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. CONF RPENTIAL . } . . Grup stares DEPARTMENT or dus SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR CLASSIFICATION ACTION . FEDERAL BUREAU OF\INVESTIGATION Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania February 20, 1970 ALL IMERD=arIAN PONTANED me Heer. “mace WHERE Seca wrt nel POLITICAL REPRESSION CONFERENCE AT CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY (C-MU) AND UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (UP), PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, JANUARY 17, 1970 £7D> ee: an all- day Political Repression Conference (PRC) would be held on January 17, 1970, at C-MU and the UP, Pittsburgh, Pa., sponsored by student groups from both campuses and New Left Movement organizations in the Pittsburgh area. hat captioned conference — —_ = 3 635 a aaace ng of various films on the New Left Movement; however, the actual conference did not start until about 1:00 PM at C-NU and was discontinued at that University about 5:20 PM, The conference, which was attended by approximately 1,000 persons, was orderly and there were no incidents connected with the conference, Conference activities consisted of films and speeches concerning Black Panthers, police power, prisons, and political repression, hat at about 2:05 Pi, Ja ’ ’ e main program ot the PRC at C-¥U began with a speech by Gilbert Venable, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, His main theme was the legality of political repression in the magistrate and criminal courts in Allegheny County. He stated This document contains neither recommendations na conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; 4t and its contents are not to be