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the New Yorker Theater. If you were watching television
like we were tonight about 7:30, you had a chance to seeRichard Nipn give what perhaps gen thousandth politicalspeech of s career. I s Jus an average speech in an
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have made a big issue about corruption in the previous Truman
administration and Richard Nixon it seemed there had been a
mysterious slush fund and there had been some accusations by
reporters and the Democrats that Richard Nixon had his hand
in the campaign contributions and was using some of the money
for his own personal benefit. There was even talk that
Eisenhower was gonna drop him from the campaign so Nixon is
pressed right against the wall, he was forced to fight and I
think we're gonna see some very revealing aspects of his
character. This has not been seen in 20 years on television
but let's see it now. It was a paid political announcement.
Hereafter a film clip of "Millhouse" was shown
for approximately 14 minutes.!
Now we're gonna get to another segment of this show.At this point, and this brings up the origin of when I was
asked to be a host on "Free-Time and I was asked to...you .
know what kind of guests I would like on I said right away
that I'd like to have some of the television broadcasters
themselves on because I think there's this kind of symbiotic
relationship with people who make the news and people who
report on the news. what typically happens is a reporter
night call you up and say what's happening, you say this is
what happening then he goes and tells £0,000,000 millionpeople and you yourself read it, look at -it and you any
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conflict some kind of ener , something can emerge that'sdifferent from the regular %£nintelligible! talked about on
television talk show. I also suggested that Sprio Agnew
but Channel 13 isn't wise to offer equal time to Spiro
Agnew to also interview television news broadcasters.
Well, we called a number of broadcasters, Howard
K. Smith, we even called Frank Reynolds, we called Walter,
Walter himself. And lo and behold everybody turned us down.
But John Chancellor or NBC News accepted and Morley Schaffer
of CBS News accepted. And then this weekend it hit the
papers of I was gonna be host and they were gonna be the guests
and the brass at the networks found out about it." And all
of a sudden Morley Schaffer was overworked, overwrought,
exhausted and he couldn't come and he's now on location in
Spain. John chancellor, John Chancellor wanted to come. Now .
this is the anchor man of NBC News. He must make quite a
good salary probably three-four hundred grand a year and ya:
he was prevented from coming on by the brass as NBC.
Now what was strange is that we were gonna talk about
the way in which networks manage the news. And I don't think
after doing research and reading books and getting into the
background of these people that they would have failed too poorly,
that they would have had quite a good defense and I was a
little disappointed about four days ago that they were gonna
come off pretty well. And then lo and behold the networks
by their action proved what the concept of the show could never
have proved, that they decided that this show was not gonna
go on an they were gonna do everything they could to sabotage
it. "
So or course what's interesting is that if they
do this on public television, what do they do in their ownbackdyard? And to discuss this we have with us in the studioB11 ~QreeIqr, telvision critic r. or "variety and we have inWashington Nicholass ohnson,-the FCC Commissioner, whosecurrently involved i§92c§ngressional hearings dealing with
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Bill Greeley:
It's a tough act to follow....... unintelligible!
Richard. That's a tough act to follow.
Abbie Hoffman:
It is. He uh....It was....it's kind of interesting
that everybody was laughing at it and yet it probably was...it
did, it did get him right on the ticket. Ike came right
down and said Richard youire my boy and it was a kind of
cunning speech. Well, what do you thing about the newsman not
coming on, on the show? Does this suppression of news go on
in their own back yard a lot is this an uncommon activity?
How do they decide what is news? ,
Bill Greeley: _ '
» I think the FBI probably tipped them if you were
a national security risk. They're under great pressure from
the affiliates, from the sponsors, from the....the affiliates,
for instance the NBC affiliates two years ago, came in and
in their closed meeting they voted 60% to H05 that HBC coverage
of Vietnam was slanted anti-war and they have the affiliates
board take this up with the president of the network, Julian
Goodman. Now if the affiliates think, 60% of them think
that, you know, that the coverage of the war is slanted what
has the coverage of the war been really? what is the last&unintelligible! documentary on Vietnam that you saw on TV?
t was Charlie Company I think on CBS unintelligible! have to
go right? Where's the hour documentary on the secret war in
Laos? .
Abbie Hoffman:
Where: John Lawrence? In London? They do uh they
do have....the network.....lots of times when you confront
-them with certain kinds of problems, the first thing they
say is of course space and time and the next thing they of
course say is the FCC. Is the FCC something....guess I
should ask unintelligible! is the FCC something that the
networks have invented? Does it exist? -
Nicholas Johnson:
hell, I regret to say it does exist and there's
seven of us there and..but we don't really constitute much
of a threat. I inst say that*s......that's putting it very
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modestly. This matter of corporate control of news in
particular, the programing in general something that=s
concerned me for a long time and the thing that first
got me turned on to it was shortly after I arrived at the
FCC. We had this little merger involving IT&T and ABC
and one oi the things that concerned me, although I didn't
really know as much about it at the time as I came to later,
was the possibility that ITT might want to control the news
and if they owned ABC they might use ABC in that manner.
And the FCC thought, in order to consider this merger, all we
really needed to do was to invite the two principals, HaroldGenene phoneti? and Leonard Gordenson Sphonetic! into the
FCC for a cup o coffee some morning an we kind of chat
about it a bit and later we got a hearing. But during the
course of the hearing before the hearing ereminer, one cs
the issues was whether or not ITT would ever try to tamper
with the news. And while that hearing was going on, it
turned out later in a story that broke in the "Wall street
Journal" while the hearing was going on,on that issue,top
ITT executives were out in the corridors working over the
press, covering the hearing, they were on the phone to the
presidents of the major news media covering the hearing, they
were requesting reporters to go to the Justice Department
and get stories and information out of the Justice
Department that ITT couldn't get on its own. And all this
at the time that very hearing was going on. It Just seemed
to me so outlandish that we should have them prove beyond
ghy shadow or a doubt the suspicion that unintelligible!
raised as a possibility when they set the thing for a hearing.
So after that I became kind of concerned about
this problem and then I find more and more evidence of it,
Fill Greeley provides a lot of it for us in Variety egery
week and the evidence Just keeps amounting. Of courstg
of course big business interests control what it is we seein here, you wouldn't expect them to unintelligible!
otherwise. They're used to spending millions of dollars
pin advertising agencies and public relations firms to do
exactly that and of course that's what they do. Of course,
that's what they do....they never bother me about the discussion
this evening really is that....it seems to me it's possible
to put too much emphasis on the news. As many unintelligible!
the things as you can say about the news, and there're a lot
of them, the fer worst sin in my Judgement is not the stuff
on television that's news but the etutr on television that's
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not news. It's the deliberate political decision to keep
the American people ignorant and those people who program
the stuff that we see from 7:30 or 8:00 until 10:00 or
11:00 o'clock at night which means the time when most
Americans are watching television are deliberately being
kept from knowledge of what's going on in their country
and the world because the corporations know if you tell
people what's happening they'll react unintelligible!
mechanisims for participatory democracy. People know how
to react when they find out they're being abused and so
the only answer is to keep that information from them and
prime time programming does that very successfully. So unintelligible! talking about the news and I think there's
a lot of ways 1 can be improved but I think that when you
talk about it you tend to fall into their trap and you start
arguing with Richard unintelligible! at CBS about how good
their news is and thereby avoid the issue on-which they're
most severely vulnerable which is what they're doing with
all the rest of the time. "
Abbie Hoffman:
As I was getting into learning about television
from the corporation point of view, I stumbled across
information that I don't think is known to most people that
ABC for example unintelligible! 60% of the television sets,
60% of the homes with television sets throughout the world,
they...that ABC is responsible for perhaps most of the
broadcasting in Latin America. Is this.....&d, and if the
news is concerned internally unintelligible! imagine and
I've seen the difference between Time Magazinahere and the
Latin American Time Magazine for exame. Does the FCC is it
involved or is this part of its Jurisdiction or investigation,
does this concern you that we control so much of television
around the world?
Nicholas Johnson:
well, of course it concerns me and what concerns
me even more is that what is it we're doing in terms of
representing our national image abooad. Whatever you may
thins or the voice or America maithe United States Information
Agency they are nothing compared to the motion pictures and
television reruns that we're sending around the world as the
race or America. You're quits right about A30, we think or
it here as the third network but in terms of world power, ABC
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subsidiary corporations control more television stations
around the world than any other corporation I believe.
At least they control more than CBS or NBC controls. Of
course it's a problem, of course it's a problem and I think
we should be concerned about it but I know of no agency in
the United States Government that is concerned. I've tried
to get the USIA to take an interest in this. And I've talked
to ambassadors abroad when Ive been in foreign countries.
You know, they keep track of the local newspapers and we spend
a lot of dough translating all these foreign language
newspapers every day. But I don't know of any embassy that's
keeping treek or shat message is going out to the people
of those oountries...either in American television programming
or in the television programming in their country.
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Unintelligible! anecdocte because I unintelligible!
on the Merv Griffin Show about a month ago and, as you know I
was probably blanked out of that...the show, I think I have
the honor of being the only person completely video censored
in television's history.
Nicholas Johnson:
This is beautiful. You know, the marvelous thing
about it,Abbie, is that you told them all ahead of time that
you were going to do that in your book, you know, I mean it's likeHitler wrote in, "Mien Kiemf" phonetic! and told them about
what he was up to and nobody bought the book. And so then
unintelligible! as I recall; You had a big passage in there
about the way to manipulate television and the way to demonstrate
that there is censorship is to get on and be censored which in
fact happened to me on that Merv Qrirrin shes. I don't know
did you ever hear about that story?
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Oh no.
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talked about your experience on Merv Griffin, I don't know.
Did that get on over the air?
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Nell, no I had unintelligible!. I mean the thought
of blanking your face out because of your American Flag shirt,
you see, and then I think it was on the same_program wasn't
it that Roy Rogers and Dale Evans dressed up in American
Flags?
Abbie Hoffman: _
. Yeah, well it was the Hollywood Playhouse about
two weeks before. _
Nicholas Johnson:
unintelligible! consistency there unintelligible!that's not the first time that happens, you know. It's a
unintelligible! story about_ABC Sports in the Buffalo Holy
Cross Game. They had a half time, they were gonna sing some
songs about peace and ABC Sports decided that that was so
controversial a subject that they really shouldn't televise
that half time. And then about two weeks later at thensrmy
Navy Game they tried it out with the Chairman of the Jtlnt
chiefs of Staff to give us our little pep talk on behalf or
war and concluded that that wasn't controversial at all. So
these...these inconsistencies have existed before. But in any
"event on the Merv Griffin Show that you saw,what you didnit
see was, in'my Judgement the best art of the show,a littleafter you got into ununtelligibleg to a couple commercials
and unintelligible about question you recall about the...
you know what's the most important thing in the world and what
do you think about it or some specific question like that,and
so it came my turn and I said it seemed to me the most
important thing was those two commercials and whet television
commercials are doing messing over the heads of the American
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people and getting them all messed up and what they think
their values are and everything. And we had a very
interesting rap for about five minutes and then you recall
at the end or the show, Merv saysjell we may have said
some critical things about broadcasting but we gotta hand
it to them for letting us say them. Now, I don't think we
have to hand it to them for letting us say them because
after all unintellgible! you're not supposed to be unintelligible!
to let us say them. But in any event the really funny thing
1s that you didn't hear it, that five minute rap about the
commercial stuff. Although we did hear his little commercial
for CBS about how courageous it was to let us say the things
that in fact CBS censored out on the show.
Abbie Hoffman:
The day after the flag incident, I called up Merv
and I asked him,"iIor could you do a thing like tha12"and he
said,"ue11 listen,Abbie, if we had shown that shirt, the FCC
would have revoked our license" and..,...it was so strange I...
