. * '. black violent retaliation. _. 48 a journalist. a - ‘that he could establish himself in China and explain the situation in America ~ . '- (if he had any idea what it now was) to the Chinese, who were indeed the a eee k Observateur, writing a book on the Afro-American struggle, had also visited - Kathleen Aberle, now living in Vancouver, Candda, who taught there and was ‘in contact with U.S. draft dodgers and others. ——_—— ners cosard tr Pest Maat ae res [ae oT : \ . . 2a . ‘ . ~ “RBE woo " | €e3 white radicals would not follow his example, because they wanted white ‘leadership and still believed myths about a revolutionary white working class, which simply was not true. The white working class was closer to fascism than the white bourgeoisie and constantly complained of the "soft leadership" in Washington and Lansing, Boggs added. 12. As for Robert F. Williaus, Boggs said he could not understand how Williems could even think. of retwming to the USA. It was utterly impossible and, if he were so foolish as to try, he would be dead within hours, Boggs __ said. He added that it was a miracle that he himself was not dead or in jall, © but white officials had probably correctly guessed that this might provoke Williems had never answered a single letter. that he had written him, he added, and had instructed Max Stanford to go. illegally . ; to Cuba in 1964=-to the point of stealing a car to cross the Canadian border-= a when he and Milton Henry had arrenged for Stanford to travel to Cuba legally © — But, he stressed, he was not hostile to Williams and hoped center of the world revolutionary movement. However, Mao*s statement was foolish when it referred to mity between black and white workers and he (Boggs) would tell him so if he ever saw him. 13. The Detroit. movement_had_no. international ties yet. They had heard . from Bjorn Kua (reporter in Sweden for Aftonbladet, an extreme left wing socialist paper) who wanted material for an anthology on black power, and were _ in contact with Quaderni Piacentini in Italy, and someone from Nouvel : Detroit several times. Williem Gardiner Gmith.had also promised to remain in contact with them, Boggs said. They also had an English-born friend, (Aberle lives at 4518 W. Marine Drive, West Vancouver.) Boggs told Yom Kwon (phonetically), a Chinese who works at Ford, that Aberle was visiting Detroit again in December, but was staying at a hotel rather than with old friends with whom she no longer agreed 7 politically. Kwon had apparently worked with Boggs in the Correspondence and preceding Trotskyist splinter GLOUDS 5 perhaps with Aberle, 1. ivunatics. As for RAM, Boggs said that, frankly, many of its members were > He did not believe they were guilty of everything they had been |” ‘accused of, but they presented the easiest target in America for white repression. Max Stanford had behaved badly with many people, especially Milton Henry, to whom he had written an obscene letter. And Paul (last name not known) was simply using the black movement to hustle money, Boggs said. ©. .He was rumning a sort of protection racket . 25. Boggs said he had been very cautious about Williams' feud with the Cubans and had not become involved in the dispute in nationalist circles” about Carlos Moore. He had not had enough facts to mseke a rational judgment, but he knew from an Argentinian who had visited Detroit. that Che Guevara was 55509 Docld: 32339283 Page 44
\ period of transition, but it hed established solid bases for the eventual | restriction may be considered withdrawn one month after Source's. departure - . 5 - os 4 . : .7 : J} rn . iQ a4 Oey * — alive six months as{O6 This Argentinien had actually seen Che somewhere in South America and Boggs was certain the Argentinian was a reliable source. 16. Concerning international contacts, Boggs complained of the lack of a review like the old Revolution and wondered if some sort of serious colloquium on black power end racial discrimination could not be organized abroad, either in Europe or Atries. 