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Abbie Hoffman — Part 1
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CON" TDENTIAL
Demonstrat s Starting September
29,. 1968, Protesting the House -.
Un-Americar ‘ctivities Committee €}
(HUAC) Hear_.gs in Washington, ~
D.C. on the Chicago Disturbances
Internal Security - Miscellaneous
"The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
said that they, the National Lawyers Guild and the
Law Center for Constitutional Rights were providing
legal representation for the people who have been sub-
poenaed -- David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman,
Jerry Rubin and Rennie Davis who received his subpoena
todays
"Abbie Hoffman, at a press conference this after-
noon annouhced plans for a week of demonstrations next
week in Washington, D.C. against HUAC and he called upon
the F.B.I. to stop harassing hin.
“Last night, the Students for a Democratie Society
also announced plans for a week of demonstrations against
HUsC starting Sunday, September 29 with a 'be-in' at
the 'P' Street Beach and a rally at George Washington
University on Tuesday night, October 1 at which time
the five persons who have been subpoenaed and their
lawyers (Michael Kennedy and Henry Di Suvero of the
National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; William
Kunstler of the Law Center for Constitutional Rights;
and Gerald Lefcourt of the National Lawyers Guild) will
Speak.
"NECLC also said that their office had been con-
tacted by numerous people who were being harassed by
the F.B.I. Agents telephone or visit people in the
middle of the night.: Many of the agents have been mis-
leading people by representing that they are investiga-
ting complaints of police brutality when in fact, NECLC
Said, they are ‘looking for evidence to bring prosecutions
under the anti-riot provisions of the 1967 Civil Rights
Act which provides that anyone who traveis in interstate
commerce or who uses the mails with intent to ‘incite
a riot or to organize, promote, encourage or carry on
a riot shall be fined $10,000 or imprisoned for not
more than five years.'"
“3° CONFIDENXIAL
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