I had the feeling thinking that.CBS has in fact the power to
revoke the FCC's license unintelligible! how could the
Government? I mean and....and here was Merv unintelligible!
like the WXYZ in Podunk phonetic!, Illinois. I mean it's a......
maybe I should ask Bill that because he sits outside of it...
is it possible on television to say make the selling of General
Motor?Youve seelthe selling of the Pentagon, you see one a year.
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show in General Motors, you'd see it alright, yes. Otherwiseno they would not make it. CBS News James McMullin phonetic;
talked them into doing it.....that's the one investigative
producer I know at the networks these days. Can you name
another one? That he went to Southeast Asia to research
corruption, was there four months and came back and wrote a
horrendous study on what was going on, you know a report
unintelligible!-of the show. Gee, he was you know, he wasterribly frustrated, furious, but they just didn't handle it.
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the Public Broadcast ng System unintelligible an anti-
government network....... unintelligible critical, you know...
Abbie Hoffman:
what do you think about that.....why is it that a
Government like the BBC like the CBC I mean uh, I actually
think there ought to be one. Let's see what they're doing,
you know.......it's practically....I mean half the news anyway
is press conferences and press statements, you know, why shouldn't..
why don't they have a network?
Nicholas Johnson:
I....I....there's a great deal to be said for that.
I mean it's Just......then you know when you're getting it
from the Government because.you'd have a big channel that was
always controlling by the big Government.....
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by.....you turn on the television........so you turn on the
television and........I beg your pardon? You turn on the
television and you see this film of Vietnam and they don't
tell you that it was shot by the Pentagon. Well, like
tonight I mean, you know, it's as if Nixon didn't haveenough time on television already tonight when you ran that
little checker's film, you know, I mean, he decided he's got
to have some time at 7:30 tonight to sell us all on his
Supreme Court appointments. Now, what's he do see if he had
some time? Well, he Just calls up the networks and says,
Fellas, I'd like to have some time at 7:30 tonight on all
three of your netuorks and I'd like for you to carry it on
television and I'd like for you to carry in on radio and I'm
not going to pay you anything for it," and they say well
yes sir, Mr. President, that's Just fine you go right on sir
whenever you'd like. And he does and there it is, you know,
brought to you by........ unintelligible! that's the theory
of course and......but, you know, I think that's, that is
the most important political question that the people of
this country need to become informed about and respond to and
reform in 1972. We saw this evening another of the television
spectaculars written, produced and directed out of the White
House and we're gonna see them all through l972,And it's not
that the networks are particularly partisan, they don't care
whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat, they Just
say...are attracted to power like moths to a flame and they
support whatever's powerful and Presidents are very powerful
and so they tend to support them.
The problem is that if we're going to maintain any
kind of a balance in this courtry between the Executive and
the Legislative Branch of Government for starters, and those
are supposed to be two equal branches of government, we've
got to have some way of getting Congress into that little 21
inch screen and that's part or the problem because you've got
so many of them fellas that's it's hard to fit them all in
that picture. And so they've got dozens of things to start
' th. And the second disadvantage is, well one of thosetimes when President Nixon seized all the networks, 14 United
States Senators came back and they.said look we don't want
all three networks, we don't want the networks free. But we
would like to have one network for which we will pay full
commercial rates,as not a good s time as the President had in
his prime time,thst which we as members of the Legislative
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Executive Branch of the United Btates Government.
The result, they were turned down'by the networks.
what did they do next? They appealed to the Federal
Communications Commissione what's the FCC do? The FCC
turned them down. Now, without regard to how you feel
about Richard Nixon or what not, you've got an imbalance
between the Legislative and Executive Branch of Government,
that is a matter of concern to a lot of political scientists
who study the matter and ought to be of concern to a lot
of American citizens.
The second imbalance is an imbalance between the
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any difference in terms of what I'm saying whose in the
White House. The point is when Richard Nixon decides he
wants to do the China Show and then the Moscow Special and
tonightversion
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sittingdo us his little Hhite House Supreme Court appointments
of a Checker Speech, there's really no way that
in the Democratic Party can answer the China Show.
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problemthat you simply must £unintelligible%.....I don't see
many people concerning about t..uh...and I hinh they ought
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week ago I gave a speech at Drew University in Madison, New
Jersey, at which I made some coments about hip culture being
devoid or politics, people turning on and not getting involved
in politics and without politics the culture meant crap. And
to illustrate the point, I pulled out a switchblade and I
carry that around to different speeches and.I hacked off a
hunk of...a hunk of locks and threw them down in the stage to
dramatized the point. ind a let of people got,up took
photographs as they invariably do and there was an A?
story that was at least...that got quite distorted and thegtorythat John Chancellor broadcast on NBC Wt something
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and not New Jersey, Abbie Hoffman told all young kids to get
haircuts. He himself had been to the barber shop and had
got a crew out and they showed the following picture of me.
Is it on. It's on, yeah. How, this is a really interestinggiiture. As you can see the speech was given eight days ago.
s picture was taken two years when I was a guest at the
Goon county Jail. I was handcuffed and had leg irons on
and I was convinced for three hours by four guards that I
should have my picture taken. And this was the picture that
was taken and used. Now.....
icholas iohnson:
Abbie you dont know, you can grow hair faster than
anybody else, that's the unintelligible! or your secret._
Abbie Hoffman:
But, now CBS, although they had the commentary
pretty right, this is the picture that CBS unintelligible!
at CBS used to welcome me back in the fold. Now, the hair
is longer, is long is plastered down, it comes from about a
year and a half ago when Grace Slbk and I tried to sneak in
the White House to visit Tricia Nixon. The suit is of
course borrowed and they made a big point about this, you
know, because now it's wearing suits and ties and sticking
my hair down, coming right back within the fold, you know.
But, the only suite in my closet are lawsuits at the present
tioe= so you can see eho I eh, you hnoe, and there are the
two pictures that went out and of course the state of the
American Empire doesn't rise or fall unfortunately on the
length or one'a hair not like it was in Biblical times. But...
you know, it is show quite dramatically a kind of distortion
for a minor event, of course after that 3 was gonna show
John Chancellor unintelligible! scope of his reporting the
throat cuttings at Attica. Now, I think that more than
anything,this year that I can think of, was an un......Just an
incredible piece or reporting. I!ve met no one who did not
believe the story entirely. I mean once, once Walter says it's
true and Howard agrees and John even agrees, once chocolate
and vanilla and strawberry say it's true, it's true. How did...
did you feel angry after you found out that there weren't any
throats cut? Did you Bill? How did how did react to that?How did you react when you know that the news has been you've
been wise to? unintelligible!?
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Ho, I...I felt really sorry for the reporters, you
know, the guys that were....because those, those...espeeially
the TV guys are, you know, they're under great pressure to...
to turn it out and turn it out fast and that's what they were '
told and that's what they had to go with. It's a very
difficult situation for them to,to.....always remember therewas a unintelligibll pressman and... un1ntelligible! in thehoapital with a guy th his throat bandaged up and talking
in s hush and telling about the thing and it's....that's a
ease, I think, where they, where they were" duped and I can, I c
understand how they were. But uh....I....where's the, where's
the where's the full big extended show interpreted on Attica?What happened there, we'd seen that? _ .
Abbie Hoffman:
unintelligible! on the show.
They did?
Abbie Hoffman: '
They did. Yeah, yeah. what uh.....what would youlike to see covered that isn't? What, what..... uninte1ligible!
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Bill Greeley:
As you guessed unintelligible! go on the air
and read them all or something, I don't know, but.....they
didn't do anything with them at all,
Abbie Hoffman: _
In the, in the, maybe I should ask Nick this cause
I'm always asked in speeches and I always wanted to ask the
question of somebody else. what would you like to see in its
place?
Nicholas Johnson: . '
See in whatsplace?
Abbie H01 n-ht '
Hell, what would you like to see covered? Do you
have....you've uh...you know}.... unintelligible! looking a
lot, I mean, uh......
Nicholas Johnson:
Yeah, well, I've been watching your show all night
long. Abbie Hoffman's show is one of the best thinge......ir
Abbie Hoffman:
1 think....I think.....you're looking tor a Job.
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How about tor starters, how about reality? Why
do we start with that and lee where that takes us.
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Well, the three networks used to have in prime
time,ten-twelve years ego, all three had a continuing
weekly, you know, news documentary or telementary show
and CBS reports that was $150,000 budget, you know, in
those days black and white, 35 millimeter on a weekly
basis. Now, there's only, there's only one show left
and thas Chronolog phonetic! which is a monthly.
Abbie Hoffman:
Hell listen......we had before the first segment,
we had Jack Anderson, you know who has e couple of people
working with him, the telephone and a pencil, and everyday
in his columns there's new stories, important stories. _
Stories about what's going on in high places that they don't
went you to hear about and yet, and this is one guy, and yet
CBS TV in New York City alone has 638 people in its news
staff. NBC, poorer station, has only 528 people in their news
staff in New York City alone. what the.....
Bill Greeley:
Almost 85% off the wire after that, isn't it,
anyway?
Abbie Hoffman:
rnet'b right, it is, it is.
Bill Greeley:
It's traditionally a rewrite medium in news. It
started in radio by reading the morning paper on the air.
Abbie Hoffman: _
This is frightening because the wire services that'e..
that's where everyone practices in e sense, right? I mean,
etter....etter.you get unintelligible! the wire service, you ii dr' gat*snash=r Job, yu know..... ~ -Y - as _92 e;_l
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If They get e story every night like Jeck Andersondoes at unintelligiblel the errilietes would march into
New York end it they cu it out really. They don't want it.
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in a radi 1.-El8V1BiO11........
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Abbie Hoffman:
let's not go back that far.
Bill Greeley:
The radio television news directoxs association
in their convention that year out in Los Angeles their...the
three network presidents, news presidents, who were out
to speak to them and make a plea about the Chicago coverage.
You remember, there was so much teat in these....these news
directors at the local level would not pass the resolution
supporting the networks coverage at Chicago.
Abbie Hoffman:
well, at..,..they'1l get a chance to improve in
San Diego this summer. So, thanks, thanks Rick. I enjoy
seeing your television show every once and a while. Probably
the most radical thing you can talk about on television is
television itself and you do a good Job at it.
Nicholas Johnson:
Thank-you very much.
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Thank you Bill for being here. Sorry John and Morleycouldn't have dropped around..... unintol1igible%. Didn't I
see you some place in the store? This is my lit le boy,
America, on our next....Tuesday night on "Free Time"......well,...
from another country. Doesn't look like a Commie, does he?
well on Tuesday on the next "Free Time" show-on Tuesday, we'll _
be interviewing inmates tron county and state funintelligiblel...
or course if you want to come to the studio, if you want
to get your own show, you know, like I did, you Just write
Free Time a letter. It's Free Time, Channel l3, 20h
eet 58th Street, New York, New York, 10019. tell Them
Abbie sent you. Goodnight Bernadine wherever you ere.
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September 17, 1971, under Hoffman's caption, which reflected
the approval by the United States Court of Appeals USCA!,
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for Court permission to travel to and subsequently reside
in the United States Virgin Islands USVI! during the lest
week of September, 1971, and in the period November, 1971,
through April, 1972.
Reference is further made to Chicago memorandum of
September 21, 1971, under Hoffman's caption, in which it was
stated that the USCA per Assistant United States Attorney AUSA!
