WANTED: SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200100004-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release .1999/09/07 : CIA- -DP75-00001
Moscow, USSR
March 2, 1966
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Wanted: Spies
When university students In Grin-
nel, Iowa, learned that the in-
conspicuous gentleman on their
campus was a Central Intelligence
Agency recruiting officer, they gave
him a welcome that was anything
but cordial. Some exhibited hastily
written placards saying "What Is the
CIA really doing in Vietnam? In-
donesia? Santo Domingo? Etc.,
etc..." and "Where there is an In-
visible government, there is no
democracy."
Asked about this incident by an
Associated Press correspondent, Col.
Grogan, CIA deputy chief, confirmed
that the CIA was recruiting agents
in about 100 universities and that
the recruiting- officers check tho-
roughly upon the students and enlist
only those with good records.
Why does the CIA set so much
store by scholarliness? Here is how
Col. Grogan replied to this question:
"We have to decipher aerial pho-
tographs..."
The students who booed the CIA,
recruiting officer off the campus In
Grinnel showed that they had no in-
tention of putting science at the'i
ervice of Col. Grogan and his'
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