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CP.IONAL FORM NO. 10 500-106 GSA GEN. REG.NO.27 UNITED STATES GC RNMENT DeLocch I - Mr. Dezoach Mohr Bishop lemorandum 1 - Mr. Bishop Casper Callchan 1 - Mr. W.C. Sullivan Conrad Felt Gale TO :Mr. W. C. Sullivan DATE: 1/31/68 an 1 - Mr. C.D. Brenna. FROM :C. D. Brennan ele.Room I - Mr. Thompson Holmes Gandy SUBJECT/TRAVEL OF TWO INDIVIDUALS TO NORTH VIETNAM, 1/31/68, TO CONTACT UNITED STATES PRISONERS OF WAR INFORMATION CONCERNING (INTERNAL SECURITY) Howar PURPOSE : To recommend that information regarding plans of two individuals active in the antiwar movement to travel to North Vietnam today be disseminated by teletype to the Wnite House, State Department, Central Intelligence Agency, and military intelligence agencies. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED y HEREIN ISUNCLASSIFIED CoP 5D BACKGROUND : During the evening of 1/30/68 we received infor- mation from the Office of Naval Intelligence indicating that Thomas Hayden, a prominent New Left activist who recently traveled to North Vietnam and was involved in negotiations with the North Vietnamese for the release of three U.S. prisoners of war, has advised the wife of a Navy prisoner of war that David Dellinger, a member of a recently formed committee of antiwar leaders working for release of prisoners of war, is sending a Catholic priest and a proiessor.to. North Vietnam today to. atcempt to. contact. U.S.. prisoners. of identified, but Bureau files indicate that Monsignor Charles o. Rice, a Catholic priest from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; D and Staughton Lynd, Assistant Proiessor of History at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois; both of whom are outspoken critics of U.S. policy in Vietnam, are also members oi the committee. Recent newspaper publicity has indicated that the North Vietnamese will release three additional it prisorers of war in the. near future and it is quite possible /0rJ Iorth Vietnam will attempt to negotiate the release of these prisorers. /00- 360217- RIGINAL FILED IN Euclosure FEB 8 896L C.T:jes (6) CONTINUED OVER 547FEB14 1968 INT. SEG