THE CIA HAS BEEN HAVING "NIGHTS WITH THE CIA" AT ITS LANGLEY HEADQUARTERS FOR WASHINGTON AREA ALUMNI OF IVY LEAGUE COLLEGES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000200010063-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: October 7, 1980
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~41ASNING~ON V~IEEKLY
7 October 1980
spending almost as much money as the Department
of Defense. The difference is that the DOD ex-
penditures are veriable by item as Congress ap- i
proves each item.
The evening's .conclusion is: The CIA needs
recruits badly.. _ ..
fore the House late in the:week of Sepi. 22 and
probably later before the U.S. Senate.
The bill amends the National Security Act of
194? to provide criminal penalties for the unauthor-
ized disciosore of information identifying under-
cover U.S. intelligence officers, agents, informants
and sources. This is why the personal- contact on a
name_basis between the employees and their college
mates seems unusual. -
Even though the alumni'get.invitations, they still
aze screened after they accept.
"-They meet Admiral 5tansfield Turner and hear
all about the public relations office which the CIA
maintains for contacts with the public.
Looking azound the expensively appointed buil-
ding and learning that the CIA has many other offi-
cers in downtown Washington and ~ Rosslyn, Va.,
some of the alumni to think that the CIA must be
' ties Protection Aet, which-was slated to come: be-
s
r in passage of the H.R. 5b15, the Intelligence Identi-
ber- of-Commerce type selling job is done for help
The Cenirat Intelligence Agency has been having
"Nights T~ith The CIA" at its Langley head-
quarters for Washington area alumni of Ivy League'
colleges.
When they get there, they are introduced to
name-wearing employers. of the CIA who also
attended those colleges. The pitch is made to recruit {
new employes from these alumni. The real Cham- ~
by
Sarah McClendon