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Show TfePcSyUa3iCfcwrJa,tg; Wfoafs my Ufa, IDS w CIA ? SALT LAKE CITY AF Traveling in pairs, clad in distinctive white shirts and black ties and bearing their hair young Mormon missionaries abroad are being dose-croppe- d, mistaken for CIA officers. "I was accused of being OA," said Floyd Rose, a former missionary in Spain who is now a student at church-owne- d Brigham Young University. "We were different than most Americans and some of the people really believed it" He said he was asked about the CIA at least once every two weeks. "People were always asking us if we were CIA," agreed Mike McQuain, another BYU student who did his missionary work in France. "People would ask us at doors and yell 'CIA' at us as we went by." Jeff Turley said the OA label was a standing joke among missionaries in Peru. For laughs, he said, some of them would tease the Peruvians by whipping off a shoe and speaking into it, or do the same with a buzzing digital watch. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, which has denies any more than 30,000 missionaries world-widconnection with the OA. But the confusion is understandable the CIA does some of its most successful recruiting in predominantly Mormon Utah. This summer, the OA conducted an experimental radio advertising campaign in Utah. Charles Jackson, the OA's chief recruiting officer, said "well over 100 applicants responded to the radio spots." Jackson said the agency is looking for potential overseas case officers, intelligence analysts, scientists and computer specialists. The latter two categories are difficult to recruit because of competition from e, industry. "Utah is one of our good sources," said Denver OA recruiter Jack Hansen, now in Provo to recruit at BYU, whose student newspaper The Daily Universe is currently running OA job advertisements. "A lot of people here have language or foreign culture experience," he said. "That's what we look for." Many young Mormon men spend two years proselyzing for the church. Those sent to foreign missions return with foreign language ability and knowledge of specific countries. BYU records indicate that about 6,700 people in its 26,000-membstudent body are former missionaries. "We're never had any trouble placing anyone who has applied to the CIA," said Dr. Gary Williams, head of the BYU Asian Studies Department. "Every year, they take almost anybody who applies." Former Mormon missionaries have the three qualities the CIA wants: 'foreign language ability, training in a foreign culture and former residence in a foreign country, Williams . said. In addition, he said, "Our Mormon culture has always been er . .101 Policy change more supportive of the government than American culture asa whole." In the late 1960s and the 1970s, many universities took a negative view of the OA and other government agencies and discouraged students from accepting their jobs. Williamssaid Throughout those turbulent times, however, the Mormon Church continued to encourage government sen ice. he added. Williams said a sense of conformity and respect for authority which Mormons learn as missionaries, along with their abstinence from drugs or alcohol, may also appeal to the OA. But he also said that many former BYU students who land jobs with the CIA become disillusioned and leave aiterabouta year. They find they're stuck in a Washington office translating newspaper articles when they had hoped to go sparks debate by Brian Wilkinson Chronicle staff Dissension among University instructors caused a proposed withdrawal policy change to be tabled at a University Senate meeting Monday. Proposed by Franklin McKean. dean of student affairs the change is meant to streamline the present policy and allow for maximum student tlexibuity. The change would allow a professor to assign a mark of "withdrawal pass" or withdrawal fail" instead of issuing an or refusing to allow the student to withdraw from withdrawal period. The the class after the initial ten-da- y lets decide the for himself how to professor present system handle this problem. This personal, undictated control is what some faculty members may be concerned about, one senate member said. ASUU president Dave Simmons supports the change, saying that it will promote consistent enforcement of withdrawal policy and still allow for the discretion of the faculty. He sees the conflict between instructors revolving around students who sign up for a course and never go but pass the midterm and final exams, and those that need a particular class for graduation requirements but cannot add the class because of students that are enrol led but never attend. Simmons believes students should notify their professor it they are not going to attend the class on a regular basis to avoid being automatically "dropped from the class without knowing it. The prox)sed policy would base the "WP" or "WF" marks on the student's performance in class. This then raises the question of how the professor is to know the student's performance if the student never attends class.-Thivagueness is another reason for instructor dissension and the tabling of the issue. While the proposed change has been accepted by the Senate Executive Committee, it has been indefinitely postponed due to lack of senate support. Simmons believes the tabling was caused by some instructors' misunderstand ing of the wording; but he believes that while it may not be the best proposal, it is better than the present system. McKean may bring the proposed change up at a future Senate meeting with some modifications to satisfy instructors, but for now the proposal is in limbo. overseas. former Mormon but didn't much missionary who is like it Elder Neal Maxwell, a member of the church's governing Council of the Twelve Apostles. Maxwell said he worked for the OA in Washington for about a year, doing economic analyses. He said he didn't care for the work and hasn't been affiliated with the OA for 30 years. Williams admitted that some governments are concerned about the "pretty good dose of returned missionaries who've gone back to the countries they were in, as Central Intelligence agents." He said Brazil was among the countries which have questioned the church about the number of former missionaries who've returned as OA employees, and Taiwan The most prominent example of a CIA later worked for the t had expressed concern because a mission president there had worked with the CIA several years prior to his church assignment. Stanley Taylor, director of BYU's International Relations Department and a consultant to the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he doubts many foreign governments worry n connection. about a possible "The governments are sophisticated enough that they know better," he said. "I don't think they take it very seriously, but I don't doubt for a minute that a lot of the people may." Young Mormons leaving on missions for the church have sometimes been approached to work concurrently for the CIA, Williams said, adding that he knew of none who had ever accepted the offer. OA-Mormo- s F. LaMond Tullis, professor of Latin American government at BYU, agreed. 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