International Marxist Group Archive

Magazines, bulletins and booklets of the IMG and its forerunners, 1961–1984

Cta Recruits Agents at Universities

The Week Vol. 5, No. 9, 3 March 1966 · p. 12 of the scan · 127 words

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from a London reader The 'DailY Telegraph’ of 17th February contained the following report: "The Central Intel igence Agency admitted today that its recruiting teams are touring/Amcrican universities, looking for potential agents and analysts... The number employed by the Agency is secret, but (en assistant to the Director) said of 600'senior people" 53% had advanced academic degrees such as doctorates, "We try to get tha vary top poople in academic standing," —

The Agency's recruitment programme came into national promin®nes when a group of students at Grinnell College in Iowa picketed an agency official conducting interviews there, The students displayed posters asking what the Agency was doing in Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Dominican Republic, One poster said: "Where there is an invisible Government there is no democracy,"

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