17. Boggs spoke highly of Daniel H. Watts ‘and his magazine, - ‘Liberator. He said he felt thet Liberator was read by the black people he wanted to reach ond he intended to write more frequently for the publication. -Rev. Cleage would do so also, he said. 18.. In conclusion, he said the black movement in Detroit was in a seizure or trensfer of pover in the city. In a matter of time, there would — be a black city administration, and this pattern would be followed in many other cities. Violence was necessary for self-defense against white raciste or to cut through the +u-arcwids and other “evasions Of the white.power, structure.in seeking. to_avoid. granting blacks. the management.of.their_ow |. affairs in their cities, the homelends of the ‘black nation within a nation ‘in America, Boggs emphasized. 19. Attached are copies of hand-outs distributed by the Reverend Cleage. pa! Also attached is a copy of an article which the Boggses expect to have hoo published shortly in the Hational Guardian. 20. The Bureau may pass the above report to appropriate field offices . ! for Background Use Only. It is requested no direct action be taken against - the Subject of this report without..prior.consultation with, this. Agency; this. from the United States. It is also requested that the Bureau's’ possession | of the Boggs draft article and its contents be closely held util such time as it is published, since we are wable to determine how many copies | of this Pertiouler dratt have been given < out by the Boggsese. om, S-16 ee re Attachments: 9 oo, ae As stated above , re a i t i: HW 55509 Docld:32339283 Page 45
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 , Gea cen. REG. NO 27 , : . oo) .. Tolson —— UNITED STATES GOV#stNMENT oS wn . ALL (REFORMATION CONTAINED ~ Bishop | M emorandum Hemet ig uielAce en excert HERE SHOWN OTHERWISE. 2 p2yfss Gale TO Mr ¢ D« J« Brennan, Ire =r DATE: 10/5/67 Roses . . Tavel . . Trotter —______. : ele. Room FROM : Sy J's  Papich i sunsecr SUGAR lK . oO Richard Ober, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), if advised the Liaison Agent that SUGAR has returned to the. East Coast and will be making some more contacts before he travels to Europe, Ober pointed out that in the event the Bureau believed it would be worthwhile for SUGAR to return to the West Coast and the Mid West for any additional contacts with past associates, CIA is in the position to arrange such travel. Ober commented that the Bureau possibly might deem it advisable to have SUGAR "check back" on infor= , mation previously furnished by the CIA source, S . ACT ION: The above information is being oan Nh to the attention of the Subversive Control Sections \\ 5S 1 = Gs Cs. Moore a. ME -C 18 /0§— 72° ITA =f 1 - Liaison : 1 = Mr; Papich é SJP:rab (4) i, OE 13 oct 10-1967 cae ce SU Declassify on: AW 55509) Bocld:32339283 Page 46
:  tosayer ALY {RFORMATION CONTAIRED HEREIN t 1S. va IOV ASVFIED EXCEPT “a. 4 WHERE SHOWA OTHERIA HSE. SECRET To =: pungeror, ret] (100~442715) FROM =: sac, CHICAGO (100242953) sussecT:/ AD HOC COMMITFTER FoR A | SnsTer-LNENIST PARTY, USA J Daclassify on on Bureau airtel, 9/13/67 and Chicago airtels, 8/14/67 and  eveven Gn 9/27/67 eG 6547-8 and CG 6548-8 telephonically DAR advised that they had been called that morning by RICHARD GIBSON and that because GIBSON was busy with other contacts W& “He only had time fer a luncheon engagement at the Sherman Hotel in _ Chicago. informants stated that because of the hurry-up nature of GIBSON's call, they acceded to his request. Informanté \ - Subsequventiy met with GIBSON and advised the following concerning this. contact to GAs RICHARD HH, NACHTSHEIM LERBERT Ke STALLINGS C2 and ROBERT RK: GLENDON dn 8/27 and £8/67 it may be stated at the outset t eG 6547 =3 advised that he felt that GIBSON knew of the relationship of CG 6547-8 as an informant, He based hic statemeht. on the . fact that GIBSON in his letter te the Ad Nec Committee (AHC) . indicated he had matters of importance to discuss and intinated. that he had been in contact with the Selgiangs on matters con- cerning the ARC, The informants advised that GIBBON had no matters of urgency to discuss with the AHC; that he was not particularily concerned with informants’ comments on the New 2 Politics Conference in Chicago; as well as with other mattere facing Marxist~Leninists in this country; and that it scemed . to them there was no real purpose to GIBSON’s contact with the. ARC. Hence, the conclusion on the part of CG 6547-S that GIBSO Kunso.) (B® S) . SK a 7 oct "26 st ' ml —— Pe? Cte ; O87 oo ' HW 55509 Docld:32339283 Page 47 “~ ORIGINAD FILED infy e
