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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dphave taken those critical steps rather than go along with the fighting. It is not a significant number yet, but SCHEER believes it is growing. "We have to figure out whether the United States is Rome on the rise or Rome in decay and hopefully America's empire is on the verge of cracking up."When asked if he could make a generalization about the American housewife and American married life, SCHEER stated, "The average American is drunk most of the time." SCHEER explained that the average American has a couple of drinks before starting home and several more when he arrives at home. The cocktail hour is all about getting "yourself numb enough that you can take your wife and kids and then you usually fall asleep in front of the television."SF T-93, 3/6/68March 1, 1968The "Albion Pleiad," Albion College weekly newspaper, Albion, Michigan, in its issue of March 1, 1968, carried an article headlined, "SCHEER Rips NORRIS, College." The article stated SCHEER was scheduled to speak on the "relevance of academe in response to cultural needs," but abandoned this topic and instead dissected the speech given by Albion College President LOUIS W. NORRIS to freshmen at this school in the fall of 1967. SCHEER said Dr. NORRIS' speech stressed the importance of vicarious learning and the central role of the "great conversation." SCHEER said the "great conversation is a bore." SCHEER stated that white middle class Americans want to make a revolution without doing anything revolutionary. SCHEER said Dr. NORRIS stated in his speech "hippies" did not belong on Albion's campus. SCHEER replied to this "with these ideas he shouldn't be president of a university, and I wouldn't have to make these statements if he hadn't given such a speech to the freshmen." He said that America can no longer engage in foreign aggression in the guise of extending freedom." SCHEER concluded his speech by stating that to alleviate these crises America should dismantle the defense apparatus, turn to a peace economy and get out of Vietnam.One of the critics of SCHEER's speech was quoted in this article as saying, "Some of what he said was admirable, but he was so irrational and so boorish and had excruciating bad taste."![image: a stamp that says secret, it has number 1346 on the left and 104 underneath the stamp]Copy........of........CopiesPage 104 of 134 PagesNW 88613 Docld:34517445Page 105
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dpApril 3, 1968ROBERT SCHEER was one of many persons who was present and spoke at the University of California, Irvine, California (UCI), on April 3, 1968, when an anti-Vietnam program was held. No publicity was afforded this activity in the local metropolitan newspapers and the "Anthill", campus newspaper, published at UCI, did not publish any of the speeches delivered nor any quotes taken out of context, but merely contained an outline of the program.SF T-94, 10/16/68April 17, 1968"Iowa State Daily," which is a student newspaper published at Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa, carried an article in its issue of April 17, 1968, headlined, "'Ramparts' Editor SCHEER Keynotes 'Dissent' Series." This article stated that ROBERT SCHEER, editor of "Ramparts" Magazine, would speak on "dissent, revolution and the Democratic process" on April 17, 1968, in the Great Hall, Memorial Union, ISU, as part of a series of talks sponsored by the National Affairs Institute (NAI). The article included background information to the effect that ROBERT SCHEER received a B.A. Degree in Economics and Political Science from the City College of New York, and then served as a Maxwell Fellow in Public Administration at Syracuse University.The "Ames Daily Tribune," Ames, Iowa newspaper, issue of April 18, 1968, carried a news article headlined, "ISU Dissenters Knock System." This article reported that ROBERT SCHEER was the first speaker at ISU's "dissent" series and spoke April 17, 1968. The article reported that SCHEER stated America did not need BOBBY KENNEDY or GENE MC CARTHY, but needed a whole new political ideology. SCHEER stated "if liberals can't come up with some alternative to the prevailing political thought, the right wing is likely to do it instead." SCHEER said "our basic ideologies are going to have to be challenged if we are going to face and solve our problems." He called particularly for critical examination of the philosophies on which the United States foreign policy is based, the attitudes behind its welfare program, and the whole basis of its political system. He stated this nation is ripe for political change and the right wing has frightening ability to come up with ideological alternatives.
