CIA OWNS TALENT SEARCH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200100009-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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February 18, 1966
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impression that the." a?encyl
is not averse to_ getting a
'.academic -degrees than any
other agency in govern-
It is a hard claim for
any outsider to check ag-
ainst the record: Grogan
said that under the ' law
even the CIA total employ-
ment is secret.
The recruitment
i program Was propelled into
national prominence when
a small group of students
at Grinnell College in Iowa
picketed a CIA man on
campus.
The CIA here was obvi-
ously unperturbed also. In
fact an inquirer gained the
!'We want good people,"
.::'said Col. Stanley J. Grogan,
"we're out looking for
'them."
'? At present the' CIA is
particularly Interested in
students, especially grad-
uate students with basic
scientific training which
would qualify them for pho-
;.to interpretation work.
That is, a high priority
field of intelligence which
was brought to' public ' no-
ftice in the US spy plane
sensation of six years ago,
and in the aerial -photo-
graphs that uncovered Rus-
' sia's secret rocket installa-
tions in.Cuba in 1962.
Grogan, an assistant. to
the CIA director, Admiral
William F. Raborn, said .'the
Central Intelligence Agency
probably has more employes
,,and officials with' Advanced
,:analysts and agents..
ment's super spy agency,
the CIA (the Central Intel-
ligence Agency) confirmed
Wednesday it has recruiting
teams visiting . about 100
college campuses interview-
ing students as prospective
WASHINGTON, Feb. 171
The US gafem-h
lent scouts.
Approved For Release 1999/09/0,T: CIA 00001 R0002001.00004