SECRET RESEARCH DRAWS RIT STUDENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100010064-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 64
• Publication Date: February 16, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT f, CHRONICLE
16 February 1986
s research . draws RIT students
Esgeea Marino mare cons"five than most col- would say only that "several hun-
p? rp am Ovoncs Jig, students, said Prof. Wiley dyed" students were in the CIA's
Tom Johnson, a 22-year-old math McKlask, director of the Center program and that they represent a
major at Rochester Instituteyo-C, for sputa Science and Tech- cross-section of schools.
Technology, helped develop'! nom- nology~. This caia is "quite con- Among the other active ddefense
putsr model for a new war game a senior who chat 'et?the~Sta Agencies on the RIT u- 0 The Naval Surface W camps of
couple years ago
The game wasn't for fun. It was dent borate; the student gov. Center in Dahlgree, Va., and
for the Pentagon - and classified. ernmant. t., White Oaks, Md., which had 15
Geoffrey Welch, another 22 year- IIIA[PWYIES, *7TH .privata co-op plecementa from RIT in
old math major at RIT, performed and governmental, Thad RIT's ca. 1984-86. It has about 225 students
accuracy studiee?for the ,'T`rident nu- reer-oriented students attractive overall
Clear missile. 'I'Tiase? stitches include& because of the emphasis the Khoo[ ? U.S. Army's Armament
statisticd resegrch and writing com- puts on applied learning. Reeear add Development Center
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for
His work also was clessif ed. tive, organized recruit g efiasti._ Vbmb ft It had betwes t 20r and
Johnson spent six quarters at the are the NSA and the CIA, said, If70 Stints overalL.
U.S. Army's Concepts Analysis Beverly Gburski, director of the ? T e U_ Army's Cktnaspft
Agency in 46eeda; Md., as a co- co-op program at RIT. Ana1ysts'Apncy in Bethesda, Md.,
operative tipb student. Welch The NSA is probably the most which will {mw 1d RIT students
spent four quarters sit the Naval secret agency in the U.S. govern- of 79 sbtdents total in the
Surface Weaporb C$nter as a co-op. ment. It owes its existence to a 1965-1986 school year, according
Neither ipa rarit3ton RIT's cam- tqp_,d ceder signed by Presi- tp Johnson, the' math major who
RIT co-oO 9tudeiN -- juniors and :mission is twofold: to secretly
senidn who' alternati Father intelligence through techno-
fulf;ttrhe vrol