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NIS INFORMATION REPORT | 03-27-70 CONTHENTIAL CODE CONTROL STATUS DATE 14HQ 03-27-70N14062 DiStrisutIOn MADE AT MADE BY ORIGIN sUPpLeMEnTAE DATA Ocial security nO MILiTARY SERVICE NO. BIRTH (DATE) {GPC} (PlacE) IT1E S/BERRIGAN, PHILIP (REV.) (U) 3. () At 8:00 p.m., 24 March 1970 at a "Communion Service" at the Church of the Crossroads castigated American society as "undescribably bad." "Ecologically," he said, "we may have a l0-year limit on this society. .It's going nowhere,: A he was pleased to accept the invitation to come to Hawaii because he was "moved" by the 33-day Church of the Crossroads episode of August-September 196'9 that involved the sheltering of 37 American servicemen who had absented themselves without authority from their units. Although he characterized himself as an advocate of nonvioience, BERRIGAN stated that he had "no real quarrel" with Aanao pue yoon mnn ut sBugpginq Jo Bunqnoq ayn log dnqnsuodaan dnan oun asoy? Iarge U.s. cities. "They have been scrupulously careful about human life," he 4. () At Andrews Outdoor Theatre at 12:45 p.m. on 25 March. BERRiGAN was introduced to an audience of approximately I50 students by b6 per NCIS THE REsIsTANcE, Hawaii's most mjlitant and aggressive anti-grart wb7C per NCIS anti-Vietnam war organization (attachment (2))- recounted BERRIGAN's many instances of involvement in protest activity and cited his religious vocation and theological training in an effort to establish credence and acceptability for his comments. Recounting the atrocities committed at Auschwitz, and citing rationalizations employed at the war crimes trials in defense of these atrocities, been brought to public attention. He stated that the great American crime is. not "ying, pillaging, murdering or directing the most advanced technology in the world to murder for you. It's getting caught at it." BERRlGAN characterized the role of the U.s. in the Vietnam war as "automated massacre,". stating "Policy and practice aim simply and ruthlessly at this: .The extermination of a people and the crushing of a civilization." Said BERRiGAN, "ls this substantially different from the policy that produced the excesses of Auschwitz? No!, men still man the controls of a supersonic bomber, still fix the bombsight, still drop the napalm and the antipersonnel bombs, still puli the lanyard of a 155 mm horwitzer, declared that there is."a moral and political duty to dissent, rebel, and revolutionize, and to recapture power by taking responsibility for the victims of American policy." He clearly implied that any action designed to ekpose, eliminate or destroy the effectiveness of such a system would be 'justified. Jx BErRiGAN also appeared at Spalding Hall on the University campus'at 1 5. {U) ASSIFICATION CONPIDENHAC WARNING. CONE ED ENT IAL THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE PAGE HERETO. CONTENTS MAY NOT BE DISCLOSED TO THE PARTY(S) CONCERNED WITHOUT SPECIFIC NER 2 AUTHORIZATION FROM THE NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY NAVAL INTELLIGENCE-NAVAL INVESTIGATIVE SERVICE