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Date: 4/5/2011 Page: 144 of 237

A: Well, we turn up homosexual cases particularly, but not only that. There can be other weaknesses ...

Q: Almost every CIA employee had to undergo a lie detector test as a condition of employment?

A: Well, I won't say no, it is not a condition of employment. I know of people who have said they didn't for
various reasons want to take the lie-detector test, and they have not been dismissed or terminated for that reason.

Q: But were they hired?

A: But generally when people come on board, the general rule is that they take the test. But it is not any
formalized rule, as far as I know.

Should an applicant pass all these hurdles and be accepted by the CIA, he must sign a security agreement
in which he swears never to divulge classified information or intelligence (except in the performance of his
official duties) unless he is specifically authorized, in writing, by the director of the CIA. Employees are
thus barred from talking about their work even after they leave the agency: they certainly cannot go out
and write their memoirs about their CIA experiences.

Criticism that the CIA is an "Ivy League" institution is only partially accurate. Although the top twenty executives
have always been largely from Ivy League colleges, this is not true of the agency generally. Nevertheless, a good
education is highly prized. About 60 percent of the senior 600 employees at the CIA have advanced degrees,
many of them Ph.D.s. This is not surprising in an agency that devotes a major portion of its efforts to research and
analysis.

To satisfy the interests of its scholarly employees, the CIA publishes its own digest-sized magazine, the most
exclusive magazine in the world. It can't be purchased. It is not available at outside libraries. It is called
Intelligence Articles.

The magazine was begun because the CIA has so many former professors who, for the most part, cannot publish
on the outside. Intelligence Articles provides an anonymous outlet for their scholarship. Like any specialized
periodical, it has studies of current interest in the field, in this case, intelligence. But there is one difference: most
of the articles and book reviews have no bylines.

The literary style leans toward a rather heavy prose. There is an attempt to treat on a high academic level
such subjects as how to keep a double agent from being tortured and shot by the enemy. Other forms of
mayhem are dealt with in a similar scholarly vein.

One issue not long ago featured an article explaining the difference between a "write-in" and a "walk-in." (Both
are volunteer spies: the terms apply to the way in which they offer their services.) The article, entitled " A Classic
Write-In Case," was a study of Captain Stephan Kalman, a Czech Army officer who in 1936 betrayed secrets to
the German High Command until he was caught and hanged.

"The agent of an adversary service," the article begins, "or a person high in an adversary bureaucracy, if
he wishes to make contact with another intelligence or security service, can choose from a number of
different means. He can present himself physically as a walk-in. He can use an intermediary in order to
retain some control, especially with respect to his own identity. He can send a messenger, make a phone
call, or establish a radio contact. Or he can simply write a letter, anonymous or signed."