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ae mn ' . FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59) ( : ; os ( - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Copy to: q 4 Report of: (A) Office: New York, New York Dote: 185 , Field Office File #: 176-6 Bureau File &: Title: ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN ALL INFORMATION: CONTAINED HERFIN IS UNCLASSIFIE Character " ANTIRIOT LAWS” DATE aif BY gern Synopsis: ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN interviewed by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, regarding his participation in the Chicago disorders. HOFFMAN advised that he is a member of the Youth International Party (YIP) and that he was in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic Convention in August, 1963. HOFFMAN advised that he visited Chicago in March, 1968, and filed an application for a permit, with others, with the Chicago Parks Commission to allow demonstrators to utilize Lincoln Park, later changed to Grant Pafk, for their "thing" during the convention period. He said the application was not acted upon. HOFFMAN disclaimed any responsibility for any disorders at Chicago, Illinois, and stated that he was arrested and held for thirteen hours the day before the major trouble in Grant Park and near the Hilton Hotel and that he did not participate in these disprders. HOFFMAN claimed that he stayed at the Chicago home of a friend, whom he declined to identify, and was out of the parks each night. HOFFMAN stated that YIP issued a calendar of events for the _ Chicago Convention period; that he helpéd to prepare this program and that it is a public record of all his own and all YIP plans, and that no disorders were scheduled or even suggested. HOFFMAN stated that YIP has no membership, no dues, no membership list, and no officers. HOFFMAN stated that neither he nor any YIPS with whom he is acquainted in New York City, or elsewhere, made any plans to cause any disorders in Chicago nor -did they discuss any such ideas, nor did they bring any weapons or similar items to Chicago to protect themselves from attack or use in attack. , -RUC- DETAILS: Thia document contains neltther recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It ia the property of the FB! and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.