James Breen, Northern District of Illinois, had, on October 18,
1971, issued an order granting Hoffman permission to depart
to the Virgin Islands on October 22, 1971, as requested, and
for the period indicated.
dggdctober 15, 1971, a person identifying himself
as Leonar I einglass, 10$ Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey,
telephonically contactFd the Special Agent in Charge, San Juan
Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI! fro Newark,
New Jersey. Heinglass identified himself as the attorney for
Hoffman. He stated that Hoffman had informed him that persons
he had met in St. Thoas, Virgin Islands, had advised him Hoff-
man! that inquiries had been made about him. Heingla§~ desired
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions
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The November 1, 1971, issue of "Time," a weekly
magazine, published in New York City, New York, on page 52
contained the following article:
"Hr. and Mrs. William H. Kunstler requested the
pleasure of the Chicago Sevens Company at a birthday party
in honor of Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale at their
home, West Street, Mamaroneck, N.Y. This highlight of the
social season gathered the conspirators together...for
the first time since their trial ended early in 1970. Draft
beer, chips and pretzels were served, and 35 year old Bobby
was presented with a dark blue sweater. -After blowing out
the seven conspiratorial candles on his chocolate-frosted
cake, the birthday boy toasted all revolutionaries and
political prisoners everywhere.'"
Those who were present at this affair were
identified elsewhere on page 52 as John Frohms, Abbie
Huffman, Rennie Davis, lawyer Leonard weinglass, David
Dellinger, Bobby Seale, laayer William Kunstler, Lotte
Kunstler, Jerry Rubin and Lee Heiner.
Regarding the above individuals a1l,except
Weinglass and Kunst1er,were defendants in the so-called
Conspiracy Seven trial, Chicago, from September, 1969, to
February, 1970, having been indicted earlier by a Federal
Grand Jury, Chicago, on charges of violation of the Federal
Antiriot Statute as a result of actions involving the
Democratic National Convention in August, 1968, in Chicago.
heinglass and Kunstler served as co-defense counsel at
this trial.
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nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property
of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and
its contents are not to be distributed outside
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Hoffman. Drvis, Dellinger, Rubin and Thomas Hayden
not present at this axiair! were found guilty by the trial
jury, however, Fruines and weiner uere acquitted. Seale,
an original defend mt, was severed from the trial in November,
1969, and sentenced by trial Judge Julius Hoffman to four
years incarceraiaon ior contempt of court, without bond.
Likewise, at the conclusion of the trial, over the
days of Fsbruary 14~l5, 1970, all the other defendants and
both attorneys tt.. tired for contempt of court by Judge
Hoffman us u fchult uI their actions and statements in court
during the trial.
All ne=t ~rdered incarcerated uithout bond by Judge
Hoffman, includint Kunwtler and Weiuglass, although the
latter ted ere gfnhtud e stay of incarceration until May 4,
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On Fcbrunry 28, 1970, however, the United States
Court of Appeals USCA!, Seventh Circuit, Chicago, ordered
all the above, e:~:r1<.-pt Seale, admitted to bond, with the
provision that each advise the United States Marshal, Chicago,
of all travel dutsk the state of their residence and secure
court permission for any travel outside the continental limits
of the United States.
On Bay 27, 1971, the USCA ordered Seale admitted to
bond on the Ccntempt citations of November, 1969, under the
same provisions rvnarding travel as the others. n92-92
It might be noted that scale was born October 22,
1936, in Dallas, Texas.
- " ctoher 28, 1971, Deputy United States Hirsh-. Chicago, advised that he could locate no
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Chicago, rflcting travel by Davis or Weinglass to Nev
York State on or about October 22, 1971. Davis maintains
8 residence in Washington, D.C., Weinglass in Nev Jersey.
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Concerning Frinus, uho currently maintains a
residence in Massachusetts, on October 26, 1971, he had made
available to the USU, Chicago, by letter, a travel itinerary
r0f1ecting that on October 21, 1971, he had been in Rochester,
Hen iork, and that on October 22, 1971, he would travel to
WasHln;twn, D.C.There uaslxaindication of travel to
Mamaroneck, New York, October 22, 1971.
Dellinger, Hoifman, Kunstlvr, Rubin 1nd Wicer
all maintain a current residence in New York State.
Fadvised on October 26, 1971, that Scale
had dispa c ed a telegram October 22. 1971, from Oakland,
California, advising of travel that date from San Francisco,
California, to Nea York.
Additio 'nail re arding Davie, it mi 'ht be noted De some 250-300 persons on the campus of the
Univers_ty of Maryland, College Park, Iary1and,that date.
On October 2'1 I971, Deputy USII Chic:.92go,b
advised that there was no record at the office of the USM,
Chicago, reflecting that Davis had advised of travel to
College Park, Maryland, on or about October 21,1971.
A copy of this memorandum is being
office of the U.S. Attnrn~y, Chicago.provided to the
referred to
hlnck extremistRegarding the Black Panther Party,
previously in connection with Scale, it is a
organization started in Oakland, California, in December,
1966. It advocatce the use of guns and guerrilla tactics to
bring about the overthrow of the United States Government.
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Abbott Howard Hoffman appeared as the host of the
Free Time" program aired at 10:30 p.m., October 21, 1971
on National Educational Television, Channel 13, New York City.
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Hi! We'll be having some exciting guests, including
FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, variety television critic
Bill Greeley. We'll have a special guest appearance by one of
our true folk heroes Richard Nixon in a clip from his most
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columnist, Mr. Jack Anderson, who's up here to Join us from
washingnn to talk about our favorite person, J. Edgar Hoover
and some of his friends known as the FBI.
If you'd like to come and Join us and be in the
audience here at "Free Time" you should write us at the show.gitg to"Free Time} 30h west 58th Street, New York, New York,
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was a customer of the FBI a rew months ago. You have to
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This is unrehearsed television.....
Jack Anderson;
I feel like an astronaut or....
Abbie Hoffman: '
well, welcome to New York and "Free Time" Jack.
You know one thing that's always intrigued me is every Sunday
night I Join perhaps 30, 40 million Americans and tuning on
the television set and watching a prime time hour propaganda
exploitation film done by Warner Brothers with the cooperation
and consent of the FBI glorifying our secret police. I
commented to some Russians about this about a month ago and
they said not even in Russia does the NKVD get an hour prime
time. Is this an unusual thing about the American character
that we glorify an organization like the FBI? '
Jack Anderson:
Nell, this is the model for the nation. All FBI
agents look like Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and that's why they're
able to infiltrate the Mafia because you can't tell them when
they're coming you know. They-two FBI agents-short sideburns,
clean cut, they're always in disguise. You never know uhat....
as I say they all look like Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and uh.....
abbie Hoffman: - "
How much is the character of the FBI agent in
particular and the agency in general molded by the leader of
the ship Mr. Hoover?
Jack Anderson:
They're all cast in the image that he wants. They
all dress alike. lhey all look alike. They all have to be
in bed by 2:06 oiclock. fhey..nh...if they get involved in
a ahoot out, as one of them did over here at Kennedy
International not lens ago, they better have their coats
on this way-if they take their coats off, as this fella did
when he ahot the hijacker. Hoover saw the picture in the paper
the following morning reprimanded him for taking his coat off.
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And if their sideburns are too long as another
of the FBI agents who was tangling with the hijackeratnulles,
his picture also unfortunately for him appeared on the front
pages as he was hustling the hijacker off to Justice and Hoover
noticed that his sideburns were Just e little, they were down
to the bottom of his ear, transferred to Indianapolis.
Abbie Hoffman: '
He does have...I have noticed from looking at the
Ten Most wanted, now l6, that he does seem to have this fetish
about long hair, in fact, did you write once that if he
suspects that there's a hippie on the block that he wont.
get out of one of his six bulletproof limousines:
Jack Anderson;
Hell, we did Abbie, we did an investigation of
oover, you know, we felt that he=d been investigating
everybody so somebody ought to investigate him. So we
went around, we tailed his car and we inspected his garbage
and we....we interviewed his neighbors and some of his
neighbors said this, we weren't there when it happened, but
some of his neighbors said that if there was anyone with
long hair within sight, he would sit in his limousine until
they were out of sight before he'd go in...
I heard that he is uh...I don't know if it was
in your column that I read, that he was so paranoid that
he would slouch in one corner of the limousine when £1 went
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While we were tailing him, we caught him going
HO miles an hour in a 30 mile zone incidentally. But uh...
Abbie Hoffman:
You give him a ticket?
Jack Anderson:
My reporter noticed that and said that, first place
the limousine he drives in is bulletproof so presumably he
muaznot have to worry but he must not have faith in it because
he is slouched in one corner like this and his hat was propped
up over in the other corner.
He has two more bulletproof limousines than the
President.
Jack Anderson:
He's got five when I last counted, he's got them
stashed around the country so that when he goes to Los Angeles
he can be greeted in preper.bulletpreef etyle=
Abbie Hoffman:
So we have a very god fearing, patriotic uh thin
discipline at the helm of the ship.....
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Jack Anderson:
All I know is...he caught one of his l7 year old
clerk; cuddling on the couch with his girlfriend. Well this
clerk because he got caught cuddling on his couch past 2:00
o'clock, you're supposed to be in bed by 2:00, after 2:00
o'clock, the girls are supposed to be in their bunks, boys
in their bunks...the girl fell asleep on the couch with this
poor l7 FBI agent, not agent excuse me, he was a clerk. when
this was reported to Hoover, the poor fella he had to write
out a confession, that was the first thing he had to do, a
detailed confession, step by step, minute by minute of how he
spent the entire evening and after the confession was turned
in he got a very strong reprimand fro the Director himself.
Now I don't know how many they have, how many employees they
have, I think it's l7,000,-that Hoover was sufficiently
concerned about this cuddling on the couch that he wrote a
personal letter of reprimand to the young fella.
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' Unintelligiblel.....They're not all bad. I should
say....I'm kind of helpfu in some way, I'm writing this
article on how to rob banks for fun and profit and I've had
a series of correspondence with the EB; over the past two
months and they've been engaged in the bulk of the research.£Unintelligible!......In fact that was how I learned that
he J stood for John because J. Edgar Hoover sends me all the
reports on how the bank robbery.....it's quite a lucrative
field. He does take s personal interest in his correspondence.
Jack Anderson: -
Hell, are you going to share bi-lines with him?
Abbie Hoffman: '
That's another show.
I found another document you might be interested
in....this is a photostat of the order that the Government
went into District Court, Federal Court in Hashington
justifying the wiretapping of my personal phone._ It's signed
by Deputy Attorney General Kleindienst phonetic! and I
presume that the FBI has been in wiretapping people who were
on trial in Chicago at cetera for a number of years. Do you
have any kind of evidence how extensive this
that you have to do to set yourself a letterfgqm gggndienat phonetic!? 1': declared, I
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It's a very rare privilege.
Abbie Hoffman: _
I'm declared a national security hazard which isl
kind of a faulty electrical connection....
Jack Anderson;
It's a very rare privilege but not as rare as the
FBI would like you to believe. The way it w0rks...they get
court orders oh less than a hundred themselves, probably
less than 50 if I remember my figures correctly and when J.
Edgar Hoover appears before Congress and says that he's got
taps only on less than 50 phones....bugs in less than a
hundred places, he's telling the truth. But the way they
eork it, they get local lee enforcement agencies to do the
bugging for them. So, if they want...uh...if they want a
room bugged or a telephone tapped so that it won't be counted
against them and have as a black.on them, they'll get the
local FBI supervisors usually on good terms with some local
law enforcement agency, and they'll get them to do the bugging
or the tapping and turn the information over to the FBI. so
Hoover can really honestly boast that there are réatively
few taps by the FBI.
Abbie Hoffman:
It's sort of farmed out to local agencies. I've a
letter Just this week from_a kid in Dallas who found the Army
Intelligence Division with an office in Dallas and a phone
listing and went to the public library and did a little
Anderson snooping and found that in 21 cities in this country
the Army Intelligence Division also has an outpost, it's kind
of eiero to.....of whet the Army is interested lore...
Jack Anderson:
we got a co y of their list. They have files as Irecsll,on about 30 niglion Americans.
