Posted on 04/15/2005 5:07:45 PM PDT by paltz
The CIA may be accustomed to working under "deep cover" in hostile areas, but one college campus is proving too dangerous for the company's men and women.
The campus that makes America's spies tremble is New York University (NYU).
As reported by the University of Wisconsin's newspaper, the Badger Herald, out of fear of causing a potential disturbance at New York University, representatives from the United States Central Intelligence Agency declined to visit the campus March 31 because of the likelyhood of ... student protests!
Scheduled to appear as part of a project for a marketing class, the CIA declined to show up at NYU after they learned that members of NYU's radical Campus Antiwar Network would be protesting their arrival on campus.
Undoubtedly, Network members would be armed with such lethal weapons as pamphlets and signs.
CIA spokesperson Michele Neff, said that representatives were invited to NYU by EdVenture Partners, an advertising firm that helps students gain real-world experience by providing clients such as the CIA to appear at universities.
Shaking in their boots, the CIA representatives sent a letter to NYU officials, saying said they were forced "to take the necessary precaution in order to prevent potential harm that may escalate from a protest and the liabilities that may come with it."
According to CAN member Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, CAN was not initially alarmed by the CIA presence. "This was a bigger deal than we had realized at first," Wrigley-Field said. "I think that having this kind of advertising relationship with classes is a new thing."
She added that the visit was really a sneaky undercover attempt to recruit students for the agency.
Recruiting is no problem, countered Ed Neff of EdVentures, explaining that "We received 54,000 applications in the fiscal year of 2001 [for CIA positions]," Neff said. "Application numbers for just the first three months of 2005, we received 54,000."
He didn't reveal how many applicants withdrew after learning that they might be exposed to such hazardous duty as appearing on college campuses where they might have to face insurgents named after baseball stadiums.
How sneaky can you be when you advertise that your going to the campus to the students and faculty for months ahead of time?
They used to just advertise in the campus paper and set up off campus interviews. I knew several folks who interviewed. They all claimed that they weren't hired.
I don't blame them.
The CIA is acting like the Republicans in the US Senate,NO GONADS.
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