PROTESTERS PREPARE FOR CIA RECRUITERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200960002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 6, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW BRUNSWICK HOME NEWS (N1
6 December 1985
Protesters prepare for
CIA recruiters
Students, faculty and area peace activists are
expected to demonstrate agaimt the cruitment efforts on Rutgers Univer Am,
-
lass Campus at 9 a.m. toda to protest the CIA's
actions throughout the worth
Kevin Canada, a Livingston College senior
and Peace Center of Central Jersey member, said
be will be involved with the protest because of the
CIA's attempt to overthrow what be considers the
legitimate government of Nicaragua and other
"deplorable actions" committed throughout the
"We complain about the KGB, but it's OK for
the CIA to kill people," Canada said.
Canada said the purpose of the protest is to
min consciousness about the CIAs activities and
to inform the university administration that the
demonstrators believe the CIA has no right to be
on campus. He said that be believes Rutgers al-
lows the CIA on campus because of research dol-
lars the university's professors get from the CIA.
Joan Driscoll, a member of the group, said
protesters also will try to engage fellow students
in discussion, such as "Do these people know what
the CIA does?"
"It's fairly common knowledge that the CIA
activities are like that of a legalized Mafia," said
Ms. Driscoll, a graduate student "We don't want
them bete."
But Dr. Glenn Gamble, director of the univer-
sity's Career Development Office, said be thought
that the dMnonstratioo would have "nq influence
whatsoever" on the agency's recruitment efforts.
"There are well over 100 students who've in-
dicated interest in the CIA," be said.
CIA recruiters plan to bold a general meeting
at the campus center in the morning, then conduct
private interviews with students. The agency pri-
marily is interested in students with technical
schooling in computer science and engineering,
Gamble said.
The CIA Is "not looking for spies," be said.
what think basically students are aware of
what's going on," Gamble-added. "They try to un-
derstand the other person's point of view.
'Today's students don't feel the sensible way
to register displeasure is not to seek a job with
them," be said. "They try to change thiap from
CIA public affairs officer Kathy Pherson, in
Virginia, said the agency tries to fill a "wide vari-
ety" of jobs through recruitment on college cam.
ppn s,which are considered a "major source" for
employees.
"Eva during the '60s and '70x, the campus
was the main place to go for people," she salt "A
lot of times, the place to find people with interests
In foreign affairs is on a campus. We've had a lot
of interest all along."
Recruiters, visiting a couple of hundred cam-
puses yearly, look for students in political science,
cartography, history, languages, computer pro-
gramming and engineering.
Ms. Pherson would not say law many people
are employed by the intelligence agency, but esti-
mated that a quarter of a million applicants seek
jobs with the CIA each year. The small minority
considered seriously must undergo the agency's
unusually extensive security check, she said.
Groups supporting the protest, in addition to
the peace center, include: African Heritage of
New Brunswick, Central Jersey Committee in Sol-
idarity with the People of El Salvador, Medical
Aid to El Salvador Campaign, People's Anti-War
Mobilization (PAMO), Rutgers Newark PAM and
Nicaragua Work Brigades.
Several of these groups have participated in
protests against Johnson & Johnson, IBM and
General Dynamics. According to the peace center,
these corporations were targeted for protest be-
cause of "their involvement in apartheid, gentrifi-
cation and other immoral acts."
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