Word: csc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman for the federal Civil Service Commission (CSC) said Monday that the government is also stepping up its efforts to screen out applicants "who have engaged in violent campus demonstrations...
...CSC has requested an additional $200,000 in its 1970-71 budget to conduct special investigations into the background of student demonstrators applying for Civil Service positions. The investigations will affect all applicants-from college graduates seeking top Federal posts to undergraduates taking summer Post Office jobs...
Although the Civil Service has always done such screening for persons with arrest and conviction records, Kimball Johnson, the Southern director of the CSC's Bureau of Personnel Investigation, said the number of persons being investigated today has jumped 50 per cent over what it was two years...
...CSC plans to cross-check names of all applicants against existing FBI files and other investigating agency lists-including state and local police information...
Many such files are accumulated very loosely from demonstration pictures and hear-say testimony. Should the applicant's name turn up, the CSC will investigate further before acting on the case...