STUDENTS PROTEST AT CIA TALK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201150005-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 14, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE POST
University of Ohio
14 May 1981
by LIS:1 RYAN
V/lien recruiters frc i the Central
tinte!iige. ce Agency came to OU
Tuesday, Jonathan Smvaslh vas_
ready with trench coat and-..
Sowash, a .'eople for
Peace member, entered Balser,
Center Ballroom for a CIA presen
tation, he wasn't loo king for a job.
So:;Ets'Z and two other People for
Peace members carne td the
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Recn uitme nt Fair to protest the
"We want to implant a grain of
doubt in the students who are in
tf rested in the CIA, just tell there to
che.'i it out," said Pcop.'e for' Peace
T e :? r non i ippert. '
i
For some students the CIA may 4L
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have glamorous connot tions, said
"T;,-.y recruit ' saying, :'See . tie.
viorld.' They play on our sense.of
a lventure-the kind of cops and
robbers you play as kids. But this.is
for ke?eps," Griesinger said.
The three said they ,were pro
testing both inverriational andJ n Cincinnati, was in town to inter- meet to Nave a hold on the person,"
iaom~stic CIA actions. view University students interested Gunn said. ;
"The CIA's purpose is to put in a CIA career. Connections with foreign P-avern-
down t Third World and support "We're 'like. any employer. We m; ts-i :*f foreign-bow n~rent$
.rcpressi:?e regimes," Nippert said. use advertising to say what the or spouse, he added.
He carried a placard saying; Ask CIA has to offer," Gunn.said. etween 80 and 100 students at-
the CIA-about Chile, Iran and Cuba The CIA' is interested in students tended the International Recruit-
and about vihat is moral. with backgrounds in computer went Fair, which also included in-
CIA personnel representative science, engineering and 'other formation on the Peace Corps, Pro-
Steve Gunn said the three-person technical areas, as well as' interna- ctor and Gamble and Catholic
protest was the. first he. had en- tional relations or a, foreign Relief Services.
countered in his recruiting careen. 'Ianguage, Gunni said. Although the CIA `protest' was
"It was -the biggest - protest I've.. 'Security checks 'are' run on a small and low-keyed, Griesinger
ever seen, acfu'lly the only one I've:; potential eir_ployee to see if the per- said the group achieved its purpose.
ever seen. Maybe there were more in son has connections with foreign `.'Students noticed we were here.
the early '70s," Gunn said. governments, Gunn said. - They're aware of What the CIA is
Gunn, who works out of an office.. ' We don't want a foreign govern doing," she said.
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