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NY 100-161445 Ie, ane _— . A 'Freedom’ Available "Me Free Store had a washing machine, two showers, @ record player and a television set, and it served as an ex- change where people could leave old clothes that the hippies could take free. . "twWe let the youngsters have a freedom they were unable to find in other youth centers, 'said HERBERT \MOORE, L. APP 38-year-old director for the Youth Services Agency. . 'They “et drew pictures on the wall, wrote poems. They came in to write books and letters.' 4 ! | "The operations's best-known aide was ABBIE HOFFMAN, a leader of the Yippies Youth International Party. A Human Resources Administration spokesman said Mr, HOFrHAN worked eal 17 days between July 15 and September 20 as a consultant who provided 'insights' at $40 a day." 67) Servi Affency (YSA), a branch of the Human Resources Admin- istration (HR1i), one of New York City's super agencies created by Mayor JOHN LINDSAY, to administrate anti-poverty and wel- —_ fare programs in the City of New York, provided funds des- eribed as NYC tax-levied funds to support "Operation Hippie", an experimental project to determine whether the City of NY o 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 Village of NYC, for a four month period, June 1, 1968, to September 30, 1968, ' to provide basic health items and other needs to young people who had left their homes and who were found to living in un- sanitary and squalid conditions for their own sake as well as ~~ ace for the sake of the City of NY. “a ABBOTT HOFFMAN, a hippie leader, was hired by the YSA as a consultant for twenty one days at $40,00 per day during the Swnmer of 1968, and he worked out of the "Free Store’, 14 Cooper Square, NYC, on the following dates: July 24, 1968 June 29, 1968