DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST CIA RECRUITMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201150060-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: November 17, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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MADISON STATE JOURNAL (WI)
17 November 1983
Demonstrators protest CIA
recruitment
By George Hesselberg
Of The State Journal
1ng and murdering around the world."
He proclaimed the rally a success.
The group was allowed to carry its
demonstration into the building to the
hallway - outside the placement of-
fices, where they marched and
chanted for about 30 minutes before
disbanding.
No incidents gr.arrests were re-
ported, police said.
The only discernible argument oc-
curred when a couple.of demonstra-
tors wanted to chant: "No More Bay
of Pigs, SandinLfts Need MiGs." The
request was politely denied by a -
woman who said the Sandinistas don't
need anything from.. anybody, they_
can determine A heir own: fate. She
then good-naturedly started another
c ant:!"The Left. United. Can -Never
Be Defeated."
A CIA spokesman said he - would,
have no comment on the demonstra-
tion or on recruiting on the UW cam-.
pus. Through a university spokesman,
the CIA spokesman. referred report-
ers' questions to the CIA's Chicago of-
fice.
A schedule on the bulletin board
noted that the CIA was looking for ca-
reer candidates with backgrounds in-
economics, the military, political sci-
ence and linguistics.
The chants of about 30 student-
aged demonstrators did not interrupt
a full schedule of job-candidate inter-
views conducted by the CIA on the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
campus Wednesday. :
-Recruiters scheduled at least 26
student interviews Tuesday and
Wednesday in the Science Hall base-
ment offices of the the UW Career
Advising and - Placement -Service, a
university official said.
Shouting slogans, banging sticks
against empty soda cans and carry-
ing a small cardboard "Roach Motel,"
demonstrators walked in a circle In
front of Science Hall. -
The "Roach Motel" was a symbol
of what happens to people who are re-
cruited by the CIA, according to Andy
Daitsman "They check in. and never
check out," he said. Daitsman said he
was a spokesman for the "Coalition to
Stop U.S. Intervention," which spon-
_sored the gatheong.
He said the.group wanted to regis-
ter its objections to the CIA's operat-
ing strategies and to let the CIA know
"they can't come to our campus and
recruit our co-students to do their kill-
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