, OSI, ELINT, OBGI, and OER. During Fiscal Year 70
only OER carried out a full program of accompanying
particular recruiters to particular schools (a copy of
their schedule is attached). OSI, when invited to
organize a similar program, declined to participate
because a) they did not feel their impending requirements
would justify the program and, b) they experienced
satisfaction with the type of scientific intelligence
trainee our recruiters had been identifying for them.
OBGI, continuing their practice of not accompanying
recuztes+s,:jcontinued to make independent campus visits
known and cooperative geographers in the academic
world. They would give us advanced notice of their
itinerary and we provided them with literature and
applications preaddressed to the Recruitment Office
nearest their contacts. This proved a rather fruitful
approach.
5. While not directly "Academic Recruitment",
Recruitment Division provided support to OER at several
regional meetings of the American Economic Association,
to the Office of Medical Services at a meeting of the
Industrial Medical Association at Houston, Texas, and
have just completed a project providing recruitment
support at six regional Psychological Association meetings
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Services. So many of the job seekers at these professional
society conventions are from the academic world that one
could almost consider this as a form of college recruiting.
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 SUBJECT Report of Study Group on Recruitment
1. Pursuant to your recuest which was based on a
suggestion from the Executive Director-Comp'.roller, a 25X1
study group met during the period of 29-31 January 4988
to review current Agency recruiting policies and me:hodse
Intelligence. The latter were present frequently during
the sessions and participated fully.,
2? The remar:cs made to the group by tie Deputy
Director for Support at the initial session established
the objectives taAra,-c'. which the ensuinp.disc:ussions ware
directed. Mr. Bannerman stated that as the AFency's
future=_ depended en:ire:]y upon the quality and ca=:ibex cf
its personnel, the, group should examine our present methods
of recruiting to determine whether they are the raosc
effective means of obtaining the high quality needed.
Mr Bannerman suvg~stcd that the group explore how recruiters
might spend a grca .per portion of their time interviewirg
on a more selectiv.- b,E!Eis rather than utilising -:he current
pwshot'aun" approach, lie added that the group should also
feel free to recorr ere discontinuance of any method,,
presently in use w:iich are cumbersome or unproductive.
3. Prior to -r5nssidering methods for fe cili tat ir.;
recruiter acce5r to high quality prospects, the }croup
considered the genara?. Question of whether cr no: oar
recruiters should !ortinue to recruit on canpuses a ail.
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This question as av..,,.en in various quarters be+.:au:3e -f 1
anti-Agency demonstrations which have occured during recert
that we continue campus recrui ting
as It p rovifdes ace > .:> to the major source of highll
qualified prof essii:.