POLICE ARREST 15 IN CIA PROTEST

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504160066-7
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: October 23, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN DAILY (MI)
23 October 1985
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Police
arrest
in
CIA protest
Opposition expected again Toaay
By KERY MURAKAMI
Fifteen demonstrators, mainly
University students, were arrested
yesterday while protesting Central In-
telligence Agency recruitment on
campus.
The protesters, who gathered out-
side the University's Career Planning
and Placement office in the Student
Activities Building where the CIA was
conducting. campus interviews, said
they opposed the CIA's presence
because the agency carries out the
"dirty work" of the U.S. government.
THE ARRESTS occurred in three
stages. After marching to the SAB
from a noon rally on the Daig, about
60 protesters sat in front of the locked
doors at the entrance to the placement
office.
When Ann Arbor police officers
tried to open the doors - once to let in
Leo Heatley, the University's direc-
tor of public safety, and again to let in
students scheduled for interviews -
the protesters attempted to push their
way into the office.
On the second surge, about 30
protesters and 15 policemen engaged
in a brief pushing match before the
doors were closed.
DURING THE scuffle, police
dragged Dave Buchen, an Ann Arbor
resident, by the hair into the office,
where he was arrested. Buchen was
later charged with hindering and op-
posing a police officer.
But witnesses said he was not
pushing police, and instead, claim
that he had either fallen or sat down in
the doorway. Demonstrators looking
in through the door at police handcuf-
fing and searching Buchen screamed
that he was being beaten.
the second set of arrests came soon
afterwards when Deborah Orr May,
director of the career planning office,
read the protesters the trespass act,
giving them the choice of leaving the
building or being arrested. The four
students who remained, LSA seniors
Chris Faber and Tamara Smith, LSA
senior Claudia Green, and law student
Dmitri Iwlitzin, were arrested and
charged with trespassing.
MAY, WHO Monday said she
thought the protesters had as much
right to demonstrate as other students
had to be interviewed, said yesterday
she ]read the trespass act because
students with interviews were having
trouble getting into the office.
As police took the arrested demon-
strators to a police wagon parked out-
side; the other protesters rushed to
the vehicle. Several members of the
group sat down in front of the police
wagon blocking the vehicle's path.
After being warned to move by
police, ten were arrested and charged
with hindering and opposing a police
officer.
ALL THOSE arrested were
released yesterday afternoon on their
own recognizance and were given
court dates next month. Heatley said
he expected the country prosecutor to
press charges.
Despite the protests, the CIA
managed to interview 17 University
students, according to May. Only one
student failed to show up for an inter-
view, but May couldn't determine if
the absence was due to the demon-
strations.
CIA interviews are expected to con-
tinue today, and protesters said they
plan to meet again at the SAB at 8
a.m.
AFTERWARDS protesters said
they hadn't planned on being
arrested. "We've talked about it in the
past, that something like this could
happen in the future. But I don't think
anyone expected that they might be
arrested today," said Mark Wein-
stein, an LSA junior involved in the
protest.
Buchen, who was the first to be
arrested, said he would probably file a
brutality complaint against the Ann
Arbor police, who he says "roughed
him up" while arresting him.
Also, witnesses claim that two of the
people arrested for blocking the police
wagon, graduate student Mark
Weisbrot and LSA senior Susan
Shatkin, were not sitting in front of the
vehicle when the warning was.nade.
THE OTHERS arrested were local
resident Andrew Boyd, Jane Kirsch-
man, Keith Lyon, and Joseph Libeer,
LSA junior David Isaacson,
engineering senior Jodie McCann,
LSA junior Marian Milbauer, and LSA
junior Mark Culliton.
Protesters say they oppose the CIA
for its activities abroad. A leaflet that
protesters passed out at the rally said
the CIA is running and coordinating
the war by the Contras against the
Nicaraguan government. In addition,
the leaflet says the CIA has helped
overthrow legitimate governments
that existed in Chile and Guatemala,
in addition to training secret police in
South Africa and "death squads" in
El Salvador.
"Do you know what it was like for
me, an American, to be at my friend's
funeral knowing that my tax dollars
helped support those that killed
him?" asked Peter Rossett, a biology
teaching assistant, at the rally on the
Diag.
ROSSETT, who has spent time in
Nicaragua, said his friend had been
killed by "CIA-backed" Contras.
The protesters also encountered op-
position from people other than
police. One University alumnus who
wouldn't identify himself, said he had
to hand in a job application to the of-
fice, and that the protesters were in-
fringing on his rights.
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"I don't give a fuck about the CIA,"
he said, "I just want to get in there."
HUGH. a student who was inter-
viewed by the CIA and wouldn't give
his last name, told the protesters,
"You have a right to express your
opinion, I have a right to be inter-
viewed." He added, "They think
there's things wrong with America, I
think America is the best country in
the world."
The Michigan Student Assembly
last night passed two resolutions
relating to the arrests. One chastised
University President Harold Shapiro,
Vice President for Student Services
Henry Johnson, and the Ann Arbor
Police for "brutally" arresting
protesters.
The resolution also "demanded a
written explanation of the Univer-
sity's role in the arrest of students."
Daily Photo by DARRIAN SMITH
RC junior Mark Culliton. one of fifteen people arrested yesterday
protesting CIA recruitment on campus, is handcuffed by Ann Arbor
police behind the S.A.B.
Daily Photo by DEAN RANDAZZO
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Protester Steve Latta argues with head of campus security Leo Heatley about CIA recruitment on campus.
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