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subversives. And out of the 30 million they count 32h
subversives, as I recall.
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Does the FBI have to be at the helm I mean with e
guy like Hoover always wanting to look? Do they go through
your garbage? ' _
Jack Anderson:
Well, that's....I saw my file over at the FBI and
I decided I better get a better file on Hoover and I think I
have at this point. I think I got more on Hoover than he's
got on me. I know that they use this method to get a profile
on subjects so I thought that it was appropriate that we get
a profile on Hoover.
Abbie Hoffman:
Do you think the character of the agency would change
when he's gone, I mean it's pretty clear that he's gonna die
in this building or in the mausoleum that he's building behind
the Justice Department?
Jack Anderson:
I don't think he accepts that. Hell, I think, if
you want a serious answer, I think it'll be broken up. I
think it'll be broken up because of...
Abbie Hoffman:
He: beginning that now, isn't he, I mean didn't,,...
Jack Anderson:
It's felling apart right non, yeah=
Abbie Hoffman:
Didn't the third in command, is his name William
Eullivan, showed up and found his name removed from the
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Abbie Hoffman:
Did he get sent to Montana?
Jack Anderson:
No he Just got sent home.
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Didn't you write about this little town in Montana
where the population about 200 and about #00 FBI agents, that's
where they all get sent?
Jack Anderson: _
Keep...keep getting all the outcasts. Right! I
expect thought that the FBI might get broken into two at
least, one that goes after spies and one that goes after
criminals.
Abbie Hoffman:
I probably fall in the spy category.
{IJack Anderson;
Prom reading your book I'd say you could qualify
on either aide.
Abbie Hoffman:
I know in the plane for the new building,which is
going to draw! the Justice Department which of course is the
overseer of the E31, 1 heer...it'e about a hundred million
dollars, I hear it's the largest funded federal building ever
built and half the building will be devoted to files and
computers about subversive: and spies and.....
Jack Anderson:
The other half will be taken up pictures of J.
Edgar Hoover.
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He does....it's kind of interesting to visit their
place. I was taken on a tour about a month ago and...I had
noticed a change in the character in fact.....
Jack Anderson: :
Has this a voluntary tour?
Abbie Hoffman:
Hell, I was persuaded, it was about 2:00 a.m. and
I was persuaded in my hall to come and visit there.....the
most....the thing that stuck out most in their mind was
when we had had a demonstration outside the FBI building, I
mean, it's...they really don't care too much about what you
do about the rest of the country it's sort of like unit
unto themselves and unintelligible! you know for their own
best of interest, Have you noticed a change in them because
they were quite rough this time with me, in fact, I had
written if you're gonna get arrested you should get arrested
by the FBI because they're very nice about it but this time
they were quite rough and I thought I had attributed to their
inability to catch any of the, you know, young fugitives,
young radical fugitives that are on the Ten Most Wanted list
and their inability to process people involved in some of
the bombings that are going on. Do you feel they're actingdifferently? v
Jack Ander ,
Hell I think they're frustrated. I...There were
several federal agents that infiltrated those doings in
Washington about 100 did I, according to a figure that was
n to me b one of my sources, that they were almost allsive ar
narcotics agents because narcotcis agents look like you, you
d b d and all the works you see know all this bushy hair an ear aan the rs: as I ma all their agents look like Zinbalist an
they have a heck of a time infiltrating one of these things.
As one of the narcotics agents told me, he said, the FBI...an
FBI agent's idea of infiltrating one of these demonstrations
take off his tie. I imagine that.....I imagine that they had
to take out their frustrations in other ways now.
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Abbie Hoffman:
Do you have any evidence that, you know of any
occasionslike the story that was on channel l3 last week
about FBI infiltrating radical groups and planning bombings,
planning to kill people and, in some cases actually carrying
them out? Do you know this film I'm referring to?
Jlck Anderson:
Yes, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. couldn't infiltrate any
radical group. They have informants, sure, they'll buy
informants or they'll or somebody who gets disgruntled might
go to them and they'll use them as informants. But to say
that agents have infiltrated these groups is_ridiculous.
That's one of their problems, their agents are....because
they all look alike and have these short sideburns and the
all American wheaties eating look, they're incapable of
infiltration. That they do have a lot of informants, that's
true. And, they're informants, they have informants both
in the mafia and various branches of the revolution.
Abbie Hoffman:
Why have they had so much difficulty given that
guise, in infiltrating say large business corporations who
are guilty of, you know, for example the story that you
broke this week about the oil companies ignoring the wage
price neeze. This would seem to be a violation of, you know,
some kind of federal law..a..
Jack Anderson:
They havens Jurisdiction.
Abbie Hoffman;
They have Jrrisdiction over organized crime
certainly and they.....didn't they Just recognize it
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Yeah, that's true, that's true. Mr. Hoover laid
that there has no organised eriae until he got Jurisdiction
over it and then he admitted that there use a mafia, after
that he said there was no mafia. It was quoted quite, quoted uh...
quite frequently, disagreeing with the Narcotics Bureau which
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insisted there was a mafia. It was a great debate in
Washington unintelligible! there was a mafia with Mr.
Hoover saying there wasn't. Then he changed his mind when
he got Jurisdiction over the mafia,then he said there was
one. 0nly....he had to have his way so he called it La
Cosa Nostra.
Abbie Hbffman: .
One thing that's intriguing Jack is the one guy
with the pencil and the tephone down there in Washington
and here we have, well, CBS News, in New York alone CBS has
more than B00 people on their news team, NBS has more
than 500 and yet when it comes to investigative reporting
they seem to bog down. How do you get your informtion?
Is it all gone through garbage?
Jack Anderson:
Hell, when we...after we went through Hoover's
garbage we got a lot of mail from people saying that they
had suspected all along that's where we got our information.
But that isn't.....we get about 300 letters a day. we have
the reputation for it so people write to us and people who
have stories to tell look to us to investigate them. Mostly
you get them by digging. You're sure not going to get any
out of a press handout. Yodre not going to get any at e
press conference and I think it's true that TV doesn't cover
this side of Washington, this side of the country. I thing
too many TV ccmentatore are repeaters rather than reporters
Abbie Hoffman:
you suppress any stories because of your own
victiona, your own ideas about the country and
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Wallace B unintelligible! and my kids were playing withhis gr d I was tempted because I figured I wasandaon en
gonna unintelligible! problem at the playground. But I
decide against it and ran the story.
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unintelligible! more than Just a bungaling baffoon who's
ou know at his desk, did you, did you do the story abouthis desk, how he has an agent come in and make a map of
every little item on his desk with a ruler, remove the
items, shine the desk top and put the items.......
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No, that's not my story but I'll tell you the one
that is my story. The one that is my story, the one that I
did write was the time that he was down in La Jolla watching
the races. And he was going to be gone for three or four
weeks and an FBI agent with a cup of coffee came into the
inner sanctum, and I suppose apparently sat in the great man's
chair and probably had a Walter Mitty dream or two and in the
course of it he spilled some coffee on the rug. Well, that
caused one of the greatest crisis that you ever had at the
FBI. They tried to sop up the coffee stains and they couldn't
get it out. They went to the FBI, this happened, they went
to the FBI Laboratory and with all their modern techniques,
they can identify Abbie Hoffman from a hair pulled out of his
head probably, but they couldn't take the coffee stain out
of the rug. Well, they couldn't afford to have coffee
stain on the rug when the old man came back so some, by this
time, the problem had gone right on up almost to the top and
everybody was equally concerned about the coffee stain so
they decided to replace the rug. Well, they located the
company that had put it in, as I recall it was a Baltimre
company. They went to the company and the rug was out of
stock and so they told them it was an urgent FBI matter and
they got the old pattern and they weaved a new rug. How
this really happened. And they put it, they installed it in
Hoover's office and until I wrote about it he hadn't heard.
Abbie Hoffman: _ .
Must have been away at the racetrack. The first
time I was busted by an FBI agent I had read the book, The
FBI Nobody Knows" and there had been a story in there that
I was interested in and I said to the agent, how come your
hands are sweat 1 he I had read that J. Edgar Hoover unintelligibleg believe that if sweaty palms is a sign of
subversion se,,,,the agent had two hankies, one in here which
has to be folded in a certain three pointed way for purity,
boldness and truth, I guess, and they have to have another
one for greeting the chief.
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FBI agent can get into a lot of trouble if his
sideburns are too long, if he has sweaty.palms, if his hair
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Abbie Hoffman:
There must be some struggle going on and,within
the FBI. Do you get much information right from within
the bowels of the Bureau itself?
Jack Anderson:
That's appropriate...Yeah there's no question
about it. I would say though, to give you a serious answer,
that two or three years ago we couldn't have broken in,
we couldn't have cracked that ring. Security is pretty
tight, but today it's a shambles. Today moralis low, agents
are frustrated, everyone: talking.
Abbie Hoffman:
I was intrigued by the first letter that I got from
him and the kind of language he used was _ unintelligible!
Washington as the seat of Government, the Central Government
in that kind of how much 19th century language,
Jack Anderson:
Hell, he: basically a Washington creature. He's
basically a Bureaucrat. His skill is unintelligible! in
law enforcement than it in mastering the bureaucratic maze,
the bureaucratic Jungle. He knows his way around in the
Jungle-
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Did y he President: Analyst? what did youthink of the po;tr;yal'or the CIA agents as opposed to the
portrayal of the FBI agentl?
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I'm trying to remember. I don't remember....
Abbie Hoffman: _
Well, the CIA agents all came from Harvard,
had patches on their coats, smoked pipes and used a lot
of big words, the FBI agents all had suits......Richard
Nixon was the FBI agent, John Kennedy was the CIA agent.
Jack Anderson:
I think that's about right. I think that the CIA
people mostly come off wearing tweed Jackets and puffing
on pipes and the FBI, they're more square, they come out unintelligiblea Kansas City Jack Armstrongs. I think that's
probably correc . They've been fighting lately. Mr. Hoover
won't let FBI agents talk to CIA agents anymore.
Abbie Hoffman:
That involved unintelligibleg case that you had
mentioned but I didn't understand unin elligible! there
seems to be a body missing in Colorado,is it, of.......
Jack Anderson: _
It use a complex case in Colorado and the reason
that Hoover got upset was that he wanted to get information
from as to which one of his FBI agents had ratted, which
one had squealed to the CIA. They had passed on soe
information to the CIA. He didn't like it and he wanted to
know who had given them the information, the CIA wouldn't say
So he cut off diplomatic relations with the CIA.
Abbie Hoffman:
Hell, you want to comment about this week's story
about theajor oil companies and how they successfully manage
to avoid the wage price freeze unintelligible! and a number
of other things? ' '
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The aaJor oil companies in this country, and since
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we're talking about great patriots like Mr. Hoover, the
greatest patriots of all unintelligible!. They wave the
flag, they hide behind it they wrap themselves in it.
Unintelligible! and they can afford to be because they
make no contribution. I checknthe last figures, it seems
to me, T donit want to be unfair to any of them unintelligible!
pure oil, they made hundreds of millions of dollars in
profits, they didn't pay a penny in taxes. Gulf Oil made
close to a billion dollars in taxes, in profits and paid
less than one percent in taxes so they're making no
contribution. That means that we're paying unintelligible!
taxes. Well, they're not satisfied with that, they're not
even patriotic as they claim to be, they......up the price
of unintelligible! in defiance of the President's price
freeze. They thought they could get away with unintelligible!
that doesn't sound like very much but when you add all the
gallons together it amounts to a $110,000 windfall. And,
they did this in a very peculiar fashion. Texaco and Gulf
put out identical announcements, cr almost. identical
announcements, in fact their announcements had the famous
stake in, we've heard of the office of emergency unintelligible!
is the office of emergency planning. So this raises some
anti-tnist questions too.
