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14-00000 a , ‘The Campus, Radicats - The Deciine of SDS As A Significant Force oO oe The 1969 ‘SDS Chicago convention irreparably. split the organiza- tion, for several years the speurhead of the student radical move-, ‘ment. Dedication to purticipatory democracy was forgotten in a '. power struggle between existing ideological blocks. Intoxicated by victories achieved in part through violence at Columbia and Harvard, and misreading the commicment of students who participated in campus qTiots (the vast MA2OT LLY were not dedicated revolutionaries) one - - action subsequently -deatified as the Weathermen, sought after the — me conveaticn tO emersé fron their campus cocoon as a full fledged rev- | _ Olutionary force. 3y juerrilla warfare they hoped to topple selected. ' existing institutions of the capitalist system, if not the eer itself. The second faction to emerge, Maoist and rigidly Marxist - ..- the Progressive Laborizes - contemptuous of campus guerrillas as .- ~ “elitist™ put committed to a sometime in the future revolution, held. ‘that the time was not now, and that revolution could only be brought about with support “Free blue collar workers. The Revolutionary Youth “= .Movement, the third force, quickly disintegrated. Each gréup by ukase .. read the other out of/Sjs. Disunity, the fatal disease of extremist. “movements,” is for SDS now in its terminal stage. On Sunday,” December 27, 1970 some 500 delegate members of ‘the: PLP faction arrived in Chicago for what may be SDS's last convention, | ~~. §till seeking to weld an alliance with blue collax workers who despise . ; then. The Weathermen faction, decimated by governmental crackdowns, a. its leadership or. most of those still at liberty fugitives from the. “law, and a rank and fiie increasingly disenchanted with violence, .un-. invited did not attend. The four-day get-together, marked by more ~ acrimonious and seemingly endless devate, stressed the need for fur-- ther missionary work among the working class. Attendance - gown to.” S 200 for the concluding Say “ resemb eG a wake more than a convention. | ~ Onetime SDSers and those who might have become. “involved with ‘the : prototype SDS, now opt for membership. in 16-15 member collectives or. - cadres » ephemeral in duration anc vague of Purpose. - the Trotskyite Young Socialist Alliance, dedicated, “doctrinaire, - disciplived and dull, is emerging as the largest (5000) and most co-' .. hesive campus revolutionary group. Opposed to “picking up the gun," | they are-determined to make “every university a Red university." ~ ¥SA lacks the SDS popular appeal of a few years back, and has little ve potent: ial as a catalyst for ‘student violence. B. A Change In The Weather? . a oe : . In the latest (December 6, 1970) -in a series of prophetic "Weatherman" co: muni ques dispatched to underground publications, B adine Dohrn v’asilonara o2 S55 revolutionaries, seemed to be calling for an 2nd TO Violence in the nane of the cause. Proclaiming that “the future of sur revolution Acs been changed cGecisively;" “our belief that armed strugzie is the only real revolutionary stru ; O70! ft, 4 a
14-00000 es Cam us _Demonst'rations_ - ‘Winter Hibernation? -is a dormant campus issue. Admiuistrative and curriculum reform, so -2-002°—COi<@Ssti‘ Y is destroyed forever ;" that “this tendency .to consider ‘only bombings Or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier. the better, we've called the military error." Dohrn ob- served that outlaws ‘Living underground do not have a sense of what is going on and cannot develop strategies to build thé movement . Mumerically. Obviously after earnest organizational soul searching, she Outlined proposed future activities to: "Change and share the "cultural revolution." “Planning for and organizing rallies. and - demonstrations, mass actions against, among other things, the war, .,and in support of prison revolts" she wrote, “constitute the new - agenda." Removed from scenes of action are schools, and the army -_ _ “they ‘cannot do that which is ‘necessary to radicalize people." eens “While: the proposed change ‘in, Weatherman. action may be “wore = tactical than philasophical, it is a fact that many students, pro- ‘.