GRINNEL COLLEGE STUDENTS PICKET RECRUITER FOR CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201850006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 16, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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:PUBLICITY FOR SECRECY Students at I telligence Agency on the Iowa campus to In-
'Grinnell College:picket agOtit of Central In- terview prospective recruits for espionage.
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Grinnell College Students
Picket Recruiter For.C14.
Grinnell, Iowa, Feb. 15 (irl?The
Central Intelligence Agency,
which, ordinarily operates so se-
cretly even most congressmen do
not know what they are doing,
Was thrust into the limelight to-
day by a student picket line.
Nine Grinnell College students
carried signs protesting a campus
'visit by a CIA agent who was in-
terviewing prospective employees
;for the nation's top spy agency.
The CIA man, who identified
himself as pharles R. Pecinovsky
of St. Louis, grinned sheepishly as
he strode past youngsters bearing
signs saying, "Where there is an
invisible government, there is no
democracy."
No Answers From Agent ?
'Another poster asked: .
"What is the CIA REALLY
doing in Vietnam? Indonesia?
Santo Domingo? Etc., Etc."
? But if the Grinnell students ex-
pected to get their answers from
Pecinovsky, they were 'disappoint-
ed. He refused to talk to them
and said he was-only on campus
to, interview' possible' job appli-
, . .
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the CIA and its secret policies
and undercover government, as it
were,': said Bill Downey, a fresh-
man from White Plains, N.Y.
"We are trying to raise ques-
tions and get people talking," ad-
ded Muffie Meyer, a coed from
Chicago.
Most of the pickets were mem-
bers of a group called Students
for a Democratic Society.
Teased By Other Students ?
Other students walked past the
pickets and teased them with
questions like,' "Have you solved
the problems of the world yet?"
The husky Pecinovsky inter-
viewed seven students, including
one youth wearing a suitably con-
spiratorial beard-
He said he had never been pick-
eted on his recruiting visits to
other colleges.
Offiicals of Grinnell, a liberal
arts school of some 1,100 students
aobut 50 miles east of Des
Moines, said they did not mind
picketing so long as it remained
peaceful and did. 'not disrupt
things.
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