CIA Seeks Students For Behind Scenes
If you like novels with a contemporary, international setting, if you are co-operative and have an admirable scholastic record, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is for you and vice-versa.
Charles Pecinovsky, the agency recruiter for this seven-state area, so described the individual the CIA is interested in employing for behind-the-scenes work in this country and abroad. Pecinovsky, who operates from the Federal Building in Kansas City, Mo., was on campus yesterday to interview applicants.
"WERE LOOKING for persons interested in international relations, who read more than the Kansas City Star and Time Magazine," Pecinovsky continued, listing qualifications. "We also try to select individuals who will become dedicated to the agency. That's important."
Pecinovsky said the agency, which was created in 1947 and entrusted with intelligence activities "as related to the national security," listed one more requisite for applicants.
"Persons who have relatives in other countries are generally rejected because of the possibility of blackmail," he said. "Such an activity is possible in this country but we have a good security force, the FBI, to help counteract such a possibility. Certainly none with relatives in one of the communist-controlled countries would be accepted."
A CAREER training program for acceptable candidates was explained by Pecinovsky. The purpose of the program, he said, was to acquaint new employees with the agency and the relationship of the units within it. After a basic familiarization, individuals are channelled to one of the various branches according to interests, aptitude, and the needs of the agency.
Local Art Not Found
A valuable sculpture which was reported missing from its pedestal late last summer has not been found in spite of numerous investigations.
The sculpture, made in terra cotta, was reported missing from the lawn of Justin Hill.
THE ART PIECE represents the Biblical Rebecca, and was made in 1938 by Bernard Frazier, now a professor in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The sculpture has won several awards, including the top award in the national competition at the Springfield, Mass., Museum. It also has been on display in the Syracuse Museum of Art, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
If someone is found to be incompatible with his placement, he is reassessed and reassigned, Pecinovsky continued. If he is still dissatisfied, the individual is generally released because of the "improbability" of finding a place for him.
The piece was purchased by Hill in 1940 and is valued at $350.
The number of recruits varies considerably from year to year, Pecinovsky said, but there are always more applicants than there are positions to fill.
"A NEWS-GATHERING group who, in addition to gathering it, has the responsibility of analyzing it, evaluating the over-all situation, and making forecasts—all for the benefit of the National Security Council," is how Pecinovsky described the purpose of the quasi-secret intelligence agency.
He said the CIA becomes involved in activities other than strictly intelligence-gathering by virtue of a clause in the federal act creating the agency, which directs it "to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security as the National Security Council may from time to time direct."
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Pecinovsky said close cooperation exists between the FBI which is primarily concerned with national security within the country—and the CIA.
NDEA Title IV Fellows are to meet with Washington representatives Jan. 20 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union.
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Thursday, January 20, 1966
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—Sargent Shriver today began full time duties as the war on poverty's director, his sights set on expansion of the program despite Republican criticism.
War on Poverty to Expand
Within minutes of President Johnson's announcement Monday that Shriver was leaving his dual role as Peace Corps director and poverty program chief, Shriver responded to GOP cutback demands.
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