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Abbie Hoffman — Part 38

123 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 14, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 122 pages OCR'd
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Abbott Howard Hoffman Abbie Hoffman: He does....it's kind of interesting to visit their place. I was taken on a tour about a month ago and,..I had noticed a change in the character in fact..... gack Anderson: Was this a voluntary tour? Abbie Hoffman: Well, I was persuaded, it was about 2:00 a.m, and I was persuaded in my hall to come and visit there,.....the most...e.the thing that stuck out most in their mind was when we had had a demonstration outside the PBI building, I mean, it's...they really don't care too much about what you do about the rest of the country it's sort of like unit unto themselves and (unintelligible) you know for their own best of interest. Have you noticed a change in them because they were quite rough this time with me, in fact, I had written if you're gonna get arrested you should get arrested by the FBI because they're very nice about it but this time they were quite rough and I thought I had attributed to their inability to catch any of the, you know, young fugitives, young radical fugitives that are on the Ten Most Wanted list and their inability to process people involved in some of the bombings that are going on. Do you feel they're acting differently? Jack Ander | - Well I think they're frustrated. I...There were several federal agents that infiltrated those doings in Washington about 100 did I, according to a figure that was given to me by one of my sources, that they were elmost all narcotics agents because narcotcis agents jiook like you, you know, €l1 this bushy hair and beard and all the works you see. But the FBI as I said all their agents look like Zimbalist and they have a heck of a time infiltrating one of these things. As one of the narcotics agents told me, he said, the FBI...an FEI agent's idea of infiltrating one of these demonstrations to take out their frustrations in other ways now. - 10 «=
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