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SF 100-46832WEH/dpApril 23, 1968"The Spectrum," weekly newspaper of the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, in its issue of April 23, 1968, carried an article announcing that a series of talks by new leftists on the central issues of the day, would begin April 23, 1968. ROBERT SCHEER was listed as one of the speakers, noting that he had spoken at the University in 1967, and was very well received."The Spectrum" did not carry a follow up news story concerning SCHEER's talk, and there was no reference to SCHEER'S plans in the Buffalo, New York, area in the local daily papers.May 11, 1968The "Bozeman Daily Chronicle," newspaper, Bozeman, Montana, issue of May 12, 1968, carried an article relating to the speech of ROBERT SCHEER at Montana State University, May 11, 1968. The portion of the article relating to ROBERT SCHEER reads as follows:"Robert Scheer, 31-year-old editor of the New Left Ramparts Magazine, who flew here directly from Havana, Cuba, said our simplistic reason for intervention in Vietnam was the 'myth of the international communist conspiracy' also called the 'Devil Theory.' The Devil Theory has dis. integrated, whether our state department will admit it or not, he said."'This reality plavs havoc with the most cherished tenant of our foreign policy,' he said. Scheer cited the squabbling between Russia and Red China, and more recently between Czechoslovakia and Russia as evidence of the disintegration of the international con- spiracy. He said that our foreign policy should be humanistic rather than jingoistic. Americanization of the rest of the world should not be our goal, he added."Scheer said the United States should swallow its pride and get out of Vietnam. He said it might be good for the U.S. to lose a little face in Vietnam. Maybe it would be healthy for us to admit we made a mistake, that we can be wrong.
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dp"The Exponent", student newspaper, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, issue of May 17, 1968, carried a news article bearing the headline, "Ramparts Editor - War is not U.S. vs Commies." This article stated that a Vietnam symposium was held on Saturday, May 11, 1968, during which ROBERT SCHEER stated no peace or negotiations are possible unless the United States is willing to admit that the war in Vietnam is not primarily a struggle between communism and democracy." SCHEER reportedly alleged that the state department's monolithic concept of communism is the main reason that we are in that war. SCHEER stated "that the Viet Minh forerunner to the Viet Cong was a serious struggle for independence and fought the French who they considered as foreign aggressors. Both Diem and Ky, South Vietnamese leaders, worked for the French and thus the Viet Cong consider them traitors to their people. Since the U.S. supports Ky and formerly supported Diem, it was natural for the Viet Cong to fight against the U.S." SCHEER said "the U.S. should settle for something along the line of the 1954 Geneva accords to get out of Vietnam." SCHEER added that he thought it would be good for the U.S. to lose face because we have become too arrogant.Television, June 3, 1968The "Berkeley Daily Gazette" newspaper issue of June 4, 1968, carried an article by MIKE CULBERT, Executive Editor, which related that KTVU, Channel 2, Oakland, California, taped a television show June 3, 1968, for viewing on that station at 10:30 p.m., June 5, 1968, in which PAT MICHAELS, host, questioned ROBERT SCHEER, "A new left leader and editor of 'Ramparts' magazine" and SCOTT STANLEY, JR., "Editor of 'American Opinion' magazine, major organ of the John Birch Society." The article stated that a surprise questioner from the audience during this show was DAVID GUMAER, a 29 year old Chicagoan who infiltrated the Du Bois Clubs of America for the Chicago Police Intelligence Division and served on the registration committee of the National Convention for New Politics, which was held in Chicago, Illinois, during Labor Day weekend of 1967. The article stated GUMAER also testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in Executive Session in December, 1967. GUMAER stated ROBERT SCHEER was "completely surrounded by communists" at the New Politics Convention. SCHEER is reported as replying, "If you're saying I'm a communist, go ahead and say it, and I'll sue." SCHEER called GUMAER a "fink". SCHEER said he is not a communist and the communists he has known are "too conservative" for him.
