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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 21, 1992
CELEBRATE EARTH DAY 1992!
TONIGHT: Lecture Theme -- "Health and the Environment"
7:00 p.m. Chuck Haines, Professor of Biology at Haskell Community College
8:00 p.m. John O'Brien, Professor of Systematics &
Ecology-- "The Effects of Nuclear War"
in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union
WEDNESDAY: EARTH DAY
There will be a table in the Kansas Union with environmental information all day.
6:00 p.m. "Recycling on Campus" -- Expanded Environs
in Parlors A & B, Kansas Union
7:00 p.m. Arts for the Environment Music, Poetry, and Dancing
in Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
CIA to increase agent numbers for foreign espionage positions
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Thirty-five men and women listened tensely as the CIA recruiter told them that they would be working overseas getting foreigners to spy for the United States. "I don't want to scare you off. But you've got to understand what you're buying into," the recruiter said.
The group was invited to the session in a northern Virginia office building after responding to a classified ad, one of the CIA's most often-used recruitment tools.
But few will survive the rigorous selection among the growing number of applicants, at least 150,000, who send their resumes to the CIA each year.
Those who make it will find that despite the radical changes wrought by the Soviet Union's demise, their jobs will have much in common with the espionage practiced in the heyday of the Cold War.
Bob Simpson, Washington area's chief recruit, said, the 18-month
training would include surveillance techniques, safe houses, encryption and agent meetings.
Trainees then will receive a specific assignment to learn about the country and the cases, he said.
"Then when you're ready, you'll pack up your household and go overseas," Simpson said.
Abroad, CIA case officers lead a double life. By day, embassy clerks or diplomats. By night, spy masters. It is called "cover," Simpson said. Only your spouse and agency colleagues will know that you really work for the CIA and not for the State or Defense departments as you say you do.
Your main job will be to find agents, often officials of the host government, willing to pass secrets to the United States, Simpson said.
You might meet your potential agent at a cocktail party or embassy function. You get to talking. You seek mutual interests — tennis, the opera perhaps? You get friendly. Maybe
Here is how it works:
your spouse gets chimmy with his. When you feel he is ready, you pop the question: Will you spy for us?
"Some of you may think it sounds like marketing. You're right," Simpson said.
If the target agrees, you start training him in the spy craft you learned back home. You then "run" your agent, asking him for specific information, collecting it, evaluating it and sending it to Washington.
The CIA, battered by criticism of its failure to warn about Saddam Hussein's plans to invade Kuwait in 1990, has decided to increase the number of its spies, in recognition that satellites can only detect facts, not human intentions.
But critics of the agency say such an increase will not matter as long as the CIA confines itself to using embassy cover. An agency task force study the problem has heard recommendations to branch out and spy in the guise of businessmen, travelers and other, less easily identifiable covers.
When?
April 22
Where? Wescoe Hall
What?
Link hands across campus
Why?
to raise cultural awareness
SEMINAR:
"COMMERCIALS, TV,FILM BROADWAY & MODELING"
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
WHEN & WHERE:
Wednesday, April 22 at 6:30p.m.
Steppin' Out
1 West 5th Street, Lee's Summit, MO
RESERVATIONS: (816) 525-7464
Friday, April 24 at 7:00p.m. Priscilla & Dana's 6024-C N.E. Antioch Rd., Gladstone, MO RESERVATIONS: (816) 455-0900
Saturday, April 25 at 11:00a.m.
MTC Model, Talent, Charm
4043 Broadway, Kansas City, MO
RESERVATIONS: (816) 531-3223
Sunday, April 26 at 2:00p.m. Broadway Babies Dance Studio 214 Sunrise Drive, Raymore, MO RESERVATIONS: (816)322-3043
Zachery Bryan ABC TV's Home Improvements
WHO MAY ATTEND: YOUNG ADULTS AGES 18-24
New York producer and leading independent talent scout, Peter Sklar who holds a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard, will conduct a seminar focusing on the involvement of children, teens and young adults in New York's professional entertainment world. The discussion will include a behind-the-scenes look at auditions for commercials, television, film, Broadway and modeling,the role of casting directors, agents and managers, do's and don't's regarding pageants, modeling schools, photographers and portfolios, how to avoid "rip-off's", etc. Following a question-and-answer period, Mr. Sklar will conduct personal interviews with young people in the audience to briefly assess appearance, personality and overall "marketability" from a professional casting perspective. Dress should be casual, with little or no make-up or hairspray or excessive jewelry.
Reservations are required. There is no charge for admission.
Peter Sklar holds a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard and is currently New York's leading independent talent scout, directly responsible for the commercial, television, film, Broadway and modeling careers of thousands of young people from all parts of the United States. His work entails daily consultations with leading casting directors and talent representatives on both coasts and has been featured repeatedly in the New York Times, New York Daily News and on nation-wide network news and entertainment programs including Donabue, Good Morning America, Midday Live, PM Magazine and many others. Proteges include Ricky Schroder (The Champ, CBS TV's Silver Spoons), Allison Smith (Broadway's Annie, CBS TV's Kate & Allie), Brian Bloom (CBS TV's As The World Turns), J.D. Rotb (Fox TV's Fun House), Missy Goldberg (ABC TV's Saturday A.M. Posse), Lori Lougblin (NBC TV's Full House, Secret Admirer Back to the Beach), Zachery Bryan (ABC TV's Home Improvements) and many, many others. Mr. Sklar is producer and composer/lyricist of the upcoming original Broadway musical The Kid Who Played the Palace.