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BS 100-35505 ZINN is a familiar and prominent anti-war activist who has participated in and spoken at numerous anti-war rallies in the Boston area since accepting a position as a professor at Boston University in 1964, He has piven active support to the SDS, PLP, and BPP in the past. Oe en In 1968, he went to Hanoi as a répresentaive of the !'Peace Movement* e é United States prisoners. He is the author of "The New Abolitionists--Vietnam," "Disobedience and Democracy," and "Logic of Withdrawal" and is a chief critic of the Federal Government and the war in Vietnam, An_ admitted CP member from about 1948 to mid 1953 in the Manhattan--Brooklyn area, New York City, said he attended numerous CP meetings between 1949 and the summer . of 1953 with ZINN. In an interview with Special Agents of the FBI on 11/6/53, ZINN advised he was not a CP member; ‘that he was in his opinion a “liberal." On 7/15/48, ZINN was a fraternal delegate from the Sixth Assembly District, Kings County, CP to the New York State convention of the CP, In August, 1970, subject requested and received from prison authorities at Danbury Federal Prison, Danbury, Connecticut, permission to visit DANIEL BERRIGAN and also, during August, 1970, requested permission to visit with DANIEL BERRIGAN and his brother, PHILIP BERRIGAN, at the same Federal prison. It is recommended that subject be included in ADEX, Category III, because he has participated in activities of revolutionary organizations within the last five years as evidenced by overt acts and statements established through reliable informants, The next report or LHM will be received by the Bureau by 5/12/73, 2.