£essing dedication to the necessity of revolution now, ‘have been . ““shocked by the results of some bombings. Violence has not brought ~ about the predicted repression which in turn, it was said, would . bring Weathermen mass sympathy and support. In all probability there will be a change . in the » evolutionary weather, for how: Jong ' we dO not ‘know, | Oop a., Ce so a Sy @ . . Spring, the ‘traditional season for campus ‘disturbances, is some oe nonths off. Accordingly despite a marked lull in protests since ‘September it may be premature to dogmatically state that a major. _. polarizing student offensive against U.S. Indo China policy or some . form of "Establishment" authority. is not in the cards, Student domin J. ated groups - at. odds with each other - the National Peace Action woo, Coalition and the Nationai Coalition Against War, Racism, dnd Re- “i- pression, are planning massive .anti-war rallies on @pril 24th and ‘May Sth in Washington and other large cities. Both‘endorse a G.I. Protest agginst the war scheduled for Armed Forces ‘Day (May 16th). _The National Student ‘Association, now considerably more. leftist oT thant ‘previously, is.formulating plans for yet another anti-war rall: to publicize the signing of a “peace treaty" by. U. Se Saigon, NUE ~~ and DRV students. _ oe o ‘Yet. there are discernibie signs that a national student protest _ of such magnitude and intensity capable of polarizing the nation to . the extent that did the May 1970 dimonstrations is only a slight . ‘- possibility, barring an event with the emotional charge of a major ~ military adventure in Indo China. The Kent State killings hada sobering effect on students, particuiariy the realization that it ‘could happen on their Campus . The senseless killing at Wisconsin ‘and other random bombiags nave undeniably diminished the romance of violence as a condition precedent to a revolution which, incidentally now no longer seems inevitabdie or necessary. Unregenerate tear so- ciety down revolutionaries are net today's student heroes. Vietnam & aero cence EE SO ts A YS
14-00000 = ae THES PANTHER LICKS HIS WOUNDS stridently sougnt a few years back, has: in large measure been achieve: . Current strategy dictates working with and through’ "the system" ‘despit a measure of student radicalization brought about by anti-war and othe Protests. The push today is for environmental reform. And not to be discounted is the fact that the vast majority of college students star _ With their parents in middle America. After years of strife, they SCE determined to get on with getting | an education. oe As criminal trials in New York City and New Haven, Connecticut : ar - proceeding against leading Panther functionaries and.some rank and fil -. police are conducting what in military parlance. is called “mopping up | Operations" against local headquarters in various parts of the country .. (Since the beginning of .Panther- “police confrontations, some 500 Panthe “yank and file have been ayrested.) Leader Huey Newton, at liberty on . bail, co-founder, Bobby’ Seale, incarcerated, and party theoretician ." Bldridge Cleaver, a a fugitive from justice presiding over the Party's “-. international. headquarters in Algiers’, all have become uncharacteristi oo] cally mute, And whatever excitement their pronouncements once were able to generate for the benefit of the Panthers jhas- ebated, _ The ® blac 2 Sommuniety has failed to rally around, Financial support from white Liberals ‘and ‘the radical chic,’ " un o der. devastating attack from many quarters, has all but ceased. “Exposes . | of the diversion of money collected for the once appealing free break- o Fast program for ghetto youth to other purposes has also hurt. . . v ‘ A withering attack by Eldridge Cleaver on the Communist Party. USA <0. for "active collusion" with "U.S. fascists" in “using «he Angela Davis | -'" ease as a “smokescreen to conceal the trial of Bobby Seale" will fur-. wy ther, disrupt what was at best a marriage of political convenience. =: Potentially more painful, however, than any ‘other recent: develop-— “2 ment is the precipitous loss of Panther prestige attributable to the — -  yecent debacle heralded as a National Convention to- Rewrite the Con-— stitution of the United States. . - The Background - For a variety of reasons, not the least of which are ‘the violence of their revolutionary rhetoric, their imagé as a group with internal _ discipline, and possessing the "machismo" to "shoot it out" with the - police, the Black Panthers were internationally proclaimed by various self- professed white revolutionuries as being the vanguard qf “the Revolution. Panther leaders were wined, dined, and fussed over in . Pyongyang, North Korea, by an obvious government sanctioned group, a “Committee for, the Peaceful Unification of the Fatherland." The Party has been lavishly praised by } Maoist China, and eagerly courted by the ~ Russians. Arab guerrillas entertained visiting Panthers and reports