Abbie Hoffman:
HeIL unintel11gible! anti-freeze.
It's been good having your here Jack. Come up
visit. He'll get together.......come up to the house and
get your picture taken. we're going to have some music
now by Bussy Linhart and his friends. Buzzyl {D
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hi est was the columnist Jack Anderson. This program was monitored by S 8"
the New York Office and we have now received a transcript of the program which
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Director, and Abbie Hoffman contributed his usual nonsense. These charges __have been refuted many times in the past and simply as a summary, some yr
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The Agent who shot the hijacker in New York was
reprimanded because he had his coat off. This charge in
spite of the Director's letter to "The Washington Post. "!
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than 50 phone taps and 100 "bugs" but actually has local police do
bugging or tapping for the FBI. _
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"Free Time" program aired at 10:30 p.m., October 21, 1971
on National Educational Television, Channel 13, New York City.
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Abbie Hoffman:
FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, variety television critic
Bill Greeley. We'll hav a special guest appearance by one of
our true folk heroes Richard Nixon in a clip from his most
famous political speech, the Chagrg speech. We'll have
music by Buzzy Linhart and we'll have my favorite newspaper
columnist, Mr. Jack Anderson, who's up here to Join us from
washingnn to talk about our favorite person, J. Edgar Hoover
and some of his friends known as the FBI.Hi! we'll be haying some exciting guests, including
If you'd like to some and join us and he in the
audience here at "Free Time" you should write us at the show.
Write to"Free Timef 305 West 58th Street, New York, New York,
10019.
We have here one of the posters that I got when I
was a customer of the FBI a few months ago. You have to
imagine this blown up to about five times its size, in a room
about five or six times this size and about twenty or thirty
typists sitting at the board. And these are the hind of posters..
if you want one you can go over to the FBI building, it's
located on East_69th Street, and I'm sure they'd love to give
you a free poster Just like the one I got.
To know more about.the FBI we'll be talking to
Jack Anderson as I said. Jack Anderson appears in over 00
newspapers around the country, here in New York you can ind '
him in the "New York Post" snuggled up next to Harrie an Horne
under the eetehrul eyes or Mr. Buckley and Mr. weenie-
honetic and intelligible of rational thought. He hasmgny avid!readers¥1Ex-Senator ghmae Dodd is an avid reader.
The major heads of oil corporations are avid readers. Al
Oapp is an avid reader. Perhaps the most avid reader or all
1; John Edgar Hoover, known to us arrectionally as J. Edgar.So it'aFa pleasure to welcome Jack Anderson here to New York
and to ree Time.
This is gonna go over here.
Hi Jack, good to meet you.
Jack Anderson:=
Good to be here.
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This is unrehearsed television.....
Jack Anderson;
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Abbie Hoffman:
Well, welcome to New York and "Free Time" Jack.
You know one thing that's always intrigued me is every Sunday
night I Join perhaps 30, H0 million Americans and tuning on
the television set and watching a prime time hour propaganda
exploitation film done by Werner Brothers with the cooperation
end consent of the FBI glorifying our secret police. I
commented to some Russians about this about a month ago and
they said not even in Russia does the HKVD get an hour prime
time. Is this an unusual thing about the American character
that we glorify an organization like the FBI? ' -
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Hell, this is/the model for the nation. All FBI
agents look like Efren Zinbaliet ir. and that's why they're
able to infiltrate the Mafia because you can't tell them when
they're coming you know. They-two FBI agents-short sideburns,
clean cut they're always in disguise. You never know what....as I say they all look like Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and
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How much is the character of the nt inn;
particular and the agency in general aolde ' ' leader of
the ship Hr. Hoover?
Jack Anderson:
They're all cast in the iaage that he wants. They
all dress alike. they all look alike. They all have to be
in bed by 2:00 o'clock. They..uh...if they get involved in
a shoot out, as one of them did over here at Kennedy
International not lees ago, they better hare their coats
on this way-if they take their coats off, as this fella did
when he shot the hijacker. Hoover saw the picture in the paper
the following morning reprznanded him for taking his coat off.
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And if their sideburns are too long as another
of the FBI agents who was tangling with the hijsckegetbulles,
his picture also unfortunately for him appeared on the front
pages as he was hustling the higacker off to Justice and Hoover
noticed that his sideburns were Just e little, they were down
to the bottom of his ear, transferred to Indianapolis.
Abbie Hoffman:
He does heve...I have noticed from looking at the
Ten Most wanted, now 16, that he does seem to have this fetish
about long hair, in fact, did you write once that if he
suspects that there's s hippie on the block that he wont
get out of one of his six bulletproof limousines.
Jack Anderson:
Well, we did Abbie, we did on investigation of
Hoover, you know, we felt that he'd been investigating
everybody so somebody ought to investigate him. So we
went around, we tailed his car and we inspected his garbage
and we....we interviewed his neighbors and some or his
neighbors said this, we weren't there when it happened butsome of his neighbors said that if there was anyone with
long hair within sight, he would sit in his limousine until
they were out of sight before he'd go in...
Abbie Hoffman:
I heard that he is uh...I don't know if it was
in your column that I reed, that he was so paranoid that,
he would slouch in one corner or the limousine when he went
so work....
Jack Anderson:
We spotted that.....
Abbie Hofflln:
...put his hat on the other corner....
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Jack Anderson:
While we were tailing him, we caught him going
H0 miles an hour in e 30 mile zone incidentally. But uh...
Abbie Hoffman:
You give him a ticket?
Jack Anderson:
My reporter noticed that and said that, first place
the limousine he drives in is bulletproof so presumably he
nu.not have to worry but he must not have faith in it because
he is slouched in one corner like this and his hat was propped
up over in the other corner.
Abbie Hoffman:
He hes two more bulletproof limousines than the
President.
Jack Anderson:
He's got five when I lest counted, he's got them
stashed around the country so that when he goes to Los Angeles
he can be greeted in proper bulletproof style.
Abbie Hoffman: '
So we have e very god fearing, patriotic uh thin
discipline st the helm of the ship.....
Jack Anderson:
Every efternoon,we found, he sits st his dest, this
bulldog of e law enforcement officer, he sits at his desk and
he very painstakingly writes out the menu, whet he wants to
est that night, which is delivered to his cook end it's cooked
to order. You can see the heed of the FBI writing crab bisque,
asparagus tips end these are some of the things thst....
Abbie Hoffnsn:
I've heerd his comment in e few articles that he
use egeinst pre-neritel sex end since he's now 76 end has not
been nsrrisd, do you think it's safe to assume thst he's
never, I don't know, indulged.....
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Jack Anderson;
All I know is...he caught one of his l7 year old
clerks cuddling on the couch with his girlfriend. Hell this
clerk because he got caught cuddling on his couch past 2:00
o'clock, you're supposed to be in bed by 2:00, after 2:00
o*elock, the girls are supposed to be in their bunks, boys
in their bunks...the girl fell asleep on the couch with this
poor 17 FBI agent, not agent excuse me, he was a clerk. when
this was reported to Hoover, the poor fella he had to write
out a confession, that was the first thing he had to do, a
detailed confession, step by step, minute by minute of how he
spent the entire evening and after the confession was turned
in he got e very strong reprimand from the Director himself.
Now I dont know how many they have, how many employees they
here, I think it's 17,000, that Hooter iii enfficiently
concerned about this cuddling on the couch that he wrote a
personal letter of reprimand to the young fella.
Abbie Hoffman:
Unintelligibleg.....They're not all bed. I should
say....I'n kind of helpfu in some way, I'm writing this
article on how to rob banks for fun and profit and I've had
e series of correspondence with the FBI over the pest tie
months and they've been engaged in the bulk of the research.£Uintelligible!......In fact that was how I learned that
he J stood for John because J. Edgar Hoover sends me all the
reports on hoe the bank robbery.....it's quite a lucrativefield. He does take s personal interest in his correspondence
Jack Anderson: " "
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Abbie Hoffman:
That's another show.
I found another document you might be interested
in....thie is e photostet of the order that the Government
sent into District Court, Federal Court in Washington
justifying the wiretapping of iy personal phone. Itie signed
by Deputy Attorney General Kleindienst phonetic! and I
presume that the FBI has been in wiretapping people who were
on trial in Chicago et eetere for e number or years. Do you
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Jack Anderson:
It's a very rare privilege.
Abbie Hoffman;
I'm declared a national security hazard which is
kind of a faulty electrical connection....
Jack Anderson;
It's a very rare privilege but not as rare as the
FBI would like you to believe. The way it works...they get
court orders oh less than a hundred themselves, probably
less than 50 if I remember my figures correctly and when J.
Edgar Hoover appears before Congress and says that he's got
taps only on less than 50 phones....bugs in less than a
hundred places, he's telling the truth. But the way they
york it, they get local law enforcement agencies to do the
bugging for then. So, if they uent...uh...if they want a
room bugged or a telephone tapped so that it_qon't be counted
against them and have as a black.on then, they'll get the
local FBI supervisors usually on good terms with sme local
law enforcement agency, and they'll get then to do the bugging
or the tapping and turn the information over to the FBI. So
Hoover can really honestly boast that there are reatively
few taps by the FBI. '
Abbie Hoffman: _
It's sort of farmed out to local agencies. I've a
letter Just this week from a kid in Dallas who found the Army
Intelligence Division with an office in Dallas and a phone
listing and went to the public library and did a little
Anderson snooping and found that in 214 cities in_this_country
the Army Intelligence Division also has an outpost, it's kind
of uierd to.....of what the Army is interested in.....
Jack Anderson:
He got a copyiof their list. They have fileg as I
recall,on about 30 mi on Americana.
Abbie Hoffman:
That's the Army!
Jack Anderson:
Thlt'l H9 51"!» Ind we got a list of their
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Abbie Hoffman:
Does the FBI have to be at the helm I mean with a
guy like Hoover always wanting to look? Do they go through
your garbage? _
Jack Anderson: _
Well, that's....I saw my file over at the FBI and
I decided I better get a better rile on Hoover and I think I
have at this point. I think I got more on Hoover than he's
got on me. I know that they use this method to get a profile
on subjects so I thought that it was appropriate that we get
a profile on Hoover.
Abbie Hoffman:
Do you think the character or the agency would change
when he's gone, I mean it's pretty clear that he's gonna die
in this building or in the mausoleum that he's building behind
the Justice Department?
Jack Anderson:
I don't think he accepts that. Well, I think, if
you want a serious answer, I think it'll be broken up. I
think it'll be broken up because or...
Abbie Hoffman: - ' _
He's beginning that now, isn't he, I mean didn't.....
Jack Anderson:
It's falling apart right now, yeah.
Abbie Hartman:
Didn't the third in command, is his name William
sullivan, showed up and round his name removed {rm the
door....
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Jack Anderson:
......the locks changed. It was a gentle way of
telling him that he'd been fired.
Abbie Hoffman:
Did he get sent to Montana?
Jack Anderson:
No he Just got sent home.
Abbie Hoffman:
Didn't you write about this little town in Montana
uhere the population about 200 and about #00 FBI agents, that's
where they all get sent?
Kee¬...keep getting all the outcasts. Right! I
expect though that the FBI might get broken into two at
least, one that goes after spies and one that goes after
criminals.
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He does....it's kind of interesting to visit their
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noticed a change in the character in fact.....
Jack Anderson:
Has this a voluntary tour?
