CIA at Victoria

There are five pages that refer to Victoria University, two references to Salient, including a two-page article on the American protest movement by George Fyson.

Because of their role as leaders of many of the protest movements of the last decade, university students are a prime target for Security groups. In a series of articles on the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) in the Dominion, March 1975, Michael Parker said that it was the practice of the SIS to watch "trade unionists with pronounced leftist views and tendencies, and, unfortunately, university students."

Six years ago an SIS agent, Rex Banks, was caught on Victoria campus trying to persuade fellow-students to infiltrate anti-war groups like the Committee on Vietnam. These were tactics identical to those used in the CIA's Operation CHAOS.