WANTED: SPIES

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CIA-RDP73-00475R000201850001-1
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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December 27, 2016
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January 6, 2014
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1
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Publication Date: 
March 2, 1966
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TA1 ? NEW TT:,.'":"i'.51 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000201850001-1 (Moscow, ',7-ssri) March 2, 1966 ? 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 service of Col. Grogan and his. , comrades-in-trade. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000201850001-1