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SUBJECT
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Chief, WOMUSE
27112-35
(Chief of Station, Nairobi
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Vida Mae GAYNOR (201-867508)
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1. The following information on the Subject of 201-867508
was obtained by OPOWL/1 who hosted her at his home in mid-
April 1971 Subject has been in Tanzania for 20 months. She
expects to remain there permanently. She is employed by the
GOT as an assistant to the Deputy Chief Accountant for theleased
National Development Corporation. She expects to be promoted,
to the post of Deputy Chief Accountant on the first of May when
her present boss is himself advanced. She claims to receive a
"good" salary plus a TS 2500/month house for which she has to
pay only 10% with the GOT picking up the rest.
be has
2. Subject grew up in Queens, New York, where she was
very active in the African-Methodist-Episcopal Church where
she met her husband 25 years ago. She didn't finish high
school but was a good typist and easily. found employment "with
the New York Jews who realized they could hire a good black
secretary for 2/3 what they'd have to pay a white." She was
always active in social causes, anti-war demonstrations, civil
rights movements, and was active in CORE in 1966. She was a
staunch admirer of Malcom X and attended his funeral with
Mrs. Martin Luther King.
"
3. Subject was a member of the Jamaica Rifle Club, an
organization created to teach Afro-Americans to shoot rifles.
She claims to have "fingered" two "infiltrators" who had been
recruited by the authorities to penetrate the organization.
She claims that her instructor was another infiltrator who
eventually testified in court, causing the organization to be
"busted."
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C/WOMUSE
DISPATCH SYMBOL AND HUMBER
DATE
07511
(AKNA-6275
CLASSIFICATION
SECRET/RVRAT
30 April 1971
HOS FILE NUMBER
14+00000
DEGREE/KIDAI
AK
4: Subject has two sons. One, named Dennis (age 20), has
joined her in Dar es Salaam after she set up a mechanism to
help him evade the draft and depart the country illegally.
She has 
another son who is 26 years of age who spent two years
in the 
Army. He had been promised educational opportunities
by the recruiter. When denied these he studied abnormal
psych extensively and tried to feign mental illness, but was
instead put up for Court Martial for malingering. A friend of
Subject, the founder of the "Serviceman's Union" helped spring
the son.
5. Subject provides a home in Dar es Salaam for Daniel
Finley, a 26-year-old son of a prominent electrical
contractor in Dayton, Ohio. After avoiding his draft call--
when his father couldn't buy it off--he was jailed, but released
on bail. He jumped bail and was put on a plane for Dar with a
note to President Nyerere to 
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take care of my son. 81 He's
been in 
Dar for two years. He has had three audiences with
the President 
at which he has presented Nyerere with prototype
lathes and guns which he has himself produced in the technical
school where he teaches. He has promised to have a prototype
of an M-16 ready for display at an upcoming trade and industrial
fair
.
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6. Subject provides housing and contacts for Afro-
Americans coming to Dar es Salaam. 02 (OP) OWL/1 describes her
political attitudes as '...similar to a religious convert--
more radical than the radicals." She claims to be frustrated
with the slowness of the revolution in Tanzania suggesting
that experts from China and North Korea are needed, not those
from the West.
Burton Korode
Burton L. KORADE