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CONFIDENTIAL C21TED STATES DEPARTMENT O€ JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to 201 East 69th Street File No. NY¥file 100-162260 August 3, 1972 YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY (YIP), ALSO KNOWN AS YIPPIES INTERNAL SECURITY-REVOLUTIONARY ACTTVTTTLES Bvistvssision The YIP, alss known as Yippies, is a lodsely-knit, anti-establishment, revoisutionary youth organization formed in New York City in January, _. 1968, 7D ‘that the YIP . e a “Phone Freak onvention on July 29, 1972, in the Palmer Room of the Hotel Diplomat, 110 West 43rd Street, New York City (NYC), from approximately 11:00 a.m to :00 p.m. ’ Saw oy a b x * 3 iT] ao 4, a NX aacas.) hea At its peak, about forty young persons were in attendance, approximately one-third of whom were high school teenagers, who gathered to hear several individuals explain various means of exploiting the telephone company. Attention centered on how to make long distance telephone calls without being charged by the telephone company, and various devices were demonstrated and techniques explained. Live. a. SPS byt [Reem rata 9 Ile bao On —lefhie ¥ > an CONFIDENTIAL ; Nei, he Sa 3 We " patemae! a S ) | a | aQ te ern Bens This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It ie the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and ite contents are not to be distributed sutside your agency. ENcLosunE ba vutVUSURE