CAC REJOICES OVER 'SUCCESS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300240027-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 1, 1967
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CPYRGHT
CAC Rejoices
Over . `Success'
CPYRGHT
The Campus Action Council's confrontation
with the CIA yesterday morning was an "un-
qualified success" according to David Kertzer '69,
CAC corresponding secretary.
The CIA appeared on campus shortly after
10 a.m. in the person of James W. Gurll Jr. '48
a personnel interviewer-with appointments t
see Brown graduate students interested in appy
ing for jobs with the CIA.
An hour later, Michael J. Brennan, Dean o
the Graduate School, had declared the schedule
interviews cancelled because it was impossibl
for the interviewer to reach the interview roo
in the Placement Office at 90 Waterman Street
Their passage was blocked by sitters-in.
(Last night, Dean Brennan told the HERALD
there is a "possibility of scheduled interviews
today with Mr. Gurll but that he did not kno
the interviewer's plans.)
CAC members interviewed by the HERAL
said the sit-in and supporting picket line had a
complished their major objetcives : the CIA 161 t
campus, the demonstration was orderly, and t
University was made aware of student obje -
tions to CIA private interviews on campus.
INVOLVEMENT
The CAC-sponsored protest against the CI A,
took place on "two different levels of involv -
ment." according to Robert F. Cohen Jr. 'E 3,
CAC president. On the first level, about 25 st -
dents -and one professor - formed a pick ?t
line outside the Placement Office. Carryi g
signs labelling the CIA undemocratic and u -
American, they did not obstruct Mr. Brenn n
and Mr. Gurll, but called upon them to stop
and listen to a reading of the reasons for p o-
test. Neither man stopped.
The purpose of this level of protest, Mr. Coh
said, was "educational" - to inform passers-
of objections to the CIA. Mr. Cohen, using a b 11
horn, called upon passers-by to join the pick t
eers. Few joined, although many accepted IhE
On another level, 17 under-
elected to confront the CIA by
a sit-in, blocking the passageway
to rooms where Mr. Gurll was
to conduct interviews.
Arnold Strasser, graduate stu-
dent, read aloud the CAC state-
ment "Why We Sit-in" when
Mr. Brennan and Mr. Gurll en-
tered the Placement Office up-
stairs in 90 Waterman Street.
Parts of the statement follow :
"The act of blocking the re-
cruiting functions of the CIA is
an act of civil disobedience. It
is an act based not on a disre-
gard but on a supreme respect
for civil liberties . . . It is an
act of individual conscience
which demands an end to the ac-
tivities of the CIA and to the
continuing cold war philosophy
of which it is a part."
Mr. Gurll picked up a copy of
the statement. .
Bodily confronted by sitters-in,
Mr. Gurll stood by as press pho-
tographers snapped pictures and
Mr. Brennan, wearing a yellow
flower in his lapel and visibly
shaking, spoke with the pro-
testers.
After explaining that he could
not walk to the interview room
without touching the protester
and that such contact woul
constitute physical obstruction
Mr. Brennan picked his wa
among the sitters.
When Mr. Brennan returne
from taking names, he stated :
"The interviews are cancelled
We found it physically.impossibl
to get to the interview room.
Mr. Brennan and Mr. Gurll lef
for Mr. Brennan's office in Un
versity Hall.
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