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TO "SUBJECT: — ” LZ Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Pian Memorandum DIRECTOR, FBI (100-449923) DATE: (22/74 AC, NEW YORK (100-161445 co ornate ge wa A BBOTT HOWARD HOFFMAN ka NS (KEY A VIST " SN So fein CTI seo) ve Sie 0O:NY) Enclosed for the Bureau is one copy of a book written by the subject entitled "Steal This Book. The following comments are made concerning the enclosure: "Steal This Book" distributed by Grove Press ~ under its Pirate Editions, New York City, authored by >) uy eer HOFFMAN, describes itself as " A handbook of survival Je warfare for the citizens of the Woodstock Nation" and proudly notes the manuscript was rejected by some thirty publishers. Finally foisted on the reading public by Grove Press, "Steal This Book" amounts to nothing more than a rehash of HOFFMAN'S revolutionary concepts previously revealed in his books “Revolution For The Hell of It" and the ‘Woodstock Nation." His first work ~ with the patently obscene title re- lating to the "System" ~ is also represented to some degree. Basically, "Steal This Book! is intended ( in addition to making money for its author) as a "manuel" for the budding revolutionary and, as such, sets forth in detail ways and means for the commission of petty crime from simple shoplifting and credit card theft to the construction of Molotov cocktails and bombs. The reader is taken through the entire range of revolutionary philosophy which, in HOFFMAN'S case, takes some real hard twists and turns. For example, in the chapter on stealing food the author instructs his followers to sneak into a restaurant and finish the scraps left on a plate by some hasty diner. This alone could terminate the careers of or oD YY FDL Eo awa ca 4a + - New yor , SUN 24 1974 a —