14-00000 persist of their training Panthers in guerrilla warfare. Panther — ‘Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver made public appearances with and elicited praise from Al Fatah representatives. Panthers . .. “S$kip" Malone and Connie Mathews were official delegates to the | . European uropean based Third World Peoples Liberation Struggle, and were entertained in Denmark and Sweden. Messages of support and ex- a _\» pressions of solidarity poured into Panther headquarters from revo- oh. lutionary groups the world over. Radical revolutionaries flocked — |... cy.to attend a Black Panther convened National Revolutionary Conference © cr, for a United Front Against Fascism in Oakland, California held July .. “} 18-21, 1969 subvented in part by the Communist Party U.S.A, The. Socialist Workers Party pledged its "full solidarity" with the BPP. SDS, despite huni /ating rebuffs, embraced the Panthers, and SDS ’ founder Tom Hayden publicly endorsed the concept of a revolutionary _ -¢oalition of Panthers and white revolutionaries enunciated by El- dvidge Cleaver. On November 26, 1970, J. Edgar Hoover, appearing | =: before the Senate Appropriations. Subcommittee, testified that “Arab: “guerrillas reputedly are heavily subsidizing the Panthers.!:." Wide- «spread publicity was given the November 1970 offer by the Black ©» | os% Panthers to the Vietcong's Liberation Armed Forces to send fighting . i, SEOOPS to aid in. the struggle against U. S. imperialism. Clearly, the Panthers had preempted the Amegican field | as a swashbuckling, gun toting, "committed to the revolution" force, idolized by the majority of America's white radicals and extremists. ~ sIf their self-proclaimed "Marxism-Leninism" was diluted and something —— ~ less than 99 and 99/100% pure, it was of no import. By default, if — “Sor no other reason, the Black Panther Party had in fact become the ~. Vanguard of the American Revolution. ~The Constitutional Convention . a a wo eo a ~Some 6,000 people, 50% of whom were white, met in* “h spirit. ‘of oo prothesly love in Philadelphia.oyer ‘the Labor Day weekend under .. Panther auspices, ultimately to roar approval for a draft of a "new . constitution for revolutionary people."' Work was to be completed at “-.a ‘second Constitutional Convention in Washington over the November... “28th weekend, and approximately 4,000 faithful if not disparate dele-  . > gates, some from far away ,. consisting of Weatherman, SDSers, Chicanos, «Young Lotds, Gay Liberationists, and. assorted revolutionaries, again ~ . mostly white, came prepared to pay a $10.00 registration fee as a ‘prelude to creating a historic document. The Convention was doomed . from the outset. Efforts to secure a convention hall - first the - . Washington Armory, then the Howard University auditorium - were un- _ successful. Nothing appeared organized or structured to the purpose ' of the meeting. Delegates wandered around Washington in aimless confusion, some to attend hastily scheduled impromptu meetings, many to return home without purlicipalinp. al uny activity at all. -The majority of the attendees lert ungry over the monumental disarray and shaken in their, faith in the Puathers' ability to organize, much less ' lead, the contemporary American revolution. Even those who stayed to the end, their belief sufficier.tiy strong. to overcome the disap-
