UI STUDENTS PROTEST CIA RECRUITER, BUT HE STAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300620013-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: January 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

IOWA CITY PRESS CITIZEN Wed., Jan. 18, 1967 C i,
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PYRGHT
Agency
recruiter Charles Pecinovsky
continued conducting interviews
today in "another building" if.
ter University of Iowa students
Tuesday protested his visit.
Ilelea Barnes, director of the
UI Business a n d Industrial
Placement office, who physical-
ly barred protesters Tuesday,
said at noon today the job in-
terviews were progressing quiet-
y "nn another building," but
declined to designate the loca-
tion.
Approximately 10 students at-
tempted to enter Miss Barnes'
office in the Old Dental Build-
ing Tuesday afternoon a f t e r
Pecinovsky retreated there
from a nearby temporary build-
ing where he began the.inter
views. The protesters demanded
that lie leave, saying they did
not want a "secret, violent, dic-
tatorical agency" on the camp-
us.
Miss Barnes stood at the door
to her office saying, "You'll
have to knock me down if you
want to get by, otherwise I'll
stay here."
She said the demonstration
threatened to disrupt work in
her office and that the protesters
threw chewing gum wrappers
and cigarette butts about the
area. The blocked students re-
flam ed in the hall where they
sang and clapped their hands
until 5 p.m. when they were
told to leave by Campus police,!
Commenting today, m i s s
Barnes said, "We can't capitu-
i late to this very, very small
segment of our students, It's
pathetic."
I 7h e CIA representative is
schedules] to conduct interviews
through Friday, among students
interested in CIA employment.
The talks were continued Tues-
clay afternoon in Miss Barnes'
office with job' seekers escorted
into the room by campus offi-
cers.
The protest was led by Stu-
dents for a Democratic Society,
an anti-war organization. Th e
group had- circulated a letter
of protest addressed to Uni-
versity President Howard R.
Bowen. President Bowen offered
no comment, but Philip E. Con-
nell, Bowen's assistant, address-
ed the group.
Connell s a i d students who
wanted to take the interviews
had as much right to do that
as the others had to protest.
Ile said Bowen had seen the
letter and regarded the CIA's
presence no different than that
of any government agency or
business that uses the place -
ment facilities.
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