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FD-302 (REV. 11-27-70) ») ; . » t ft FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Oote of transcription 10/10/75 - Mr. ANTONIO ORENDAIN was advised of the official identity of the interviewing Agent and then furnished the following signed statement: "October 10, 1975 "San Juan, Texas "I, Antonio Orendain, residing at Rt. 1, Box 149-B, Alamo, Texas, which is also the headquarters for the United Farm Workers (U.r.W.), Alamo, having been advised by Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation, a ement made by me can be used in court, do hereby make the following free and voluntary statement: "On July 23, 1975, I was in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, in connection with organizing activi- ties by the U.F.W. The U.F.W. had been conducting union organizing activities in the Pecos, Texas, area, since the last week of June, 1975. "On the morning of July 23, 1975, the organizers assembled at approximately 7:30 AM, at 1003 East 3rd Street, Pecos, which was the address used as our headquarters. There were about ten or fifteen of us who met and then proceeded to a location twenty or thirty miles south of Pecos. We drove to an onion field located at the intersection of Farm Road 2448 and an unnumbered road. No Sheriff's Office vehicles were present when we arrived at the fields. We then began our picketing activities. “Three of our organizers then proceedcd due East on the same road for about three miles to a cantaloupe field. - “Simetime later we were notified that sane workers in the cantaloupe field were joining the strike. I drove over to the cantaloupe fd in the U.F.W. van and brought fifteen or twenty people back to the interviewed "_1OA6 75. ot. San Jan, Texas ile # SA 44-2889 This document contains neither recommendations mer conclusions of the FSI It is the property of the FBI and is looned to your agency. Wand is contents ore mot to be disitibuted outside your ogency, 7 211