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am. Memorandum for Mr, W. C, Sullivan BOOK REVIEW “REVOLUTION FOR THE HELL OF IT" BY ABBIE HOFFMAN (ALIAS "FREE") 100 -449923 . Page 9: “Paul Krassner, who was watching television, shouted that Stokely had just returned and had been grabbed by the FBI." This sentence was thrown into the middle of Hoffman's description of an LSD party, , Page 122; Hoffman's comment on the Chicago demonstrations during the Democratic National Convention in August, 1968: "Chicago was, as I have stated before, a Perfect Mess, In a Perfect Mess everyone gets what he wants, In a Perfect Mess only the System suffers, The road into Chicago begins and ends in your own head, Daley and the FBI will enter by finding a conspiracy." He then sets forth other well known names and his opinion of how they will relate to the "Perfect Mess," Page 206; Captioned book contains two pages of acknowledgements to "friends,"" Many of the names listed are in argot or appear to be take-offs on names of well known persons, Included is "J, Edgar Freako," Page 209: Referring to his arrest by police on September 17, 1968, as he stepped from an airplane in Chicago: "When bail was produced on this charge, I was then arrested by the FBI and charged with ‘crimes aboard an aircraft', The FBI is the only agency in the country that arrests you and makes it seem like they are doing you a favor," There then follows his version of the interview with FBI Agents, which contains nothing derogatory concerning this Bureau, Book Review Captioned book, published in November, 1968, is written in the first person, is filled with extreme obscenity, and covers Hoffman's impressions of the March on the Pentagon in October, 1967, and the demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, 1968. In the first paragraph of the book, Hoffman states: "The other day I took some LSD somewhere in the Florida Keys, where I've come to try to write a book," He later refers to the book as "a book of garbage," with which statement it would be difficd1lt to disagree, but it is not difficult to believe that a great portion of it was written while Hoffman was under the influence of LSD, He makes constant reference to being "stoned," “smashed,” and “going on LSD trips," -3-