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Re weet pet wt Fe wine civ 8-33." Continued From Pagel ’ ina memorandum te the special agent in ad “a2. (With an anonymous name with additional phraseology such as ‘A Concemed and F.Bd. Data Rgpeal Covert a u -. + .Loyal Jew,’ or other similar phraseolo-. “a iv mgy.” The letters were mailed Feb. 27, -"L7. 3970, Commenting on the case last week, wt “Mr. Bernstein said, “‘None of these mach- +" “nations has adversely affected my life or a work, but they did cause a good deal of ~., . bitterunpleasantness.” * can Hir43 Bureau documents describing these ac- 3 on¢ tivities have been made available under oles provisions of the Freedom of Information “sa f° wiAct to attorneys far Richard Moore, a4 for- ay charge, “that New York sign this letter — 2€2/) ct mer leader of the Black Panther Party’s © Tes." New York chapter. In March 1973, Mr. ea ‘Moore was convicted of the attempted © mrurder of two police officers, .Thomas > Curry and Nicholas Binetti, who were - “guarding the Riverside Drive residence acc. of District Attorney Frank S. Hogan of . iManhattan. . sp bs ‘PS “3° My, Moore was sentenced to 25 years to Teaver ~nlife. Now 36 years old and still in prison, ros ghe has filed a civil suit against the F.B.L, imer Attorney General John N. Mitchell tand other Federal officials of the era, “t3'4 charging that they framed him for the at- ‘N=: tack on the police officers. The suit was 7] & a CEM: cbs 7 5 Bon, “>=: District Court in Manhattan by Federal ny goudge Mary Johnson Lowe. + - . ~ i . Mr. Moore asks $750,000 In damages, a as sf judgment declaring the activities of the ae a Van injunction tO pr program illegal and ie “eu ¥ La dan injunction to prevent the bureau and 3the New York Police Department from .:.+ Ijharassing him. He offers as an example “~ jot harassment constant transfers to vari- wing 3g 0US New York State prisons. .. 2. :. he a :. This suit is similar to two others, one in zChicago, conceming the killings by Chi- 2: 1cago police of the Panthers Fred Hamp- z-* - gton and Mark Clark, and one in San Fran- -, . a2y7 1cisco.brought by Elmer Pratt, a Black! 2°.) ¢Panther Party official convicted of mur-- .., dering a woman in Santa Monica, in 1972, t Just First Move, Lawyer Says ™ { Elizabeth Fink, .one of Mr. Moore’s at- torneys, said last week that the docu- ments made public in connection with Mr. Moore’s suit were the “‘first produc. tion’ of the counterintelligence pro- ' gram’s memorandums on the New York *’ chapter of the Black Panther Party. “Sr; . ZANF.B.I. press officer said that “‘wedo \ if < not expand upon any material we re. - -_.n, .,fease,”” and that he doubted “very seri- te" Sously” that any bureau official would “i comment on whether the program unts f against “Black Nationalist — Hate Tae ate sf -eformer President Richard M. Nixon, for- - 103 filed in 1975 and is being heard in Federal . Acts Agagst Panther Part. | “—K'Feb. 35, 1970 memorandum to the | - New York field office from Mr. Hoover . gaid the correspondence to Mr, Bern- '“gtein's guests. should outline | “the “B.P.P.’s anti-Semitic - posture.” Mr. * “Hoover, who was to die at the age of Ti on “May 2, 1972, rejected a suggestion from - ‘New York to use “‘the signature of a non- ’ Aaxistent individual alleging afffiliation “ciqith the Jewish Defense League,” lest a *yecipient of the letter try to locate its au- T. , en April 1969, Mr. Hoover directed the “New York office to send what the bureau ~ealied an “Irving” letter aimed at “dthwarting any support for the Panthers ‘Shy the Communist Party. The letter said, Sin part, “I doz’t have to prove ta you that 3 ene Black Panthers are a Maoist anti-Se-: dmitic gang. Don’t they know which side Veheir bread is buttered on?’” 74 &. “Irving,” according to the F.B.1. docu-} ‘iments, was ‘a fictitious person” de-; ““seribed as “a disgruntied Jewish mem- <ber of the Communist Party, United . “States of America.” Mr, Hoover said the: dntrying” letter should be sent toa person, ‘ whose name was deleted, who had used . information provided by the bureau to write articles for a publication whose name was deleted. The alee “aa oover said, ‘have proven embarrassin, aed injurious’’ tothe Communist Party. - ‘After Angela Davis was arrested in Oc- tober 1970 on charges of murder, kidnap- ping and criminal conspiracy, the bu- reau’s New York and Chicago offices sent letters to Ebony Magazine and The Vil- “Jage Voice. Signed by “A Friend of Sister | * iAngela’”’ and “Concerned Brother,’? the Yetters said that Huey Newton, Supreme ‘Commander of the Black Panther Party, was “the ‘fingerman’ ’* who had been re- ‘sponsible for Miss Davis’ capture. =" -«|: sis “ploy,” the New York field office ivrote, “might result in disruption in the re ee ee eed col