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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1965-1967
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[handwritten] 1/19/67 Protester explains his actions To the Editor: As one of the participants in Tuesday's sit-in to obstruct the CIA agent from recruiting on the University campus, I wish to explain my actions: As a national defense Education Act fellow in the department of English, I have been required by law to take an oath "to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help me God." Since the CIA violates the constitution by committing this country to legislative and executive decisions to be reviewed by the normal processes of checks and balances provided for as the fundamental philosophy of the constitution I am bound to register opposition to the CIA. Since I am committed to a university system whose goal is the creation of a free society I must oppose the University being used to recruit for an agency whose existence and practices are an obscene mockery of such a free society. Therefore I obstructed the CIA agent. Since I am personally committed to the principle of non-violence, I chose to oppose him by sitting-in (i.e., a non-violent confrontation) rather than in a violent manner. I so doing I have, I hope, in some small measure represented all those peoples of the world whose lives have been hindered, manipulated or destroyed by the totalitarian practices of the CIA. I think it is possible to do so and remain a loyal American. Everett C. Frost, G 917 Pickard St. CIA - a sham's a shame By NIC GOERES Subversive Editor UNIVERSITY OF CIA - The Daily Iowan has uncovered a sinister plot of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was learned Wednesday that the CIA planned and staged Tuesday afternoon's sit-in. The Iowan discovered the plot from its staff subversive, whose name is being withheld to prevent his recruitment by CIA. [photo to right] GOERES In an exclusive interview with the CIA, our staff subversive was told that the CIA used the sit-in as a screening device to see which interviewees were clever enough to get through the demonstrators and into the office of the CIA representative. The sit-in was the special project of the CIA representative. All CIA interviewers ar einstructed to create subversive activities for training purposes. Such training may eliminate another Bay of Pigs fiasco, the CIA believe. In Iowa's case, the interviewer secretly contacted campus dissidents holding government scholarships and coerced them into demonstrating. If the dissidents did not demonstnrate, their scholarships and loans would be revoked. Marxist or not, the CIA knows that money talks to campus radicals. The wisdom behind forcing these studnets to demonstrate is that their picketing can be useful to the government. The CIA was responsible for this positive approach to student demonstrators. One crafty interviewee used a diversionary tactic to foil the demonstrators. Since he couldn't make it through the demonstrators, he sent a decoy to the back door of the interviewer's office. While the demonstrators tried to jam the back door, the interviewee entered the room. He was pretty proud of himself until he discovered he was standing in the ladies' restroom. The subversive said the CIA interviewer had been considering holding job interviews in a hiding place, leaving it up to the job hunter to search out the interviewer. The Committee on Student Life's meeting room was mentioned as a possible location. Despite the well-planned cloak-and-dagger tactics of the CIA, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) foiled the government's shrouded agency. In order to prevent CIA interviews, SDS members signed up for all the interview times and never showed up. Before any readers get the wrong impression, the above story is fiction. I say this because some people really believe CIA would try to pull a stunt like this.
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[handwritten] 1/19/67 Protester explains his actions To the Editor: As one of the participants in Tuesday's sit-in to obstruct the CIA agent from recruiting on the University campus, I wish to explain my actions: As a national defense Education Act fellow in the department of English, I have been required by law to take an oath "to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help me God." Since the CIA violates the constitution by committing this country to legislative and executive decisions to be reviewed by the normal processes of checks and balances provided for as the fundamental philosophy of the constitution I am bound to register opposition to the CIA. Since I am committed to a university system whose goal is the creation of a free society I must oppose the University being used to recruit for an agency whose existence and practices are an obscene mockery of such a free society. Therefore I obstructed the CIA agent. Since I am personally committed to the principle of non-violence, I chose to oppose him by sitting-in (i.e., a non-violent confrontation) rather than in a violent manner. I so doing I have, I hope, in some small measure represented all those peoples of the world whose lives have been hindered, manipulated or destroyed by the totalitarian practices of the CIA. I think it is possible to do so and remain a loyal American. Everett C. Frost, G 917 Pickard St. CIA - a sham's a shame By NIC GOERES Subversive Editor UNIVERSITY OF CIA - The Daily Iowan has uncovered a sinister plot of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). It was learned Wednesday that the CIA planned and staged Tuesday afternoon's sit-in. The Iowan discovered the plot from its staff subversive, whose name is being withheld to prevent his recruitment by CIA. [photo to right] GOERES In an exclusive interview with the CIA, our staff subversive was told that the CIA used the sit-in as a screening device to see which interviewees were clever enough to get through the demonstrators and into the office of the CIA representative. The sit-in was the special project of the CIA representative. All CIA interviewers ar einstructed to create subversive activities for training purposes. Such training may eliminate another Bay of Pigs fiasco, the CIA believe. In Iowa's case, the interviewer secretly contacted campus dissidents holding government scholarships and coerced them into demonstrating. If the dissidents did not demonstnrate, their scholarships and loans would be revoked. Marxist or not, the CIA knows that money talks to campus radicals. The wisdom behind forcing these studnets to demonstrate is that their picketing can be useful to the government. The CIA was responsible for this positive approach to student demonstrators. One crafty interviewee used a diversionary tactic to foil the demonstrators. Since he couldn't make it through the demonstrators, he sent a decoy to the back door of the interviewer's office. While the demonstrators tried to jam the back door, the interviewee entered the room. He was pretty proud of himself until he discovered he was standing in the ladies' restroom. The subversive said the CIA interviewer had been considering holding job interviews in a hiding place, leaving it up to the job hunter to search out the interviewer. The Committee on Student Life's meeting room was mentioned as a possible location. Despite the well-planned cloak-and-dagger tactics of the CIA, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) foiled the government's shrouded agency. In order to prevent CIA interviews, SDS members signed up for all the interview times and never showed up. Before any readers get the wrong impression, the above story is fiction. I say this because some people really believe CIA would try to pull a stunt like this.
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