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SF 100-46832WEH/dp# SECRETThis newspaper account of the PAT MICHAEL's television show on KTVU, Channel 2, was verified by former SA MARVIN BUCHANAN, 2150 Franklin Street, Oakland, California, on June 19, 1968.August 19, 1968The agenda for the National Student Association (NSA) Convention which was held at Kansas State University (KSU), Manhattan, Kansas, August 17-26, 1968, stated that there was scheduled a "discussion of the movement for social change in America on both a theoretical and a practical level," conducted by four individuals including ROBERT SCHEER.An article in the August 21, 1968, issue of the "Kansas City Star" newspaper stated that TOM HAYDEN, former President of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and ROBERT SCHEER, editor of "Ramparts" Magazine, had both spoken at the NSA Convention. In this regard, the article stated "despite the militancy of their demands and aggressiveness or their charges of the JOHNSON-HUMPHREY Administration, at no time has HAYDEN or SCHEER called explicitly for violence. The printed material appearing here maintains the same guarded stance."An article in the "Manhattan Mercury" newspaper, Manhattan, Kansas, issue of August 20, 1968, stated, "In an open forum, ROBERT SCHEER, editor of 'Ramparts' Magazine, said 'If students don't act at the (Democratic National) Convention, they must decide what their reaction is going to be when all their efforts for EUGENE MC CARTHY are swallowed up by a HUMPHREY machine. If the American people are not left with a vote against the war in Vietnam after this Convention, all the work of the students and middle class, all the efforts in the primaries, all the fund-raising will have been in vain and the Democratic process will have failed."# SECRET1350108Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 108 of 134 PagesNW 88613 Docld:34517445Page 109
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SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dpOn August 23, 1968, NICK DELLERE, Del MarRental Company, Municipal Airport, Manhattan, Kansas,advised that on the late afternoon of August 19, 1968,ROBERT SCHEER was picked up by charter aircraft atMunicipal Airport, Kansas City, Missouri, and was flownto Manhattan, Kansas. On the morning of August 20, 1968,SCHEER was returned to the airport at Kansas City,Missouri, by charter aircraft which charter flightswere arranged for and paid for by a representative ofNSA.September 26, 1968A meeting billed as "America as a RacistCulture", sponsored by the Associated Students of the UCI,was held on September 26, 1968, with about 2,000 persons inattendance, mainly students. ROBERT SCHEER was one of themain speakers talking on American imperialism, stating itwas exhibited through the history of this country and wasnow being shown in Vietnam. SCHEER criticized the CaliforniaBoard of Regents for having refused ELDRIDGE CLEAVER theopportunity to lecture at a class at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, California (UCB). SCHEER defendedHUEY P. NEWTON, Founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP)(characterization to be found in the appendix), and statedthat becuase of all of the problems there had evolved aclose coalition between the BPP and the Peace and FreedomParty (PFP). SCHEER praised ELDRIDGE CLEAVER as the bestchoice among the presidential candidates.(running on the PFPticket). SCHEER said this is a racist society in which welive and the government's efforts to "control" the black manis causing opposition to the government. He said we wereforced into the streets in Chicago and society blocked ourdemands. SCHEER claimed "we must oppose that force."At the same meeting, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, Minister ofInformation of the BPP and PFP presidential candidate, alsospoke, condemning the racist pigs, the police, the courts,SECRET1351109Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 109 of 134 PagesNW 88613 Docld:34517445Page 110
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dpgun control laws and the racist power structure. CLEAVER recommended that everyone obtain guns and hide them so that they would be available when needed.SF T-95, 10/14/68The PFP was legally qualified as a political party on the California ballot through the obtaining of approximately 67,000 signatures of registered voters.November 14, 1968"The Dartmouth", Dartmouth College daily newspaper, printed at Hanover, New Hampshire, in its issue of November 15, 1968, carried an article headlined "Scheer provides sharp contrast in symposia focus". This article reported that a senior symposium was held at Dartmouth College on November 14, 1968, with five speakers participating. The article began by quoting ROBERT SCHEER, Editor in Chief of "Ramparts" magazine, as stating "you must use the means at hand, which might mean buring your ROTC building to challenge the institution". The article said "the program climaxed with Scheer's appeal for the students of the college to assert themselves 'by challenging the institution that is manipulating your life'". SCHEER reportedly added, "the spots closest at heart are where you can best challenge the manipulators. I suggest you get busy at task". He added, "even in the woods at Dartmouth, where there aren't any girls, the elements for a confrontation exist. I told a similar group at Columbia this, but they wouldn't believe it. But look what happened". The article stated that the audience applaused loudly at the conclusion of SCHEER's plea.# SECRET
