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yo. re eRe te kt te ee ce. aN ee te a eee a SA ye Sa eee Cae. “ae www en ed a ard mmr ake oe te ee Ge es ee en OCU on Geen UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSYICE . FEDLKAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New York, New York In Reply, Please Refer to December 5, 1968 Fiie No. . Bufile 100-449922 “¥fije 100-161545 . Abbott Howard Hoffman Security Matter - Anarchist Y Be pap BRO St + ele ne ae yee \£ . y <a ~~ ervice Agency CYSA), a branch of the Human Resources Administration (HRA), one of New York City's super agencies _ created by Mayor John Lindsay, to administrate anti-poverty end welfare prograns in the City of New York, provided funds- _aescribed as New York City tax-levied funds to support. "Operation Hippie", en experimental project to determine whether the City of New York could operate a program to help alienated young people. As part of this experimental project, the YSA opened a "Free Store" at 14 Cooper Square in the East Vil- lage of New York City, for a four month period, June 1, 196& to September 30, 1968, to provide basic health items and other needs to young people who hed left their homes and who ne were found to be living in unsanitary and squalid conditions — for their own sake as well as for the sake of the City of New York. 2, ‘Abbott Hoffman, a hippie leader, was hired by the Hage; YSA as a consultant for twenty one days at $40.00 per day Na during the summer of 1968, and he worked out of the "Free -. 8 Store", 14 Cooper Square, New York City, on the following — Cates: This cGocument contains neither lo: recommendations nor conclusions —-"3 of the FBI. It is the property _8 of the FBI and is loaned to your up agency; it and its contents are =~ not to be distributed outside your egency. we AML ae tq ene © AEGIS