x é House ."") _ “s. | — oo Se pointment at the chaos, were depressed when Panther commander- in-chicf Hucy Newton, addressing the one big rally that materialized, appeared confused and abstract. In lieu of a promised revolutionary peoples . constitution, they left with a set of new and patently unredeemable pledges. ("We will Liberate Howard University." "We will hold our _ Revolutionary Peoples Convention for a raincheck until such time as ' we liberate Washington, D. Con and then we will hold it in the White — _ * After seven months of rallies, rap sessions, “conventions, press * conferences and publicity building up to a. Constitutional Convention, nothing happened. The more pragmatic Panthers must have known that - . the Convention would never produce a viable document, but rather hoped to use the occasion, as they did the Conference for a United. Front Against Fascism, as a rallying point for, radical extremists. nn They failed miserably, if not fatally. 4 : a "Prognosis The Panthers are , hurting. © “Irreconcilably « at “odds with ‘Black “Nationalists. and never accepted by the black mjddle class, their principal support flow comes from the unemployed, uneducated 18-25 year ‘Old.ghetto youths. - Loss of the vanguard role,-coming as it does, is a -severe set back for the Panthers, affecting the nature and extent of. overseas support. Peking, Moscow and Arab terrorists themselves in ~ gO dire straits will in all probability. now take a long hard look before making future commitments. At the moment with nowhere else to go, — ' Panther energies will be directed to community programs to be funded, ~in part, by a Huey Newton lecture tour .of U.S. colleges. ‘Police. authorities, aware that during the past four months Panther members _ have been arrested and charged with fifteen robberies and burglaries ‘across the country, believe they. were | Petpetrated to rephenash | Pp arty are coffers , Lo os ee : Bae "THE “TEMPLES OF ISLAM - A DURABLE INSTIT UTION | “With all the fanfare over the Black Power movement, ‘the curiosity’ created by Black Nationalisn, tae publicity bestowed on ” ephemeral al- - beit electrifying figures such as Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown : and the excitement generated by the Black Panthers, the Black Muslims have been all but ignored. a, : wt Long a potent force in tne black connunity, ‘the ‘Temples of Islam, -.. better known as the Black Muslims, are one of the most staple, cohesive. black movements in the United States and its leader Elija Muhammad one. of the most powerful black men. in America. SO :
14-00000 Background ; 3 The Chicago based Nations of Islam, characterized by J. Edgar _ - Hoover as the “largest black extremist group in this country," . teaches and preaches violent hatred of whites under the tutelage and dictatorial controi of the wizened, sickly.74 year old Elijah .- Muhammad, accepted completely by his followers as the authentic ~. - | ‘contemporary voice of the Prophet Mohammad. Assiduously tithing «=. _ from his followers (no reliable information is available as to Black ~ Muslim membership, with estimates varying from 10,000 to 100,000) he ~. _has forged a powerful enterprise consisting of farm lands, equipment, © ‘manufacturing establishments, retail shops and real estate believed -. : to have a net worth in excess. of $50 million. Within the past few. =) . y€ars there has been a gradual but perceptible enlargement of Black - .. “Muslim concerns. Initially an ingrown, self-centered movement it is “now if not overly active on the world scene “it is at least passingly .: -.concerned with geopolitics. A pro-Hanoi posture is now manifest in ~.. Muhammad Speaks, the official Muslim newspaper. Of late there has - ..been some cautious preliminary contact with white radical groups, ©. 7% Muslim delegates having participated in an Arab Teach-in at the Oo - University of Pennsylvania in May 1969 under the sponsorship of the °:: _-Young Socialist Alliance and the Committee to’ Support Middle East. °. . Liberation. Representatives of the Muslims:joined with white radi- ~~ -(¢als in attending the Labor Day 1970 weekend Revdlutionary Peoples —:. . Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia under Black Panther — - “auspices (relationships with the Black Panthers are ill-defined; ii while they speak no evil of the Panthers, neither do they praise — o “ov. them.) Further evidence of a gradual breakout from their traditional | .) . isolationism and self-containment was the appearance by a Black Mus- ... -+ lim minister from Harlem at thé Congress of African People megting in . “a: Atlanta, Georgia on September 6th, the Latest in,a series of annual |. . Meetings on black power first heid in 1966. NeXspaper accounts note ~. . that the participating Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan drew an enthusi- ~. _. astic response "far greater than that accorded other black figures -.. -‘who have spoken at the international congress." ae . Geographically dispersed with 120 Mosques from coast to coast ‘and regular radio broadcasts over more than 50 outlets and a news- + paper vigorously promoted on streets, subway stations and bus stops ..