STUDENTS WILL PROTEST CIA VISIT TO K-SCHOOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100480014-3
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 28, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEAR`D
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HARVARD CRIMSON
28 October 1985
Students Will Protest
CIA Visit to K-School
At least three student groups are
planning to protest a visit of Central
Intelligence Agency recruiters to the
Kennedy School of Government
today.
Protest organizers from the
Committee on Central America
(COCA), the Friends of the Spar-
tacus Youth League (SYL), and the
Democratic Socialists of America
said they expect "a lot" of students
to attend the demonstration, which is
scheduled for I p.m. in front of the
K-School.
Although COCA and Democratic
Socialists members said they plan a
peaceful protest consisting of
picketing and presenting written
protests to the CIA representatives,
SYL member Thomas N. Crean '86
said his group would like to "drive
the CIA recruiters off campus."
Crean called the CIA "the hitmen
for imperialism," while COCA
member Jaran R. Bourke '88 said his
group objects to CIA recruitment
because of the agency's alleged in-
volvement in the ongoing political,
conflicts in Central America.
Bourke said that COCA would like
to convince the CIA not to return to
campus and "to create an awareness
among students at Harvard so that in
future there will be no supply for the
CIA."
Encore Engagement
According to Judy F. Kugel, the
Kennedy School's director of career
placement, the CIA visit is a
"standard" annual event which in
the past has attracted from five to 30
students. She said she did not know
how many students will speak with
agency recruiters today.
Kugel said the recruiters will make
a brief presentation and talk in-
dividually to interested Kennedy
School students.
he said she was not aware of the
protest plans and said pre,,:ous CIA
visits had not been received in a
similar way.
"Hello, CIA...?"
Kathy Pherson, a CIA spokesman,
said she did not know how many
agency representatives would be
coming to Harvard. She would not
?snecify how many students from the
Kennedy School or other Harvard
schools had participated in previous
visits or how many had been hired.
"We have recruiters all over the
United States," Pherson said.
She said she was unaware of
protest plans, but that recruiters
elsewhere had been the focus of
campus demonstrations.
"It happens every once in a
while," she said.
"Basically, we think people have
the right to interview with us,"
Pherson said. "On the other hand, if
people want to protest, that's their
right, too."
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