AGENCY RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00498A000500140006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 26, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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DDA 76-3713
26 July 71976
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
FROM : John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT . Agency Recruitment Activities
1. You may have noticed from time to time in the
Director's Dail Journal an entry which mentions that
the DDA has forwarded to the Director a monthly report
on recruitment activities.
2. We established this particular report in
February 1975 so that we could monitor our recruitment
activities against those of the previous year and
become aware if the Congressional investigations and
resultant press activity were having an inhibiting
effect on recruiting applicants. We were rewarded to
see that the level of interest in people seeking
employment was higher during 1975 than it had been
during the counterpart one year earlier. That fact
continues to this day. We are now running these
statistics on a three-year comparative basis. I thought
you. might like to see the results of the June 1976 report.
;,~ .. John F. B.iW1.w
John F. Blake
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OP APPLICANT ACTIVITY REPORT
Period: Month of June 1976
A.
Statistics
Current Period
1975
1974
1.
Written inquiries received -
2162
1998
1501
2.
Interviews conducted -
1002
599
550
3.
Forms passed out -
637
334
309
4.
PHS packages returned -
319
152
155
5.
Applicant cancellations
75
65
unk
B. Comments and Incidents
1. As can be noted from the figures set out above, the
month of June this year was very active. In fact, only
slightly less so than April and May which are normally high.
2. An applicant in process for a GS-08 Watch Officer
position in the Operations Center cancelled out after being
fully cleared. He said he was just recently married and his
wife did not approve of the Agency. He has accepted a posi-
tion elsewhere. STATINTL
3.
reports, "l ith the public interest centered on the presic en-
tial. election and on the peccadilloes of Congressmen, the
regional media have shifted their attention away from this
Agency. As a result, the frivolous phone calls and trivial
letter barrage have tapered off to a considerable extent.
This h.,-,. s enabled us to prepare for the Fall recruitment pro-
gram."
4. reports that the
Daily '4:~..:,cetonian of Princeton University carried a large
article in its 21 May edition re CIA recruiting on that STATINTL
campus. The article quoted Mr. Newell Brown Director of
Career Services, and a former Lt. Colonel as
stating that despite recent disclosures o t ega actions
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in domestic areas, he did not feel uncomfortable in repre-
senting CIA to Princeton students. The article reflected on
the fact that many prominent officials of the Agency have
been Princeton graduates, including the Agency's first
Director, Mr. Allen Dulles, former Agency Director, Mr.
William E. Colby, and the present Director of Personnel, Mr.
Fred M. Janney. Mr. Brown has since reported to
that reaction to the article has been entirely favorable.
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