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Date: 4/5/2011 Page: 143 of 237

Although CIA employees are not technically under Civil Service, they qualify for the government's normal
retirement provisions and their pay is equivalent to those in Civil Service. Secretaries start at GS-3, which is
$3,820 a year. The director's salary is $30,000 The deputy director gets $28,500.

In 1963 McCone asked Congress to set up a better retirement system for his top people, similar to that of the State
Department's Foreign Service. A House Armed Services Subcommittee heard McCone's plea in camera. Later, in
1964, Congress passed a law allowing high-ranking agents with twenty years of service to retire at age fifty.
The CIAR, as the pension plan was called, would cost an estimated $4,000,000 by 1969, or $900,000 a year.

The Armed Services Committee, in approving the measure, said that "many CIA employees serve under
conditions which are at least as difficult and frequently more onerous and dangerous" than those faced by the FBI
and other agencies.

In a report to the House Committee, the CIA said the pension system would help it to weed out older men in the
ranks. "The Central Intelligence Agency," it said, "needs to attract and retain a force of highly motivated
careerists ... agency requirements demand that this group of careerists be composed of younger and more
vigorous officers than are generally required in government service."

Many of the CIA's younger people are recruited off college campuses. The agency tries to select students
standing near the top of their class. CIA stays quietly in touch with college deans and hires most of its
research analysts this way. On every large campus there is usually someone who serves secretly as the
CIA's talent scout.

At Yale, for example, during the early 1950s, it was Skip Walz, the crew coach. John Downey, who was
imprisoned by Communist China in 1952, was recruited off the Yale campus in 1951. The college recruits are
enrolled as CIA JOTs -- junior officer trainees. Recently, in the manner of large business corporations, the CIA
quietly published a booklet, The Central Intelligence Agency, extolling the virtues of a career in the agency. The
booklet's cover, in yellow, red, brown, violet and white, portrays a handsome young man with jaw on hand,
pondering his future.

From every 1,000 persons considered, the CIA selects 200 for security investigation. Of this 20 percent, about 11
percent are screened out because "they drink too much, talk too much, have relatives behind the iron curtain,
which may make the applicants subject to foreign pressures; for serious security reasons 4 percent of this 11
percent are screened out. These latter are individuals who have contacts that render them undesirable for service
in this highly sensitive agency." * What this boils down to is that 178 out of 1,000 applicants are accepted.

From the start, the CIA has employed lie detectors. The polygraph is standard equipment at the agency and all
new employees take the test.

The most revealing information on this delicate subject came in a televised interview with Allen Dulles, carried
by the American Broadcasting Company: [1]

Q: In that connection, sir, of how great a value is the lie detector to an agency like CIA in detecting
potential spies, agents and/or homosexuals?

A: In my experience in the CIA we found it of great indicative value. No one is ever convicted or cleared just on a
polygraph test, a lie-detector test ...

Q: What kind of cases do you turn up most easily by using lie detectors?