Abbie Hoffman:
Hell, I was persuaded, it was about 2:90 a.m. and
I has persuaded in my hall to cone and visit there.....the
most....the thing that stuck out most in their mind was
when we had had a demonstration outside the FBI building, I
mean, it's...they really don't care too much about what you
do about the rest of the country it's sort of like unit
unto themselves and unintelligible! you know for their own
best of interest; Have you noticed a change in them because
they were quite rough this time with me, in fact, I had
written if you're gonna get arrested you should get arrested
by the FBI because they're very nice about it but this time
they were quite rough and I thought I had attributed to their
inability to catch any or the, you know, young fugitives,
young radical fugitives that are on the Ten Most Wanted list
and their inability to process people involved in some of
the bombings that are going o. Do you reel they're acting
differently?
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Hell I think they're frustrated. I...There were
several federal agents that infiltrated those doings in
Washington about 100 did I, according to a figure that was
given to me by one of my sources, that they were almost all
narcotics agents because narcotcis agents look like you, you
know all this bushy hair and beard and all the works you see.But the rs: as 1 said all their agents look like Ziszbalist and
they have a hack of a time infiltrating one or these things.
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take oft his tie. I imagine that.....I imagine that they had
to take ot their frustrations in other ways now.
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Abbie Hoffman;
Do you have any evidence that, you know of any
occasionlike the story that was on Channel 13 last week
about FBI infiltrating radical groups and planning bombings,
planning to kill people and, in some cases actually carrying
then out? Do you know this film I'm referring to?
Jock Anderson:
Yea, Efren Zinbaliat Jr: oon1an't infiltrate any
radical group. They have informants, sure, they'll buy
informants or they'll or somebody who gets disgruntled might
go to them and they'll use them as informants. But to say
that agents have infiltrated these groups is_ridiculous.
That's one of their problems, their agents are....because
they all look alike and have these short sideburns and the
all American wheaties eating look, they're incapable of
infiltration. That they do have a lot of informants, that's
truer And, they're infornants, they have infornanta both
in the mafia and various branches of the revolution.
Abbi HOffDBnl
Why have they hd so much difficulty given that
guise, in infiltrating say large business corporations who
are guilty of, you know, for example the story that you
broke this week about the oil companies ignoring the sage
price aeeee, lhie would eeen to be e violation of, yon anon,
some kind of federal law.....
Jack Anderson:
They haveno Jurisdiction.
Abbie Hoffman: '
They have in-isdiction over organized crime
certainly and they-...-didn't they Just recognize it
about a year and a half ago?
Jack Anderson:
Yeah, that's true, that's true. Mr. Hoover said
that there was no organised erine until he got Jurisdiction
over it and than he admitted that there was a mafia afterthat he eeid there eee no !¥!l§e it eee quoted euite, quoted uh..-
quite frequently, disagreeing with the Iareotica Breau which
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insisted there sss s ssfis. It use s greet debete in
Washington unintelligible! there was e mafia with Mr.
Hoover saying there wasn't. Then he changed his mind when
he got Jurisdiction over the maria,then he said there was
one, only....he had to have his way so he called it Ls
Cosa Nostra.
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with the pencil end tiephone down there in Washington
end here we have, well, CBS Hews, in New York alone CBS has
more than 400 people on their news teem NBS has morethan 500 end yet when it cones to investigative reporting
they seem to bog down. How do you get your information?
Is it all gone through garbage?hn +UAAG v
Jack Anderson:
Hell, when se...srter we went through Hoover's
garbege we got s lot of mail from people saying that they
hed suspected ell along that's where we got our information.
But thst isn't,....ue get ebout 300 letters s dey. He here
the reputation for it so people write to us end people who
have stories to tell look to us to investigste them. Mostly
you get them by digging. You're sure not going to get any
out of e press handout. Yours not going to get sny st s
press conference and i think itis true that T? doesnit cover
this side of Washington, this side or the country. I thing
too many TV commentators are repeaters rather than reporters
Abbie Entrees: .
Do .you suppress any stories because of your owngoliticel convictions, your own ideas sbout the country and
ow it should go?
Jack Anderson:
I use tempted once. I got e story on §enforus-IHellece e {unintelligible} end ay aide eere playing -i
his gre.nd""s_on"_snd I ses tempted becsuse I figured I usegonna sunintelligibig problem st the pleyground. But I
decide illilst it rsn the story.
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unintelligible! more than Just a bungaling baffoon who's{cu know at his desk, did you, did you do the story about
his desk, hoe he has an agent cone in and make a nap of
every little item on his desk with a ruler, remove the
items, shine the desk top and put the items.......
Jack Anderson:
No, that's not my story but I'll tell you the one
that is my story. The one that is my story, the one that 1
did write was the time that he was down in La Jolla watching
the races. and he was going to be gene for three or four
weeks and an FBI agent with a cup of coffee came into the
inner sanchn, and I suppose apparently sat in the great man's
chair and probably had a Halter Mitty dream or two and in the
course of it he spilled some coffee on the rug. Hell, that
caused one of the greatest crisis that you ever had at the
FBI. They tried to sop up the coffee stains and they couldn't
get it out. They went to the FBI, this happened, they_went
to the FBI Laboratory and with all their modern techniques,
they can identify Abbie Heffean from a hair_pulled cut cf hie
head probably, but they couldn't take the coffee stain out
of the rug. Hell, they couldn't afford to have coffee
stain on the rug when the old man came back so some, by this
time, the problem had gone right on up almost to the top and
everybody was equally concerned about the coffee stain so
they decided to replace the rug. swell, they located the
company that had put it in, as I recall it was a Baltinre
company. They went to the company and the rug was out of
stock and so they told them it see an urgent FBI matter she
they got the old pattern and they weaved a new rug. New
this really happened. And they put it, they installed it in
Hoover's office and until I wrote about it he hadn't heard.
Abbie Hoffman: 7
Must have been away at the racetrack. The first
time I was busted by an FBI agent I had read the book, The
FBI Eebedy Knees and re bed been a story in there that
I was interested in and I said to the agent, how cone your
hands are sweat ? As I had read that J. Edgar Hoover unintel1igibls{ believe that if sweaty palms is a sign of
subversion so....the agent had two hsnkies, one in here which
has to be folded in a certain three pointed way for purity,
boldness and truth, I guess, and they have to have another
one for greeting the chief.
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Jack Anderson:
FBI agent can get into a lot of trouble if his
sideburns are too long, if he has sweaty palms, if his hair
isn't cut Just properly and if his coat is off or not
properly buttoned.
Abbie Hoffman:
There must be some struggle going on and,within
the FBI. Do you get much information right from within
the bowels of the Bureau itself?
Jack Anderson:
That's appropriate...Yeah there's no question
about it. I would say though, to give you a serious answer,
that two or three years ago ea eeuldnlt have broken in,
we couldn't have cracked that ring. Security is pretty
tight, but today it's a shambles. Today moral : is low, agents
are frustrated, everyone: talking.
Abbie Hoffman:
I was intrigued by the first letter that I got fromhim and the kind or language he used was _gunintelligible!
Haehingten as the Seat of Government, the oentral Government
in that kind of how much 19th Century language.
Jack Anderson:
Hell, he's basically a Washington creature. He's
basically a Bureaucrat. His skill is unintelligible! in
law enforcement than it is mastering the bureaucratic maze,
the bureaucratic Jungle. He knows his way around in the
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Did you see the President's Analyst? what did you
think or the portrayal or the CIA agents as opposed to the
portrayal or the FBI agents?
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Jack Anderson;
I'm trying to remember. I don't remember....
Abbie Hoffman:
Well, the CIA agents all came from Harvard,
had patches on their coats, smoked pipes and used a lot
of big words, the FBI agents all had suits......Bichard
Nixon was the FBI agent, John Kennedy was the CIA agent.
Jack Anderson:
I think that=i about right. I think that the CIA
people mostly cone off wearing tweed Jackets and puffing
on pipes and the FBI, they're no square, they come out unintelligible; Kansas City Jae Armstrongs. I think thatls
probably correc . They've been _ighting lately. er. Hoover
won't let FBI agents talk to CIA agents anymore.
Abbie Hoffman:
That involved unintelli blez case that you hadmentioned but I didn't understand %:nin elligible! there
seems to be a body missing in Colorado,ie it, of.......
Jae; Anderson: _
It was a complex case in Colorado and the reason
that Hoover got upset was that he wanted to get information
from as to which one of his FBI agents had ratted, which
one had squealed to the Cl. They hid passed on some
information to the CIA. He didn't like it and he wanted to
know who had given them the information, the CIA wouldn't say
So he cut off diplomatic relations with the CIA.
Abbie Hoffman:
Hell, you want to comment about this week's story
about theaajor oil companies and how they successfully manage
to avoid the wage price freeze unintelligible! and a number
of other things? '
Jack Anderlon:
The naJor oil cooaniea in this country, and since
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we're talking about greet patriots like Mr. Hoover, the
greatest patriots of all unintelligible!. They wave the
flag, they hide behind it they wrap themselves in it.
Unintelligible! and they can afford to be because they
make no contribution. I checknthe last figures, it seems
to me, I don't want to be unfair to any of them unintelligible!
pure oil, they made hundreds of millions of dollars in
profits, they didn't pay a penny in taxes. Gulf Oil made
close to a billion dollars in taxes, in profits and paid
less than one percent in taxes so they're making no
contribution. That means that we're paying unintelligible!
taxes. Well, they're not satisfied with that, they're not
even patriotic as they claim to be, they......up the price
of unintelligible! in defiance of the President's price
freeze. They thought they could get away with unintelligible!
that doesn't sound like very much but when you add all the
gallons together it amounts to a $110,000 windfall. And,
they did this in a very peculiar fashion. Texaco and Gulf
put out identical announcements, 11' almost. identical
announcements, in fact their announcements had the famous
staie in, we've heard of the office of emergency unintelligible!
is the office of emergency planning. So this raises some
anti-tnzst questions too.
Abbie Hoffman:
HeIL uninte11igible! anti-freeze.
It's been good having your here Jack. Come uyv
visit. He'll get together.......come up to the house and
get your picture taken. we're going to have some music
new by Bussy Linhart and his friends. Buzzyl
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Reference is made to the memorandum of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI! dated October 7, 1971,
at San Juan, Puerto Rico, regarding the activities of
Hoffman while on a visit to the U. S. Virgin Islands.
0n October 1, 1971, a Special Agent SA! of the
FBI examined the rental car turned in by Hoffman andfbund
among other papers was a St. Thomas guidebook in which the
following had been written on the cover:
"Dan - 5-0028" and "Lynn R150."
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and building corporation, advised that Dsnfjévinson was '
employed by Nest Indies Enterprises as an engineer._stated that Levinson had been so employed sinceapproxima ely the summer of 1%9-_I']OIB little
about levinson other than that he is acpiet individual and
s competent employee. Levinson does little tield work and
spends most of his working day in the orrice._
believes that Levinson's wire is related to one of the
owners of the "21 lub" in ies York City.
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On October 5, 1971, a person identifying
himself as Dan Levinson telephonically contacted the officeof the Resident Agency RA! of the FBI at St. Thomas,Virgin Islanis. He stated, that had
informed him that the FBI was interes e n m and that
he expected it was because Abbie Hoffman had stayed in
Levinson's house during Hofman's recent visit to
St. Thomas. Levinson said that Hoffman had a friend
who was a friend of Levinson's brother residing in
horcester, Massachusetts, and that Hoffman had learned
from this friend that Levinson had rental quarters at
his residence on St. Thomas. Hoffman called Levinson
and asked if he could stay with him for a few days and
an arrangement was made. He met Hoffman at the airport
when Hoffman arrived on St. Thomas on September 27, 1971.
Levinson advised that he was born on May 2, 1943,
at Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended hcsill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and graduated from Worcester
Technical Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1967.
He came to St. Thomas in June, 1969. His wife's maiden
name was Lawrence. At this point, Levinson advised that
his wife, who was at his side, requested that he give no
further information and the telephone call was terminated.