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dp## VI. WRITINGS ABOUT SCHEER"Human Events" publication, Washington, D.C., in itsissue of April 8, 1967, carried a story headlined, "The InsideStory of 'Ramparts' Magazine". A portion of this story,Scheer's Radicalism, reads as follows:"Probably the best known nationally of Ramparts'staffers is Managing Editor Robert Scheer, who, at30, has made a career of New Leftism. A former memberof the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee, heis the most articulate of the Ramparts crew and con-tends that he is an anti-Communist."Last year Scheer ran for the Democratic nomi-nation for U. S. Congress in Berkeley, hinging hisentire campaign on getting out of the war in VietNam and getting into the 'War on Poverty.' Severalweeks ago, Scheer traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia,to meet with the Communist-controlled InternationalUnion of Students and representatives of the NationalLiberation Front, the political arm of the CommunistViet Cong in South Viet Nam."Not publicized in his race for Congress butrevealed later was the fact that Scheer's campaigncoordinator was Carl Bloice, a 28-year-old Communistparty member. Bloice's CP membership was hardly asecret, for several years he had been a by-lined staffwriter for People's World, the Communist weekly onthe West Coast, and then he was publications directorof the Communist-controlled W.E.B. DuBois Clubs.SECRET
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SF 100-46832WEH:kahSECRET"From Berkeley to D.C.At last summer's Communist party convention in New York City, Bloice was elected to the CP's National Committee and the requirements for serving on that policy board make it clear Bloice has been a CP member since at least January 1964, although intelligence agencies place it many years earlier.Just two months ago the newsletter of the Robert Scheer campaign - he is keeping his organization intact under the name of Community for New Politics (CNP) - carried a social note: 'Carl Bloice, heretofore coordinator for CNP, has left Berkeley for the larger battlefield in Washington, D.C., where he will be a correspondent for People's World and The Worker. At a farewell party December 23 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scheer, Carl was presented with several going-away gifts, including a larger than life poster of Mao-Tse Tung....Carl has indicated he will be an occasional correspondent (for the Scheer newsletter).…We all wish him the best of luck in Washington and we feel fully comforted by the fact that we are not losing a coordinator, but gaining a spy.'"Tax Money Helped"The portrait of Mao probably brought a gust of laughter when it was unveiled and presented to the Moscow-line Bloice, and the 'gaining a spy' phrase was simply New Left humor. The story makes two important points: 1) Scheer's campaign manager was a Communist, and 2) The Capital correspondent for two Communist newspapers will contribute occasional articles to Scheer's campaign organization."Scheer has told Human Events that he hired Eloice 'for his technical competence'; that he likes him as a person, but violently disagrees with his politics."Communist Bloice, however, was only one of Scheer's supporters. Another backer was the U. S. Treasury,SECRET1354112NW 88613 Docld:34517445Page 113Copy ............1 of 3...CopiesPage.112 of 134 Pages
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEHAPwhich channeled funds into Scheer's campaign. It worked this way. During his campaign one of his workers was Mrs. Phyllis Haberman O'Donnell, who has been chairman of the East Bay DuBois Club. Mrs. O'Donnell worked on a work-study program directed by the University of California's Department of Criminology (which is now practically another Sociology Department) and was assigned to a leftist group called Welfare Rights Organization as a case worker. In truth, she worked for the Scheer campaign and reported on it at WRO meetings."The work-study program was originally funded through the Office of Economic Opportunity, receives its funds through the National Defense Education Act and is overseen