PROTESTER SPLATTERS PAINT ON CIA RECRUITER AT OSU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400100006-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 24, 1979
• Content Type: NSPR

COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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No arrests have been made in
connection with a demonstration Tues-
day at Ohio- State University during
which a CIA recruiter.-was splattered
t,ith red painL F --, ; : ??
Deputy Chief:, John, lGeberg said
university police .are still investigating
the incident-;bur:the ':recruiter isn't sure who threw the paint because "she;
had her back to them.','
SHE WAS NOT injured. The dem-
onstrators said they are "members of
the Revolutionary Communist--Youth
Brigade protesting,CIA. involvement in
Iran. Police declined to release- the rec- .
ruiter's . name - in= keeping with their..
policy of not publicizing crime victims.
The. CIA,in Washington D.C., identi-
fied her, as Linda IacheUL..
? Ms.:Jachelli bad been talking to
students in the"College-of Engineering
placement- "office in Hitchcock Hall,
shortly before the incident occurred
about 11 a.m.
TARVER HAGAN, director of
placement, said about 15 people
pushed their way into the room where
he, two other workers and Ms. Iachelli
were.
.:"One fellow was reading off his
statement of complaint," Hagan said.
Someone, possibly a woman, threw the
paint; and then the demonstrators
went outside where they marched and
'chanted anti-CIA slogans for about an
hour. -
Ms. IachelIi turned as the paint was
thrown,. and it splattered onto her.
back, two desks and the floor, witness
es said.
GEORGE PRESTON, who said he is
treasurer of the. brigade and a recent
OSU graduate contemplating graduate
school, told reporters,""This action was
designed to get people to get off the
fence" on the Iranian issue. In a
mimeographed sheet distributed to
passing students?:the brigade said. the
CIA is "one of the main organizations
responsible for the oppression of the
Iranian people and people around the
world "
Hagan said Ms. Iachelli's visit was.?
well-publicized as are the visits of all
recruiters interested in talking to-
students about jobs. "We don't keep it
HE WOULD NOT say how `many
,students she was to talk to from his
college, but noted she was to interview
upcoming graduates in other fields,
too.
Asked if these students will' have a
chance to talk to someone from the
CIA; Hagan said, "That will be.co
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