- . .in'metropolitan areas, with large Negro populations disciplined and dedicated, and exemplars of a clean, moral life, the Muslims are a ' respected in America's black cormunities. What they say about non- . . doctrinal matters has impact beysnc the Temples of Islam membership. — ~ A Cause for Concern Since the Suez crisis of 1956, the Black Muslims have shown ‘an tnucreasiny sympathy for Acabe wath whoin they adentaty both as, blacks and Muslims as against white, sro-Anericun Israel and Zionist ex- ploiters of blacxs. As of now the Temples of Islam constitute the largest reservoir of the anti-Semitism pollution in America's black community. ,
14-00000 Pa cae *, . . : . ote . ot : . .? . of Te . Sot . . ste . : : . A oe . . ot A drumbeat of unti- Israel, pro- -Arab editorials, news features ~. and a weekly column by one Ali Baghdsdi, a former president of the Arab students in the Uniteds€ates, appear regularly in the weekly _ Muhammad Speaks. Within the past few weeks Baghdadi‘s column 'Middie East Report," prominently featured on the first news page _ of the publication, charged that Israel is a racist state, alleged that brutalities of the Israeli government have been finally admit- _ted by the Red Cross, and reported that since the cease-fire Israel | Holy Cities have been turned into Sodoms and Babylons. ao. oa "Recent news “stories allege that Egyptian Moslems in the UAR re- we, gard the Nation pf Isiam with"love, respect and brotherhood," that | <?-) Israel and the United States call' for the death penalty of hijackers until Zionists are caught. Editorials proclaim that Zionism is a “°° corrupt form of nationalism, that it is financed by and run in the | cs. anterests of the greedy white financier-miljtarist-industrialist and _ _~, Blonism Supports the interests of the’ exploiters: of black people. ete, Stoked by the ‘fires “Of religious ‘fervor; among other things, a there is not likely to be a lessening of their strident anti-Zionism = -. with its anti-Semitic Spill-over. The infection is not likely | to . -- disappear. Hopefully it can be containee = and, quarantined. — THE NEO FASCISTS AS Klan Kapers, oo “As: ‘is the case with’ other nationwide. right-wing extreiigt Jovo-” “ments ; ‘the Klan hangs on, with just enough activity to sustain /organ- --izatfonal life. United Klans of America Imperial Wizard Robert Shel- :. don; released from jail about a year ago, has been making strenuous _ . @ orts to rebuild on the foundation of the old Klan. A tireless — “:traveler, Sheldon has been on the lecture circuit, making radio and: . -. television appearances (as the nation's #1 Klansman he apparently "warrants being put on exhibition) and meeting regularly with local wos - “klavern leadership. The United Klans remains the largest in a still | “highly fragmented Klan led by ambitious and competing Imperial Wizards. ». . Latest (March 1970) official estimate by FBI puts total Klan member~ . ship at about 5500. But there are recént stirrings, motivated by a- .. desire to capitalize on left-radicai inspired violence. Klan activity has been apparent in Pennsylvania (North Philadelphia, York and Bucks County), Atlanta, Georgia, Wilmington, Delaware, North Carolina,.. - Michigan and Florida. Some measure of political respectability ac- - -e¢rued to the Klan when the Michigan American Independence Party, sup- . porters of George Wallace, nominated the State Grand Dragon as its Candidate for. Secretary of State in.last November's elections. (A Klansman was a candidate for Pontiac's City Commission, but. withdrew because of what he described as "threats, ")
