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_ peer According to a news release dated August 16, 1966, a . DATE.2Jaloo__ BYseuat/eP Due to the interest of the President in the activities of Stokely Carmichael and his organization, we have prepared a summary setting forth the current and planned future activity in this matter. A copy of the summary is attached for ready reference. Atlanta teletype of August 17, 1966, advised that approximately seventeen Negroes picketed the Twelfth Corps Headquarters, United States Arny, 699 Ponce De Leone Avenue, Northwest, Atlanta, Georgia, on August 17, 1966. These pickets carried signs and distributed a leaflet urging Negroes not to support or participate in the war in Vietnam. According to a representative of the Atlanta Police Department, the pickets arrived in a SNCC bus and most of them were known to him as members of SNCC. ; Atlanta teletype of August 18, 1966, advised that approximately twenty-seven Negroes again picketed the Twelfth Corps Headquarters. A group of inductees were urged by the pickets not to enter the building and one picket attempted to physically delay entry of one of the inductees. Pickets attexptsd te force their way into the building and as a result, approximately twelve pickets were arrested by the Atlanta Police Department. According to a representative of the Atlanta Police Department, the majority of these picketing on August 18, 1966, were known to him as members of SNCC, spokesman for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, London, England, announced Bertrand Russell plans to hold a “war crimes tribunal" 4n Paris in Novenber to “indict” President Johnson and “other war criminals responsible for Amorican atrocities in Vietnam 06-146 Xo - Enclosure NOT RECORDED oe Pre wep 199 AUG 23 1966 CONTINUED - OVER. . fy CL a _ oO Cf fos ew . foe ”. a. [Oe ORIGINAL FILED IY int irae es _ { \ ° 1 ~ Mr. Deloach 1. Me) Ant tiean 1 - Mr. Baumgardner Mr. W. C. Sullivan 8/19/66 | | to ie yell F. J. Baumgardner — S “hb | of VC STUDENT NONVIOLENT ITANGEATIO a x TING COMMITTEE (SNCC) ALL IAF OSSEATION CONTAINED INTERNAL SECURITY - (SNCC) HERERS IS RULAge SEO cane gree Ce RON A SETI SM NII OI