HUNDREDS ARRESTED AT C.I.A. IN PROTEST ON FOREIGN POLICY

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• Publication Date: April 28, 1987
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ON PAGE NEW YORK TIMES
STAT
STAT
28 April 1987
Hundreds Arrested at C.I.A.
In Protest on Foreign Policy
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 27 - Three ceiving a summons at the scene or fol-'
days of protests against Reagan Ad- lowing an appearance before a local
;ministration policies in Central Amer- magistrate.
,ica and South Africa ended today with "1 would describe the atmosphere as,
the arrest of hundreds 'of demonstra- almost carnival-like," said Mr. Coulter.
tors who sat down in front of entrances "No problem whatsoever."
to the Central Intelligence Agency in Although the protesters succeeded in
closing the main, or south, gate for at
the morning rush hour. Fairfax County, Va., police officers, least four hours, agency officials in- I "The contras are freedom fighters!"
with jurisdiction over the south gate of sisted that the bulk of the employees one of the youths, Karl Strohminger, a
the C.I.A. facility, arrested 355 protest- ,were working. Many employees ar- student at Towson State University in
ers. Some of the demonstrators went rived before dawn, thus missing the aryland, exclaimed to several
limp and were dragged into police demonstrators. "it's pretty well bus monstators.
vans. Others walked. United States ness as usual," said Kathy Pherson A protester responded furiously:
Park police, with jurisdiction over the ' C.I.A. spokeswoman. The Sandinistas are opening up
Ihorth gate, arrested 183 protesters, Carter and Hoffman Missed schools and hospitals. The C.I.A. are
!while the Federal Protective Service murderers."
arrested 19. Among those arrested were Mr. Ells- In the absence of Amy Carter, Mr
C.I.A. officials said they believed that berg and Philip Berrigan, the antiwar Ellsberg was plainly the star protestel
he protest was the largest held outside activist. Many demonstrators were dis of the event, treated with the respec
the agency, which is nestled near a for- appointed that Amy Carter, former accorded elder statesmen.
je~st of pines and poplars in suburban President Jimmy Carter's daughter,,
!Virginia The relatively unviolent and Abbie Hoffman, were not among
demonstration included teen-agers in them.
"punk" haircuts, grandmothers, "I think she has school obligations,"
priests, college students and activists said Leslie Cagan, national coordinator.
of the 1960's and 1970's. of the protest, "The National mobiliza-
tion for Justice and Peace in Central
Ellsberg Recalls Other Protests America and Southern Africa." Miss
I "Reminds me of the 70's," said Dan- Carter is a 19-year-old-sophomore at
el Ellsberg, the former Government Brown University.
official who made the Pentagon Papers Some C.I.A. employees arriving for
ipublic, moments before he sat down to work walked impassively past the
,cheers with dozens of protesters at the 'demonstrators, many of whom shouted
(south gate. "But people seem older "Join us!" or "Murderers! Murder-
now, more middle-aged. And they don't ersl Guilty!" Several bystanders who
seem to see the police as enemies. opposed the demonstators were heck-
Nearby, the Rev. Joseph Nangle, a led but left alone.
Catholic priest who spent years in George Hanks, a retired mechanical
Chile and Peru, glanced around and emgineer from nearby McLean, Va.,
carried a sign reading: "Go Home of a 60's crowd. That's not~bad ,Westopped the Vietnam Wart Amy - You Too Abby."
that way." "I heard about this on the 11 o'clock
news last night and just decided to
Bill Coulter, public information offs-I come down," he said. "I have no great
cer for the Fairfax police, said those, affection for the C.I.A., but I don't
arrested would be charged with "ob-, particularly care much for people who
structing the free passage of others," think that everything the United States
which carries a maximum penalty of a? does outside the country is wrong."
'.$1,000 fine were eita her released after r'e-
testers
U.S. Policies Protested
Nearby, demonstrators chanted,
"The whole world is watching," and
one held up a picture of a child in Cen-
tral America whose legs were missing.
The placard was scrawled with the
words, "A Small C.I.A. Crime." Many
of the demonstrators carried signs
with names of Nicaraguans, Salvado-
rans or black South Africans who are
missing, imprisoned or dead. Noisy en-
dorsement of the Sandinista Govern-
ment in Nicaraqua marked the protest.
"Si, si, Sandinistas, no, no, C.I.A.,"
the demonstrators shouted. Several
began shouting at two youths, carrying
American flags and a photograph of
President Reagan.
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