A REMINDER OF STUDENTS' CIA PROTEST

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700340019-1
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December 16, 2016
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December 22, 2004
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19
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February 21, 1967
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Approved For Release 2005/01/05: CIA-RDP75-0 DES L.'GIflES, 107r'A BEGIsTEr ix-230,891, I S-519, 4f)5 FEB 2 1 1967, Those students risked scorn to. raise a warning and make a point. Were they "unrealistic," "out of step with their society"? . Well, they were a jump ahead of Johnson, Mcdarthy and Mansfield. Think about those students next time you are moved, to worry about our universities. - George Starbuck, Assist-. ant Professor, English, Univer- sity of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia. the National Student Association is only the latest in a series of e xposed operations involving CIA purchase and control of professors, departments, even whole research institutions. Remember the student pro- tests last month against CIA recruiting at the University of Iowa? I invite each reader to think back: What was your own re- spouse to the reports of those demonstrations? Were you one. of those who "just knew" that these strange young protesters must have been misled' or mis- informed? .. . I knew two of those demon- strators. They have been good students in one of my courses. Knowing them, I knew they were not to be dismissed as hysterics, lunkheads, or subver Of Students' CIA Protest To the Edltot: IA e finder Approved For Release 2005/01/05 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000700340019-1