14-00000 4 } oo, { t . . : « . : ; - 4 cen .. : : . i. + On November 29th Alabama’ s Lieutenant Governor elect Jere L. ‘. . Beasley addressed the United Klans national "klonvokation" in - | Birmingham, Alabama and U.S. Senator James B. Allen in a telegram, - expressing regret at his inability to attend because of his wife's °* .. iliness, pledged his ‘continued Fight against the "Federal bureaucracy. " . In early January, ‘the Florida Klan (affiliated with the U.S.. Klan) “rs .conducted a vigorous orgunizing campaign in the Tampa area. * Grand ~~ Dragon John Paul Rogers, seeking to eradicate the night riders' ter- | rorist image, described the Klan as a "Christian Crusade dedicated to | .:, honoring the American flag, revering the Bible, destroying Communism," ‘> - and “upholding White supremacy." Rogers boasts that "within a few years we'll be so strong that without our endorsement , no ) candidate — a. will ‘stand a chance." , . a 7 ee ee ee ee we With ‘the surfacing in 1 Washington, D.C. last December of A6 year . Old George Van Ness, self-described East Coast leader of the Minute- . iss Men, it became apparent that a split in the once monolithic Minute- — is-. “Man organization was in the making. Never more than 5000 strong ce “+1. Nationally (present total membership is/ believed to number 200) the - “., organization was run by founder Robert DePugh with an iron hand, and - _) card carrying members throughout the country were loyal to him. For J. the past few years DePugh has had troubles with Federal authorities, | - gnd for 17 months was a fugitive from justice... Taken into custody -. by Federal agents in July 1969, DePugh was ultimately tried, convicted and on October 9, 1970 sentenced to nine concurrent Federal prison ; terms of 10 years each on nine counts of Violating» Federal. firearms oa _Fegulations. — ee Tn , a Be “Minutemen Minutiae nok chet om peuP wtte 0 iCute Asay A a Sos moe on . “Van ‘Ness, ina : Hyattsville, Maryland news conference, “goclared that the Minutemen would henceforth be independent of DePugh, and that _he would be the liaison between. the membership, which he said would . Lc. remain underground, and the general public. Van Ness declared that: ..the organization still was preparing to thwart a Communist takeover;'— - i.” that paramilitary maneuvers "in the mountains" were still an integral - part of their training regimen; and secreted away for future use was _ is. ammunition, two mobile field hospitals, four communications vehicles,.. is and machinery for an "intelligence network." The new Minutemen credo - . |. will avow their belief in white supremacy, with blacks and Jews put. oc. on notice that they would have to earn the right to equality.” Van Ness* Minutemen organization is in opposition to the apparatus left behind by DePugh to carry on until his ultimate release from prison. Spokesman for the still loyal to DePugh faction is 25 year old Bobert Taylor, a member of the nine man Minutemen -Bx ecutive Council and editor of On Target, Che official pulktication, with « ciaimod distribu tion of 40,0007 . . a % Recently Taylor nas concent rated on recruiting, and claims par- ticular success in the St. Louis afea. (Minutemen headquarters remains c cee meer eee ete nanny RE A St es aun SEREER Sete Sam eet J
14-00000 « oh : . * » . : . o 6 ‘9: . : : -~ an § oye ~ . . . an : . in DePugh's hometown, Norborne, Missouri). Taylor stresses that the Minutemen are now a youth oriented organization, and that although weapons and explosives were “still part of their training" Minutemen are under strict orders to refrain from acts of violence . fat this time. - 4 ‘DePugh, while a fugitive, was groping for | a "philosophy" for the “movement ,"' and for those who, like himself, had "somehow escaped’ the brainwashing of the cstabiishment controlled news media, the horrors . of progressive education, and the sophistry of modern Christianity. " His quest ended with the discovery of "Imperium," the Francis Parker Yockey anti- Semitic tome embraced by most of today" S more erudite neo Nazis. The contending factions of the remains of the DePugh vipat pati “* geem destined to go their own Toute » Both”seem to endorse hostility : toward Jews. De a, : : . . . “ P hoa ch" SANPUS UGEND - oe a 7 ae ae ot ‘Tooling up for a counter ‘attack against an’ anticipated spring, “leftist inspired campus offensive, the now patently anti-Semitic. National Student Alliance has moved into larger national headquarters at 1656 Wisconsin Avenue in Washington’ Ss historic Georgetown section. ‘Founded in ‘the spring of 1969 by’ ‘then 37 year old Louis Byers, “among other things a former John Birch Society organizer; catalyst | of the 1968. "Youth for Wallace" movement; and a featured speaker at “-. the: gutter-bigot