by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare."An article by IVAN SHARPE appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian daily newspaper published at San Francisco, California, in its issue of March 27, 1969, entitled "Ramparts - revolution with limousine service." This article reflects numerous interviews with present and former officials of Ramparts magazine and analyzes factors that led to this magazine's financial difficulties. The article places primary blame for the bankruptcy on WARREN HINCKLE and ROBERT SCHEER for their extragavant spending, such as taking their wives on trips for Ramparts and spending huge sums of money. Most of the blame was placed on WARREN HINCKLE because frequently his expense account would be more than the money he raised on promotional trips. The article gave most of the credit for the sensational stories and exposes to ROBERT SCHEER, who obtained them from his new left contacts. It reported that HINCKLE had destroyed Ramparts and SCHEER was angry about this. SCHEER decided to stay on as Editor-In-Chief of Ramparts and his salary has been reduced from $15,000 to $10,000 per year in an effort to help the magazine out of its financial problems.# SECRET1355113Copy 1 of 3 CopiesPage 13 of 34 PagesNW 88613 Docld:34517445Page 114
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# SECRETSF 100-46832WEH/dp## VII. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONSubject: The following is a physical description of theName ROBERT SCHEERAddress 6468 Benvenue Avenue,Oakland, CaliforniaSex MaleRace WhiteDate of Birth April 4, 1936Place of Birth Bronx, New YorkMarried September 15, 1957, to SERENATUREN SCHEER, date of birthOctober 16, 1939, at New York.Divorced, September 23, 1965,in San Francisco.Remarried October 22, 1965, to ANNEBUTTERFIELD WEILLS SCHEER,date of birth March 14, 1942,at California.Height 5'10 1/2"Hair Light BrownEyes Brown, wears dark rimmed glassesOccupation WriterPeculiarities Wears Van Dyke beardFather FREDERICK JACOB SCHEER, bornMay 5, 1898, in Germany,U.S. CitizenMother IDA KURAN, born April 24, 1900,in Russia, not a U.S. citizen.Wife ANNE BUTTERFIELD WEILLS SCHEER,6468 Benvenue Avenue, OaklandCalifornia.Employment Editor in Chief, RampartsMagazine, San Francisco, CaliforniaU.S. Passport Number D163804, issued February 5,1963 - turned in and new passportnumber 6041559 issued January28, 1966Wife's U.S. Passport # D167218, issued February 25, 1963 - renewed January 28, 1966   Education City College, New York - BA   Degree in Political Science,   June, 1958   Syracuse University, Syracuse,   New York, MA University of
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SF100 - 163321AD HOC COMMITTEE TO END DISCRIMINATIONAccording to an article in the March 8, 1964, issue of the "San Francisco Examiner," a San Francisco daily morning newspaper, TRACY SIMS stated among other things that following a sit-in demonstration in San Francisco during October 1963 by various civil rights groups, the groups realized that a central, coordinating committee was needed. The formation of AD HOC COMMITTEE TO END DISCRIMINATION (AHCED) was the result and SIMS became its chairman.A source reported on December 9, 1963, that in December 1963 TRACY SIMS attended a joint meeting of the San Francisco Communist Party Youth Club and the Communist Party Berkeley Off-Campus Youth Club.A second source, on May 12, 1964, described AHCED as a central body of representatives from militant youth organizations whose purpose was to work for equal civil rights and to put pressure on establishments and employers to hire more people from the minority races, especially Negroes.A third source reported on March 13, 1964, that at a meeting of the San Francisco Branch of the Socialist Workers Party on March 11, 1964, KIPP DAWSON, a representative of AHCED, related among other things that AHCED was directed and controlled by the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of the Bay Area.A fourth source reported on January 30, 1964, that on January 29, 1964, KIPP DAWSON attended a San Francisco Branch membership meeting of the Socialist Workers Party.Second source related on May 12, 1964, that the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of the Bay Area consisted of the W. E.B. DuBois Clubs of San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Francisco State College. According to source, any member of the W.E.B. DuBois Club of San Francisco who attends San Francisco State College is automatically a member of the club at San Francisco State College.A fifth source reported on February 3, 1965, that on February 3, 1965, a press conference was held at 1365 Turk Street, San Francisco, California. At this press conference, an official of AHCED announced and passed out press releases that as of February 3, 1965, AHCED was no longer in existence.