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7 ao ey a When of first came to DOP. he former agent said. ‘it was a low-key of- gration, Mostly we did hia’ son” with ather intelligence o agencies. “And then someone sturt- ed noticing (hose kids.” the former agent said. referring to the antiwar activists. “The first actual (physi- cal) = surveillance came when people like Mark Rudd started moving bround,”’ he said. Rudd was it leader in the student dem. onstrations that disrupted Colunbia University for two weeks in the spring of 1968. “Wed go out, take some photographs and _ follow them,” he said. “We had different ID‘s for different jobs. We'd use newspaper ID's. or flash a badge and say we were a reporter for a Magazine — it made things a lot easier.” One of the domestic Oper: ations division's tirst-func- lions was to attempt to infil- irate 15 agents into a radi- cal unit targeted for domes- tic spying, the former CIA said. A second major goal was to “turn somebody around’ — that is, persuade a member of a group to be- come an informer. By l the time he left thr agency in early 1972. the former agent continued, nik unit’s domestic files were huge. “At the enud."* he said, “we were working on anti- war professors and attor- neys. We'd figured out a way to log and map up the whole world.” _ “The goal of our opera- ‘hon.”” he said, ‘was to find yut beforehand what the radicals were going to do -- % was preventative. We just wanted te find out’ whaj they were up to and pass tt on.” ; In that regard, the form- er agent said, ‘‘the profes- sors were great. They want- ed to work with you. “A professor — no matter ow liberal he was — he Bas mad. He didn’t want those kids to tell them ho; ¥ io run his university.” This doctuwent contains neither recommrencations nor conelusions of the FRE, Tt Ge the veanorpty of the THT ord is loscet to vour s-aneys it and its eente-is are nat to be distributed outsics vour arcncy.