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Fy Bi I? Ss Files Reveal Covert Acts’ _ Against the Black Panther Party! 4 ws, , By, GERALD FRASER The Federal Bureau of Investigation | by law-enforcement authorities or t by one tried to use black journalists, anonymous | another in internal feuds.J. Edgar Hoov- j. telephone calls and forged letters to dis- | er, the late Director of the bureau, said of rupt the New York chapter of the Black | the Panthers in this pericd in a memoran- Panther Party in the late 1960's and early | dum urging his San Francisco bureau to 1970's, according to documents from the be more active against them, ‘‘All infor- agency’s files. mation developed to date, leads to the ob- These documents concentrate on the vious conclusion that this group is dedi- New York office, but the buréau’s coun-| cated to the principle of violent over- terintelligence program ranged across | throw and will go to any length to further the nation. In this period of the bureau’s | this aim.’ | activities, 19 Black Panthers were killed| Some letters were ‘meant to counter : upport for the Panthers among Jews. In’ j January 1970 Mr. Hoover authorized . agents in New York to send fetters.criti- ' cal of the group to guests at a Black Pan- ther fund-raising party at the hoitie ‘of Leonard Bernstein, the composer . and. “3 conductor. - . “Tt is recommended,” said Mr. Hoover Continued on Page 15, Column i