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‘y UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Hei Place Refer Chicago, Illinois 176-28 December 18, 1968 iw > ABBOTT H, HOFFMAN Reference ig made to letter dated December 9, 1968, 7 to the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), from = Fred M. Vinson, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, titled Democratic National Convention, Antiriot Laws, This letter referred to a report released by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence on December 1, 1968, "Describing the Yippies' tactics, the report said: ‘This theatrical concept was a primary ingredient of their approach, The audience would be the American public, the means of communication would be the mass media, manipulated to create distorted images of themselves. The stage would be the streets and the message would be a demonstration of disrespect, irreverence and ridicule, ‘'* b Team, Nat mmis n on e Causes an revention of = of Paragraph 5 of referenced letter stated as follows: * Violence, Chicago, Illinois, advised on December 13, 1968, oy that the above paragraph was written by the staff and was not a direct quote from Hoffman. All INCA AA ATIATC AAT A Ich FALL fied SVE wee TAL VLU pipwccriae OEP egyey rie ols VAAAaZ Fol _D Y Bye This document containg neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents ane om + @¢n ta Atatuth.it¢ad vn. taiAan soe re ah ee ars GOL tO OS GIStTrasutsa Guisias Four ageacy; EXCLOSUpp)