STUDENTS PICKET CIA INTERVIEWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100270005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By DAVE POLLEN
Staff Writer
Students scheduled for interviews with
a Central Intelligence Agency recruiter
Tuesday found that they weren't the only
ones who were concerned about the CIA's
recruiting plans.
A group of about 30 students showed
up at the interviews also, to protest the
presence of the agency's recruiter who
was on campus under the University's
auspices.
In a letter sent to Pres. Howard R.
Bowen and circulated around campus,
protesters said "we feel that their pres-
once in a business capacity on this cam-
pus is a mockery of academic honesty.
We believe the CIA has no place in a
'university community openly pursuing
truth and objectivity.' "
The letter asked that the !'resident act
these interviews," one demonstrator said,
"and we'll have to stay."
The police were not called then, and the
protesters did not leave. But Miss Barnes
held her ground. The interview schedule
was disrupted, although Pecinovsky said
that all scheduled interviews were final-
ly held. Miss Barnes said the group could
continue to protest, as long as the acliv-
ities of her office were not disrupted.
The protesters at one point sang. "I'm'
Glad I Bugged the CIA." The leader of
the protest was Everett Frost, G, North
Coventry, Conn.
During the course of the demonstration,
Phil E. Connell, assistant to the Presi-
dent, told the protesters that although
they had a right to protest, other stu-
dents had the right to be interviewed,
an that they would have to permit'. the
interviews to continue.
Interviewees entered and left the of-
fice with campus security officers. at
their sides. Officers used force at one
time to help one student get into the of-.
Tice. ,
to expel the recruiter, and said that un-
tit that happened they planned to obstruct-,
the recruiter's activities.
And so that's 'what they did.
The group confronted the recruiter,
Charles Pecinovsky, soon after he began'
his afternoon session of job interviews,
in a temporary barracks next to' Gilmore
Hall used for such interviews. They told
Pecinovsky that they did not want a "sec-'
ret, violent and dictatorial agency" on'
campus, and asked him to leave.
Pecinovsky refused.
But lie did gather his' papers and re-
turn to the office of Helen Barnes, di-
rector of the Business and Industrial
Placement office, to find a place to con
duct his interviews that wasn't full of
protesters.
Miss Barnes offered her office, and,
blocked the door when protesters tried to
follow Pecinovsky and an' interviewee in
Connell said that Bowen had seen the
letter, but nevertheless regarded the
CIA's presence as being no different than
any- other governmental agency or bus-
iness that uses the Placement Office's
facilities. Bowen was not reached for,
comment.
The protesters sat outside the office
until the interviews ended at 5 p.m. They
said that they would return today and
would demonstrate as long as the CIA
interviewer remained. Interviews are
scheduled to continue through Friday,
and Pecinovsky said the demonstrations
would not affect his plans. Ile said the
University was "most cooperative."
to the office. Robert Hintz, A4, Rock Island, Ill?
"You'll have : to knock me down if you" waited more than an hour before he was
want to got by," she said. "Now get out able to get his interview with Pecinov
or I'll call the police." sky. He had to climb over furniture and
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