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on ae eee unikey:)rares DEPARTMENT OF onde pO PEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Atlanta, Georgia November 5, 1969 DEMONSTRATION AT PORT NC PHERSON, a ATIANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 25s 1969, AT : . 11:30 A.M., SPONSORED BY THE UNITED FARM a WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, PROTESTING INCREASED PURCHASE OF GRAPES BY DEFENSE DEPARTMENT | ,An articie appearing in the October oT, 1969, issue of "The Great Speckled Bird", an Atlanta weekly “New Left newspaper, distributed October 24, 1969, indicated that the United Parm Workers Organizing Committee planned to eet up a picket lire outside the Lee Street entrance of Fert McFnerscn, Atlanta, Georgia, at 11:30 a.m. on Octcter 25, 1969, te pretest the “stepped-up government buying cf seab grapes .* 7 * Tne article further stated that, as the grape boycctt spread, grape growers lost markets and the grapes piled up until the Pertagon came to the aid of “agribusiness” with a 359 per cent incr:ase of grape shipments to American acidiers in Vietnam. The article also stated that DARY OTSON, United Farm Workers (UFW) representative in Atlanta, had called for a massive turnout at the October 25, 1969, . | ~ demcustration from sympathetic groups and individuals, : qj a At approximately 11:45 a.m. on October 25, 1969, Special Agents of the Federel Bureau of Investigation officers of the Atlanta Police Department, and Speci ai Agents of the lllth Military Intelligence Group, Fort McPherson, Gecrgia, observed approximately nine demonstrators gather in front of the main gate at the Iee Street entrance — to Fort McPherscn. The demonstrators proceeded to march back and forth in front of the gate ee out leaflets to motcrists entering the leaving the Fort. a 3 This document contains neither recommer: x Ee or con- a gta 8 clusicns of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and ~~ e is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distrituted cutside your agency. ENCLOSURE _ + deimeateiinnetie A inee FeLi caioeain eee ie gy ’ + ty Bs a ee ee — A ee ee pra it