ca] 109~<1958 | iS) Oo | | may know of informant's statue ) | | SECRET . , ©G 6548-8, however, concluded that GIDSON was Solely interested in pushing sales for a forthcoming book based on articles of ROBERT WILLIAMS; (GIBSON mentioned more than once that the Belgian Communist. Party (BCP) was going to publish this book and that he, GIBSON, was responsible for the publication.) CG 6548-8 stated that their opinion of GIBSON could have been the result of: 1) the information brought back from Europe last year. by CG 5908+S to the effect that the italian pro-Communist group suspected GIBSON of b0ing a CIA agent and 2) GIBSON's repeated statements during this contact that he had been suspected of being a CIA agent, CG 6548-8 felt that because GIBSON repeated this charge against him at least three times during their discussion that they felt that this could have been the main and sole reason for his contact AUC. believe there is no substance to such accusations x ; Ww 55509 with the ARC, e.g., to dispel. the implication made by the italians that GIBSON was an agent; The informants advised that. they told GIBSON that as long as GRIPPA and RA INDORE believed the charge against him was false then so too & the « 7 It should be pointed out that both informants definitely believe that GIBSON is a CIA agent and that his primary reason. for contacting the AEC was to dispel the suspicions of the Italians, Informants added that GIBSON is asnooth operator, but that his ideological understanding is very Shallow and his manner of approach isusuch that .a Marxist~Leninist would have cause to . wonder just why he was being contacted by GIBSON, They concluded that a true Marxist would be vitally interested in the recent - New Politics Convention and especially of an analysis of the Black Power forces within this convention, but. such was not the case with GIBSON, CG 6548-8 stated that it was definitely her impression that GIBSON did not mean one word he said nor did =. he listen to any word that they said, Hence, their conclusion. ’. These impressions of the informants are set forth initially because of ‘the interest of the Bureau in this matter, Because of these statements and because of the status of GIBSON, the following information, which relates to his contact with informants, has not been set forth in LHM form, it being noted that this procedure was followed in GIBSON's contact with CG 65474S last year,. It is apparent that the submission of such information to CIA would identify our informants, | om Die gpcret Docld: 32339283 Page 43
Re ie Seg fair Wait oS GISSON advised that he had seen SID LENS that morning and produced a statement of LENS regarding the recently . held New Politics Conference, According to GIBSON, LENS was worried that the tactics of Black Power at the convention vould backfire to the extent thet the Government would crackdown on, not only Black Power groups, but ali iLiberal-progressive olenents(S GIBson etated that he had been to Las Angeles,. but not San Francisco or Canada, He related that he had talked to someone in Watts (not. identified) and also that Progressive ‘Labor Party (PLP) was passing out $5 bills to persons in Watts i to attend PLP classes, With respect to PLP, the informant stated that he had recently been contacted by a. former National ‘Committee (NC) member ef PLP who questioned the source of funds of this organization and GIBSON replied that PLP does seem to have a 16¢ of money’ to pass around. He was asked where he thought PLP was getting the money, but he did not answer the smonsnn With repect to PLP, GIBSON stated that-this organiza- tion has attacked China and the Belgians, When apprised of the ; recent standing of PLP with respect to Soviet aid to ‘Viet Nam, * the stated that this was not unusual since PLP always has been k to the left of everyone else. GIBSON stated that SI FRANK had contacte:) with the Belgians last year and all she was interested in was te have the Belgians print articles concerning the WILLIAM EPTON case, We stated that he does not believe that the Belgians know anything more about PLP and that it may have been for this yeason that the Belgians had asked the ANC te contact this organiaation(S wate. respect to the Belgian CP, the informants advised that GIBSON had nothing of importance for the AHC from the Beletans and the only information at all that he reported to the in: Ormants was the fact that JACQUES GRIPPA had recently been ill ‘(3 : \ . in connection with this conversation about GRIPPAS,, \ GIBSON advised that he had translated GRIPPA's pamphlet which | \ attacks U.S. “BS pamphlet the Belgians had promised to send to the ARC \ "The informants inquired of the status of LEO VAN ‘ZWOL , of the Holland Party, stating that they had received Viet Nam -\ literature through VAN 2WOL and-were highly disturbed to find out. \ through GRIPPA and RAINDORF that VAN ZWOL had been expelled . } Since VAN ZWOL had informed the AHC that he Was La friend ofS \ ae ~ « . x . . N | AW 55509 Docld:323392763 Page 49
