PROTEST AWAITS CIA RECRUITERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504160065-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 21, 2012
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: October 22, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN DAILY (MI)
22 October 1985
Protest awaits CIA recruiters
P?' KERY MURAKAMI
central Intelligence Agency recruiters, almost a year
after being chased out of the MLB by protesters, are
coming back to campus.
Recruiters will interview about 18 University students
today and tomorrow for jobs with the agency, said Ane
Richter, assistant director of the University's Office of
Career Planning Placement (CC&P)
AND STUDENTS are expected to protest again. "It's
hard to say what we're going to do because we don't know
what the CIA is going to do," said Mark Weinstein, an LSA
junior and a member of the Latin American Solidarity
Committee.
He said that demonstrators will gather in front of the
Student Activities Building at 8 a.m. and then rally on the
Diag at noon.
But spokespeople for CP&P and the CIA downplayed the
anticipated protests. Deborah Orr May, director of career
planning and placement said the office was not taking any
special precautions to guard against demonstrations.
"The students have a right to express their opinions,"
May said. But she added that the office's job is to make
sure that students who want interviews get them without
istractions. Students interviewed are nervous enough
KATHY PHERSON, a spokesperson for the CIA said
yesterday, "We recruit at a couple of hundred campuses
every year. Protests are just something that happen
every once in a while. It's not something we're too concer-
ned about."
Last November, students disrupted a presentation by
the recruiters, chasing them out of the Modern Languages
Building and into their cars. Interviews the next day were
cancelled, though students met with recruiters a month
later undisturbed.
CIA recruiters held interviews in January with no
major distractions. Security guards restricted the
protesters to the main CP&P office, away from rooms in
the back where the interviews were held.
AN UNDERLYING issue of recent
protests has been freedom of speech.
The University's Board of Regents
condemned the CIA protesters last
November, saying their actions
restrict the rights of students who
sought interviews. Individual regents
have criticized protesters at a campus
speech by Vice President George
Bush earlier this month, saying they
violated the rights of others to hear
the speech.
But Weinstein doesn't agree, "If the
Mafia wanted to recruit, we wouldn't
let them. If the PLO wanted to recruit
here, we wouldn't let them. Why
should we let the CIA, which is the
largest of these kinds of organizations,
recruit? There is no freedom of
speech to recruit terrorists."
Opponents of the CIA have
criticized the agency for illegally
mining harbors in Nicaragua, as well
as aiding the Contras in Nicaragua
and helping overthrow the government
in Chile.
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