National States Rights Party annual conventjion this - “> past summer, the NYA is closely allied with Liberty Lobby, one of. the “- largest and most effective ultra- “rightist pressure gfoups. peeorey . Lobby officials admit assistance to NYA in its fo Mative stages. aoe NYA's five man Adult Advisory Board, Revilo P, OViver, professor of : classical languages at the University cs) llinois; Richard B. Cotten, -s broadcaster and publisher of Conservative Viewpoint; Rear Admiral . '(Ret.) John G. Crommelin, perennial candidate for public office in --. “Alabama; Lt. Gen. Pedro A. Del Va te (USMC-Ret. “hp® long time parti- -. -c¢ipant in organizéd hate movements, and Austin p, former professor. .. at La Salle College, a post war apologist for the Nazi regime in Germany, all are or have been involved in Liberty Lobby activities, and all, with the exception of App, are patently, anti-Semitic. A four man student "Advisory Council," whose precise role is as yet un- announced, but presumably, together with the Advisory Board, deter- — mines NYA policy. Byers’ plan for a campus based organization was originally con- ceived as a vehicle to mobilize cadres of rightist students on campus to “crush" radical leftists. NYA evoived into a movement with a four point program: (1) To oppose ‘the use of dangerous drugs and narcotics
14-00000 hd ‘ . . ; ) . ” a. - ; . ‘, Loe ») : . . 7 ee .? . a a ee sos : SA ; Doe ; re . | { and to run those who push them off the campus; (2). To neutralize and overcome Black Power;. (3) To restore law and order to the campuses and to America by stamping out andrchist groups and movements and (4} To bring peace to America by resisting any attempt to involve us in a foreign war. (Emphasis has been | on the Middle East. rather than Indo China). ee a Organizational meetings have taken place on college campuses in . -. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. Byers claims, ex- a aggeratedly perhaps, a nationwide membership of more than 8,000 from .. 62 campus chapters. NYA publishes a monthly tabloid type newspaper Attack ("to serve as an agitational and recruiting tool among young '. Americans, mainly university students") with a claimed circulation . * O£ 25,000 and a monthly newsletter Action with a claimed circulation . a 8 of 4 ,000. - a o. _ In addition to menbership recruitment,’ current . emphasis is on the _, Welding together of “hard hitting action units" which will participate in rallies and demonstrations and if need be physical confrontation /. with campus left-wing radicals, and undertake the mass distribution of - racist, anti-Semitic “propaganda. A “Western Destiny" bookstore just . opened in Washingtan, D.C. stocks for mailorder ,and over the counter * sales, books, tracts, and pamphlets. Inventory consists of anti- - Zionist, pro-Nazi and racist material, a portion of which was taken — i. over from the now closed bookstore maintained by the’ late Lincoln” mo! Rockwell's: National Socialist White Peoples. Party. bes ‘Recent issues of Action have become stridently anti- -Semitic. The. - Fall 1970 lead article was headlined "Mideast War Next Vietnam for . . ~U.S.," with a sub-heading "Zionist Trap To Become New Slaughter, of ’°: American Youth," and featured alleged Zionist atrocities stories, a ".. grotesque. and anti- -Semitic cartoons. Byers, in a Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post (January 6, 1971) stated that: “The NYA opposes. '.. :: Zionism in’ America because Zionists, in their self-tentered pursuit of © ">. their own, extra-American goals, have not only shown a. callous disre- _ -. gard of American interests in favor of Zionist interests, but they have | ., habitually been witling | to ) adopt anti- American policies whenever this i, Suited their - ‘aims ."" re . . aon Of late NYA has been beset by - internal difficulties, with some - défectors seeking to create a competing organization. Byers, now as~ — _ S$isted by former American Nazi Party Tieutenant Robert A. Lloyd, remains "as the dominant influence. _ The. significance of an NYA lies in the fact that - for the first time in recent history, a campus based, neo-Nazi movement is in existence. It. remains to be seen if this ultra-rightist group organized to combat left-wing excesses can survive in its new form as a neo-Nazi, anti- - Semitic force on the college campus. =. . 2/71 -71-970-2