On October 22, l9?l, an SA of the FBI observed
Hoffman, Hoffman's wife and infant, arrive at St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands, aboard Pan American Airlines FAA! flight 269
from New York, New York, at approximately 1:50 p.m. Hoffman
collectedhis baggage and departed the terminal with his
family in a taxi.
On October 25, 1971, an SA of the FBI observed
that e mailbox, of the rural delivery type, bad been in=
stalled in the entrance to the area known as Frenchman's
Bay Estate, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and thatthis
mailbox bears the wording "Hoffman - Crosetti, 14-41
Frenchman: Bay." Rb vehicle was observed in the Hoffman
residence at this time.
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On November 2 1971 Ramsey 8Motors, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, advised that Hoffman
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319030371, Virgin Islands license T-3883.
that Hoffman had used the name
making the purchase of
was Abbie H:
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Frenchman's Bay Estate, St. Thomas, Virgin Is_J,ands_.__
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by the pnildren and Youth Project, Department of Health,
Government of the Virgin Islands. He advised that Lynn
I-evinson is the wife of Darfizvinson, who works with West
Indies Enterprises.r:_ _
A... -_-_uh november 3, 1971, : PM,
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, advised that A. Hoffman held
a reservation on PM flight 456 leaving San Juan, Puerto
Rico, on Iovember ll, 1971, at 10:30 a.m. destined for Miami,
Florida. This reservation was made through PAA, Boston,
Massachusetts, with a ct number and being given as617-731-3500. d no information regarding
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A. Hoffman held a reservation with Eastern Airlines EAL!, On Novgmber 3, 1971,PAA
flight 132 on November 4, 1971, for travel from Miami to
Tallahassee, Florida. He had no information regarding
Hoffman's return reservations.
OnNovember H, 1971, an SA of the FBI at
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, observed Hoffman board a
Caribair flight departing St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, at
9:00 a.m. destined for San Juan, Puerto Rico.
On
Juan, PuertoNovember R, 1971, an SA of the FBI at San
Rico, observed Hoffman board PAA flight 1456
at 10:30 a.m. destined for Miami, Florida.
OnNovember 5, 1971, an SA of the FBI at
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, observed Hoffman arrive aboard
EAL flight 993 from Miami, Florida, at approximately h=55
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st. Thomas, Virgin Is1ands,'advised that Anit-I92;{Hoffman,November 10, 197.1, PAA,
helsed to be identical with subject's wife, had departed
St. Thomas, Yi;gin_Islands, that date aboard PMA flight 262
scheduled to arrive in §gg~!drn_c1ty at 5555 p.m. the same
date. Anita Hoffman held return reservations on EAL I _
flight 939 on November lb, 1971, from New York to San Juan
continuing on Caribair flight 769, November l, 1971, from
an Juan to 5t, Thomas. The reservations had been made
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This is to advise of developments in the case in which
Abbie Hoffman was indicted 5/13/71 by a Federal Grand
Washington, D.C., on antiriot charges. The charges w
his travel from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., to part
in the disruptions during Mayday Demonstrations in Wa
during the Spring of 1971, and his interference with
enforcement officer during the disruptions.
By pre-trial motion, Hoffman raised theeiec
surveillance issue. On 11/23/71 the court ruled that
the overhearings oi Hoffman were illegal because they
authorized by the Attorney General under Presidential
and were directed against domestic organizations. At
time, trial date was set for 12/13/71.
Departmental Attorney Joseph Tafe, Internal
Division, has now advised that a Government motion fo
unopposed by defense counsel, was granted by the cour
The motion specifies that the Hoffman case is to be c
a decision is handed down in the case U.S. vs. Keith,
which case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The
case, according to Tafe, involves the question regard
legality of electronic survdllance of domestic organi
authorized under Presidential authority.
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Re Chicago teletype 12/9/71 under HOFFMAN's captionand that of WILLIAM MOSES KUNSTLER and DAVID TYRE DELLINGER,aka ET AL Travel oi Defendants!, ARL - Conspiracy, COC.This teletype in part pertained to travel in the Caribbeanby HOFFMAN, while in residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
' Enclosed for the Bureau are twelve 2! copies of .a LEM concerning this travel. Copies are being providedNew York and San Juan as indicated below for information.
Sufficient copies are also being provided the Bureaufor dissemination to the Legat, Caracas, as well as Legats inLondon and Paris, since it appears certain of those islandsreferred to in enclosed are under the Jurisdiction of Great : Britain and France. ' 2.
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Reference is made to Chicago memorandum October 21,|
1971. under Hoffman's caption, reflecting generally that
Hoffman had obtained permission of the United States Court
of Appeals USCA!, Seventh Circuit, Chicago, for residence
in the United States Virgin Islands USVI! in the period
October 22, 1971, through April, 1972, and that his residence
there would be 1441 Frenchman's Bay, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands.
Attention is also directed to Chicago memorandum H
of August 31, 1971, which set forth descriptive and background
information concerning Hoffman, as well as the reason for the
necessity of his obtaining USCA permission for such travel
and residence outside the continental limits of the United
States. That memorandum reflected Hoffman's intention to
travel to Jamaica in the last week of September, 1971,
and the period November, 1971, through February, 1972,
however, in a motion to the USCA, Chicago, September 7, 1971,
Hoffman amended his travel plans to indicate the USVI
as his place of residence and for the period of the lasweek of September, 1971, and November, 1971, through 1,April, 1972. '
On December 9, 1USCA, Chicago, made available a copy of a no on e
December 7, 1971, with the USCA on behalf of Hoffman. A
copy of this motion is attached to this memorandum, and
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is the property
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is loaned to your
agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside
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it reflects a request for USCA permission to travel from
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the Caribbean as the British Virgin Islands, Antigua,
Dominica and the French overseas departments of Martinique
and Guadaloupe. The purpose of Hoffman's visits to such
islands would be solely for pleasure, sightseeing and
relaxation.
On December 9, 1971, Assistant United States
Attorney AUSA! James Breen, Northern District of Illinois,
Chicago, advised that by order dated December 7, 1971,
the USCA had granted Hoffman permdssion to make the
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MOTION
Appellant Abbott Hoffman moves for the entry of an
order granting him permission to travel to various islands in
the Caribbean from time to time during the period of his resi-
dence in the 6. S. Virgin Ieiende, that ie, through April 1§T2.
_ In support of this motion the appellant ctetee:
1. On September 13, i9?1, be nee granted perrieeien
by this court to travel to the U. 8. Virgin Islands from Ko-
vember 1971 where he planned to reside with his uifc one £33113
through April 1972. In his original motion for permission to
travel to the Caribbean, he indicated to this court that it
might be necessary for him to return to the mainiend nitoi
States to consult with hie attorneys from time to time de"i
such period. On October 18, 1971, this court granted him
permission to advance the date of his departure to oetober 22.
2. He has been residing in the U. S. Virgin Inland:
since the and or October, and he new requests permissicn to cc:
occasional viaits to certain ieiende in the Caribbean near the
Q. $._Virgin Igiends, apeciricelly, the gritioh Virgin Island:
particularly Tortola and Virgin Gorda!,'I§§i3uc, Dominica and
the French oversees departments or Martinique and Guadeloupe.
visits to such islands would be
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ioiands since, at least in some if not all inntancce, he would
be naiiing with friends tron the U. S. Virgin Islands. Re
anticipates that he wouid spend no longer than one day on each
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As stated in referenced airtel previously advised that a defense motion,invo1ving the iallegation that evidence was obtained against the
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defendant b use f illegal wiretapping, was pending beforeb Ju e the court. advised that on 11/23/71, dg
SMITH ruled on this motion in a ten page order. The
opinion of Judge SMITH differentiated between wiretaps used
by the Government for national security reasons, on the
basis of domestic wiretaps and those used on foreign
nationals or foreign countries. The Judge cited a sixth
circuit case, U.S. vs. KEITH.
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states that the Government must at least two days prior to
the start of defendant's trial, make a full disclosure of
all wiretaps used against domestic organizations. The
order further stated that such a disclosure would be limited
only to Defense Counsel of Record.
further advised that the Judge ruled
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returned sealed to the Department of Justice.
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setting any trial date until the SppkegeCourt of the United
States rules on the case U.S. vs. KEITH. advised that the Sp£Irg<'Court granted a writ of certiorari,
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does not expect a trial date to be set unt sometime in
the late Spring of 1972.
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Information with reference to /
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Reference is made to the memorandum of theFederal Bureau of Investigation £FBI! dated November 15,
1971, regarding the activities 0 Hoffman at St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands
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Hoffman residence and the the Hoffman's receive very
few visitors and are seldom away from their residence
during the evening hours,
that Hoffman Ea-en _o!!swagen s!a!!onwagon
apparently been replaced by e new blue Volkswagen sedan
with Virgin Islands license T3lQ1.
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T3lHl was registered to Abbott Hoffman, 14-H1 Frenchman's
Bay Estate, on a navy blue 1971 Volkswagen sedan,
on gygmbgr 17, 19'f3_,
Ramsay Motors, St. Thomas, VirOctober, 1971 Hoffman had purchased a 1969 VolkswagenFastback for $1,500 cash. The vehicle h een urchasedin the name of Frank Edward Crossetti,
that in the weeks following the purchase, o
frequent complaints of this vehicle to various persons
at Ramsay Motors,
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions
of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to youragency; it and its contents are not to be distributedfoutside
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trim Volkswagen sedan, Vehicle Ident ication Number VIN! 111248 H55 in the amount of $2,595, Hoffman
traded in a 1969 Volkswagen fastback for which he received
an allowance of $1,200 and he paid the balance of $1,395
in essh.1 5"
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past was an unidentified white male who came to the
Hoffman residence on a Friday evening,either November 19
or November 26, 1971. This white male was carrying a
battered suitcase and is believed to have stayed at the
residence at least one night. He is described as being
in his late twenties, about five feet ten inches tall,
light brown hair, 180 pounds, round face and wearing
glasses. He was wearing blue Jeans and a colored T-shirt.
On December 10, 1971, Assistant United States
Attorney AUSA! Frederick G. Watts, St. Thomas, Virgin
Islands, advised that ono bout November 24, 1971,he had encountered Petepkgigman phonetic!, attornex
from Washin-ton D. C.,who is known to be an acquaintanceof Hoffan, atts'advised that the description of
Heisman is almost identical with that of the abovevisitor to the Hoffman residence. r
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re subject's travel from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, 1/30/72to NYC, and return to San Juan, Puerto Rico on 2/3/72 Three
copies are enclosed for CG, SJ & HFO
The CG Office did not garnish the identity sf thnwee who received information from Deputy US Marshal
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reviewed the records or Pan Am on 2/3/72.
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in February 1, 1972, Deputy United States Marshal
Chicago, Illinois advised the Chicago Divisbnof Ž'Fe3era1 Bureau of Investigation FBI! that on that
date he had received a letter from Abbott Hoffman dated
January 28, l972,in which letter Hoffman stated that he would
leave his residence at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands for San1'-sauna Fl--4--_O-Q 'I'92J a.-.uuau, rue: vu nJ.uI-J,from where he would depart on January 30,
1972 via Pan American Airways Pan Am!, for New York City
NYC!, to confer with his attorneys. Hoffman further stated
he would leave NYCon February R, 1972 via Pan Am for return
to San Juan, Puerto Rico and his residence at st, Thomas,
Virgin Islands.
