FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SEEK EMPLOYEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100290005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 11, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE DAILY TITON
CALIFORNIA STATE at FULLERTON (CA
11 FEBRUARY 1981
Join the CIA and travel around the world
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re`youbright, self-reliant and self-motivated with a spirit ofadventure?'
If so, pack up, your trench, coat and dark: glasses because, the CIA may
";The Central- Intelligence- Agency is looking for "an:elite corps of men and
women,"-according to an advertisement in the Daily Titan last semester.
Although itmay seem unusual for the CIA to advertise in a local paper, a
CIA representative said the ads "get a tremendous response."
"We'started advertising in Southern California about six or seven years
ago," L'.LL Curran,from the CIA said. "We are always looking for people
who want a lifetime career."
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Benefits for `.`the special men and women" who meet the information-
gathering agency's requirements include international travel, prestige and a
starting salary of at least $15,000, the ad says.
However, the.r_equirements include a college degree, language skills, U.S.
citizenship and a "clean" criminal record.
And lies are unlikely to escape the scrutiny of the intelligence agents'
personnel department, which conducts a six-month long background check
of each prospective employee's past, following an initial interview.
"I remember when I was hired," said Bev. Calverley, a ,government
employee in the narcotics department of the CIA.
"They (the CIA) went back to my roommates in college and also around
to my neighbors where I grew up and asked all kinds of questions," she
said. "Everyone thought I was in some kind of trouble."
Part of the intensive probe investigates use of.narcotics and other illegal
drugs.-Applicants must indicate if they have' used the drugs, under what
ttircumstances andon whattdates~
. Curran agreed that chronic drug abuse could hurt an applicant's chances
for a position. ".`We probably won't accept a person who has used heroin or
bther strong drugs," Curran said.
The other famed half of the U.S. intelligence services, the
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of Investtgatton,ako recrw[s col e e students aftffougn not in newspapers.
don't have investigators in foreign countries FBI recruiter Munoz said.
"The ones abroad are mainly jusl1 correspondents or are on special
assignment ^- s - "
ment, is Washington, D.C.-based and employees must relocate there. On
the other hand, the FBI is a federal agency under the auspices,of the Justice
Although both agency- employees receive full government benefits, the
FBI pays employees slightly higher for "hazardous duty pay"; stemming
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C lA agents are not issued weapons, Curran added.
The CIA has agaduated pay scale, depending on college degree and
work experience, An applicant with a Pn.d.'and some applicable work
experience can earn $22,420 as a starting salary,,
What is applicable experience?
Curran, expl Cried that experience can range from living overseas for an
extended period to having done intellectual"analysis.
"If you hack a job where you used skills to influence other pgople, that
would be acrappficable experience;; ' Curran said.'
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