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- STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING “COMMITTEE PAVRdL Uratinid Von ; A representative of the Atlanta Police Department advised that the majority of those picketing on August 18, 1966, were known to him as members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. , ° — War Crimes Tribunal," Paris, France, November, 1966 A spokesman for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, London, England, announced that Bertrand Russell plans to hold a ‘war crimes tribunal" in Paris, in , - November, 1966, to "sndict" President Johnson “and other war criminals responsible for American atrocities in Vietnam." | According to the spokesman, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael, will go to North Vietnam as part of the : international investigating committee to gather evidence i for presentation to the "tribunal." It is not known how many Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee members will go to North Vietnam. However, in joining the "tribunal," Carmichael allegedly stressed that the Student Nonviolent . i Coordinating Committee itself was endorsing the trial and i Said discussions are underway in the United States and elsewhere to mobilize support, funds and a world-wide petition calling for the indictment of “war criminals." Meeting with Leader of the Nation of Islam Stokely Carmichael, through Nation of Islam officials in Atlanta, Georgia, will be invited to the Nation of Islam rally to be held on August 28, 1966, at the International Amphitheater, Chicago, Illinois. Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, has approved extending this invitation to Carmichael.. The Nation of Islam is an all-Negro semi- religious organization which advocates a doctrine of violent hatred of the United States Government and the white race. It is noted Muhammad recently directed letters to civil rights leaders for the purpose of calling a “summit conference."' The response of the various civil rights leaders to Muhammad's invitation was completely negative with the exception of Stokely Carmichael. . CONFIYENTIAL