Information available to the San Juan Office of the
FBI on January 29,
presently residing
St. Thomas, Virgin
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then travel to NYC1972 disclosed that Abbott Hoffman, who is
at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, would depart
Islands at 12:35 P.m. on January 30, 1972,
611 to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hoffman would
via Pan Am Flight 292 departing San Juan,Puerto Rico at 1:30 p.m. on January 30, 1972, Hoffman also
had return reservations on Pan Am Flight 211 departing NYC at
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On January 30, 1972, Special Agents SAS! of the
FBI observed Abbott Hoffman depart St, Thomas, Virgin Islands
at 12:35 p.m. on Prinair Flight 611 to San Juan, Puerto Rico
and his boarding Pan Am Flight 292 for NYC departing 2:00 p.m.
On February 3, 1972, an SA of the FBI observed
Abbott Hoffman board Pan Am Flight 211 at 8:58 a.m. alone at
John F. Kennedy International Airport JFKIA!, Queens, New
York NY!, This flight departed NY at 9:00 a.m. and was
scheduled to arrive at San Juan, Puerto Rico at 1:30 p,m;,
Ban Juan Time,
On February 3, 1972, the SA of the FBI reviewed the
records of Pan Am at the Pan Am Departure Terminal, JFKIA, Quee
NY, which disclosed that "A. Hoffman" boarded Pan Am Flight 211
en route to San Juan, Puerto Rico departing at 9:00 a.m. on
February 3, 1972. Hoffman utilized Pan Am Ticket Number
0264b526l773, Coupon Number 3, which had been purchased at Pan
Am Ticket Office, St. Thomas, United States Virgin Islands
on January 26, 19?2.
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about the extent of the activity at the residence. NO
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1972. During the week of April 10 through 1H, 1972, several
people had been inquiring as to the Hoffman residence with
reference to the purchase of the Hoffman car which had been
advertised for sale.
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On Eourday, April 15, 1972, the "Daily News", a
daily St. Thomas, Virgin Islands newspaper, carried the
following article;
"Left Moving Into Local Politics: Abbie Hoffman.
by Carter Hague.
A move from the politics of the street towards
electoral process and local control is seen as the trend cf
radical politics by former Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman, in
an interview recently.
Hoffman, long one of the most visible figures on
the American radical scene, has been living quietly in
St. Thomas for about six months. He said he had come here
to have more time with his wife and their eight-months old
child and to work on two books. One book, Dear Abby is a
collection of letters to HOffmg, and the other "The Book of
the Month Club Selection," will be a collection of views of
American society, politics, the mood of the campuses and
assorted subjects including impressions of the Joe Frazier-
Mohammed Ali fight. "I think most people are going to be
surprised by my book," said Hoffman, "It's mellow and re-
conciliatory."
"He expanded on his ideas of political trends in
describing a "liberated zone concept of local control by
radicals. Recalling that radicals had been elected to office
in some college communities, such as Berkely, he said that,
while demonstrations would still play a part in reinforcing
awareness of issues, more traditional methods can help coalitions
of students, the poor and other minorities to achieve power
on a local level.
Hoffman expanded his dicussion of politics to
speculate on the coming election. Saying that he may go to
the Democratic convention with Congresswoman Shirley Chisolm,
he expressed a belief in a strong possibility of Edward
Kennedy ending up as the Democratic candidate. "He's running
a great campaign," said Hoffman, "He's making no mistakes
and letting the others fight it out in the primaries."
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is a strong possibility of a third party emerging. Hoffman
also said that there will be demonstrations at the national
conventions, especially the Republican convention. he said
there are currently several organizers in San Diego planning
demonstrations.
Hoffman, who said he has more than 30 speeches
scheduled in the next few months, noted a change in the moodof American campuses. "They are more cynical, more disillusioned
now," he said, this is behind a lot of the interest in
mysticism and the heroin problem."
"He also discussed narcotics and mentioned that he
had recommended the shaving of heroin pusher's heads as a
form of vigilante action. However, he predicted that legalization
of marijuana would come in five to ten years. "The current
laws have made outlaws of 28,000,000 people, according to
the Nixon commission's report," he said, referring to the
recent estimate of marijuana use by the Presidential Commission
on Marijuana and Drug Abuse.
Hoffman reiterated a recent statement that the Mar y
Sol pop festival in Puerto Rico was an insult to the island.
He said that he had talked to the festival's promoters in an
attempt to find out what kind of arrangements they had made
for sanitation, medical care and other facilities. He
applauded recent laws on the mainland which enable authorities
to prosecute unscrupulous festival promoters. "when you get
several thousands people who have paid from $15 to $20 a piece
for tickets and there's no music and no facilities, it's
fraud. All festivals have been an attempt to recapture the
spirit of Woodstock."
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enemy of the establishment. He claimed that Federal agents had
visited his house several times looking for fugitives and had
kept him under surveillance. He said that when follow Chicago
Seven defendant Jerry Rubin visited him recently, Federal and
local authorities were "all over the place" when he met Rubin at
the airport. Public Safety Commissioner Eldridge waith denied
knowledge of this, however.
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seclusion here was to spend more time with his child, Amerika.
Hoffan, who holds a master's degree in psychology, said that
he greatly enjoyed participating in the raising of the child to
a greater degree than most fathers do. "I wish I had th
to do the research for a post-Spock book on this," he sa
"Hoffman had some unflattering remarks to make
st Thomas. It's a sick place," he charged, "I believe
place which depends on tourists and serving other people
a kind of neurotic character That and the fact that it
actually a colony make it unhealthy." He also stated th
thought the women's liberation movement was more needed
on the mainland.
"Walking through town, Hoffman paused at a boo
and looked in. "They don't sell my last book here," he
referring to Steal This Book," a work that was turned d
30 publishers, in large part because of the title. Befo
leaving to meet his wife, he paused on the sidewalk to ofinal observation on the winds of change that he has, in
part, been responsible for, I talked to some North Viet
in Paris and they pointed out one thing. Our generation
prevented the United States, the most powerful nation in
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connection with "impact seek" at the school. This was
described cs on snnusl progren on cccpus ct union serious
speakers appear,both liberal and conservative.
e movie "The Chicago ConspiracyTrial" we wn pr or to Hoffman's remarks, with the entire
program lasting approximately one hour and twenty ninutes,
attended by some 400 persons, primarily students.
Hoffman's remarks were described as "low key"
in osture, non-inflammatory and with no advocacy of violence.
His speech was principally criticism oi the administration
in Washington, D. 0., regarding continuation of the war in
Vietnam, and the renewed bombing of North Vietnam.
I Regarding Hoffman, he was convicted in United
States District Court, Chicago, in February, 1970, of
violation of the Federal Anti-Riot Statute, and contempt
oi court. He is currently on bond pending appeal of both.
As c condition oi his bond he was ordered by the Seventh
Circuit, United States Court or Appeals, Chicago, to advise
the United States Iarshal, Chicago, of all travel outside
his state of residence New York!.
a 's ottice or a travel advisory for Hofimann
indicating travel to West Virginia on April 21, 1972. Records
oi the Hz.1"shsl's Cffioe do roil%t, however, that Hoffman
had advised, on April 10, 1972, that on April 20, 1972, he
would travel to Virginia, returning to New York City, New
York, on April 21, 1972.
This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions
of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to
your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed
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Re report of SA dated 5/23/72 at -
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d1¥that the trial date for case number 97371,ABBOTT HOWARD I-l0FI-MAN, has not been set. ed
that since the U. S. Supreme Court has rule on t e ixth
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This is the case in which Abbie Hoffman was indicted
on 5/13/71 by a Federal Grand Jury at Washington, D.C., on
antiriot charges. The charges were based on his travel from
Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., to participate in the disruptions
which occurred during the Mayday Demonstrations in Washington, D.C
during the Spring of l9?l, and his interference with a police
officer during the disruptions,
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By memorandum dated 12/3/71 A.W. Gray to E.S. Miller!,
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that some overhearings
organizations and that
ere also advised thatyou were advised that Hoffman raised the electronic surveillance
_ issue by pretrial motion, that the U.S. District Court
of Hoffman were illegal because
resulted from surveillances authorized by the Attorney
under Presidential authority and were directed against
trial date was set for 12/3/71.
on 12/2/71 the court granted a Government
motion for continuance pending a decision by the Supreme Court
in U.S. versus U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan,
Southern Division and Honorable Damon J. Keith, U.S. District
Judge. That case involved the question of the legality of
electronic surveillance of domestic organizations authorized by
the Attorney General under Presidential authority. As you know,
the Supreme Court ruled against the Government in thatycase.ruled
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Mr. Joseph Tafe, Internal Security Division, has now
advised that in view of the above-mentioned Supreme Court decision
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of Investigation.
In the case of United States versus Abbott Howard
Hoffman case number 97371!, the Government moved on July 28,
1972, to dismiss two indictments against Hoffman. Hoffman was
indicted on May 13, 1971, charging him with interstate travel
to organize and participate in a riot, and obstructing a police-
man during a riot.
Judge J. Lewis Smith, United States District Court,
granted the Government's motion and issued an order dismissing
the indictments against Hoffman. This order was signed by
Judge Smith on July 28, 1972.
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5wmwv On 12/6/73, in U.S. District Court, Chicago, HOFFMAN
found guilty of two oi the five contempt cf court
citations remaining against him, arising from the
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co only knowngps the Conspiracy Seven Anti-riot Law!trggl, ig3the§period September 24, 1969 to February 15,
193C. Hqgwaséconvicted of the substantive Anti-riot Law
vioiatiogior which tried, however, in January, 1973, that
charge was dismissed at the request oi the Government,when in N0vember,{1972, the United States Court of Appeals
USCA!, 7th Circuit, Chicago, reversed the conviction and
remanded ior a new trial, ii the Government so desired.
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On February 14, 1970, near the end of the
aboVQm$rial, OFPMAN was cited by trial Judge JULIUS J.HOIIt} for criminal contempt oi court on 23 separate
codh 1 as a result oi his actions and statements in
court'during that trial. He was sentenced to a total of
eight months in the custody of the Attorney General, bond
was denied and on February 14, 1970, he was incarcerated
in Cook County Jail, Chicago.
On February 28, 1970, the USCA, Chicago, issued
an order for the release of HOFFMAN on bond, set in the
amount of $25,600.
On May 11, 1972, the USCA reversed the contempt
convictions oi HOFFMAN and remanded then to the USDC, Chicano,
for a new trail before a judge other than the original trial
Judge.
On November 1, I972, Assistant United States
Attorney AU$A! GARY STARKMAN, Northern District of Illinois
HUI!, Chicago, advised that on October 30, 1972, United
States Supreme Court Chief Justice WARREN BURGER had
announced the appointment of USDC Judge'0WARD T, GIGNOUX,
Portland, Maine, to rehear the contempt convictions of
HOFFMAN, and his fellow defendants from the Conspiracy
Seven trial, likewise cited for contempt by Judge HOFFMAN.
On November 29, 1972, AUSA STARKMAN advised the
Government had determined that in tic rvirfal |"-v»dfm
involving HOFFHAH, sixteen of the original twentythree
contempt citations would be dropped, with only seven to be
prosecuted.
On October 29, 1973, trial of"HOFFlAN and his
associates commenced in USDC, Chicago, on the contempt
charges. On Novanber 3, 1973, after defense arguments for
directed verdicts of acquittal on all counts, Judge GIGNOUX
dismissed the of the seven remaining counts against HOFFMAN.
On December 4, 1973, at the COnC]uSi0n of the
bench trial, Judge GIGNOUX acquitted HOFFMAN on three oi
the five contempt counts and adjudged him guilty on the
remaining two. He set December 6, 1973 for Hcntoncing.
' On December 6, 1973, Judge GIGNOUX discharged and
released HOFFHAN, stating that in the present circumstances
surrounding this retrial, he ielt the guilty finding was
sniiieient punishment and that some iour years nitcr the
original trial, no warrant existed for imposition or a Jail
sentence on HOFFMAN beyond the time already served by him
February 14, 1.970 '-February 28, 1970!,
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