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CIA Asks Black Colleges for More Recruits By Associated Press September 16, 2003, 5:19 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- The CIA appealed on Tuesday to a black educators' group to send more recruits.
"Our work force is about 11 percent African-American," said Deputy Director of Central Intelligence John McLaughlin, in prepared remarks to the National Conference of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. "We know that it can be higher."
CIA officials have said that many of their minority recruits enter technical and scientific fields, adding they would like to recruit more who can serve as analysts and overseas case officers.
"We rely heavily on the gifted scientists, engineers, IT specialists, and mathematicians your schools develop," McLaughlin said in a rare public appearance. "Please, keep them coming. But I also ask you to encourage others -- your linguists and area studies majors -- to consider careers of service in intelligence." Copyright © 2003, The Associated Press
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