; HW 55509 _ _ @ —_ a ‘ecfivo-aisss 1S) GIBSON they were wondering if he could clear up this matter for them. GIBSON reported that VAN ZWOL had been expelled from Holland for not being a citizen of that country, but that. he was still in the movement and operating in another country.  .,. He stated that VAN ZWOL was not expelled from the movement, GURNEE hence the impression that the informants had from the Belgians was erroneous, It was at thie time that GIBSON mentioned that he too had been expolled and the informants understood that the country he was. referring to was France. It was alse at this time that GIBSON brought up the fact that he had been accused of being an agent ef CIA by one of the Italian groups and that even RAINDORF and GRIPPA had had similar charges against thea. Informants advised him that as long as he had the backing of the Belgians hé was okay with the AHC, It may be iterated here that the informants advised that GIBSON raised this subject at least three times during his discussion with them, and again it. was their impression that this could wil have been the only reason that he was. in contact. with the AC that is, to counter charges made against him as a CIA agent 1c Enformants advised that one of the apparent. reasons for GIBSON’ 's trip in the U.S, was that he is trying to push the. gale of a book by ROBERT WILLIAMS, GIBSON related that he was. having this book published by the BCP and that it consists of & selection of WILLIAMS wr itings, In conneetion with the dis ussion on WILLIAMS, GIBSON mentioned that STOKELY CARMICHAEL has been in China twice; After CARMICHAEL's trip to Cuba he carried a message to China from Cuba with respect to Cuba's stand in opposition to China. on China's purchase of sugar from Cuba. GIBSON related that WILLIAMS “raised hell” with STOKELY and straightened hiv out in this matter (that is, presented the - pro-Chinese position to CARMICHAEL) (( It is not known if ‘this state icant, relating to CARMICHAEL — ig a self-serving device on the part of GIBSON to enkarge his, reputation as a trusted pro-Chinese communist, but dt was the informants* opinion that this could well have been the case since GIBSON is: & “name dropper" and uses this device to énhance his own standing. / aS GIBSON 4iso mentioned that ROBERT WILLIAMS will make speeches in Sweden sometinie in the near futwre and that his © appearances in Sweden thas been cleared by_ the Government. He stated that WILLIAMS will return to the v. ‘S. some aay s but. not, Docld: 32339263 Page 50
cfm YS) 7 : | a GIBSON furnished the las Of PAUL and SUE RICHARDS, ““ChiGp 924 ¥F Eagle Heights, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, to the informants . aS persons who would be willing recipients of the "Ad Hoe Bulletin” and who share a pro-Chinese view, Ee stated that PAUL RICHARDS is attending the University ef Wisconsin and is politically working on conscientious ebjectors and that he hopes that he will be able to finish hie Masters Degree before the Government clamps down on his anti-draft. activity. He stated that PAUL RICHARDS was a member. of the W.E:B.. DuBois Clubs and advised that he had met him in Chicago that morning, He Stated that PAUL RICHARDS is the son of HARVEY RICHARDS who he had known in the past and who formerly was: a resident of the West Coast, but who presently is @ wealthy contractor in Ghana; He stated that HARVEY RICAARDS' gecond wife was active ‘politically in Ghana and that after the fall of KWAME NERUMAL, she was to have been executed for her activity, but the only reason she wag saved was because HARVEY ( RICHARDS was a wealthy contractor, SS The informants advised that. their contact with GIBSON | Very friendly and they parted with the understanding that GIBSON ‘would report. to RAINDORF the. best wishes of the AEG) S) It is believed that the impressions of these inforsants are such to preclude any future contacts with GIBSON unless such gontacts are absolutely mandatory and have a solid basis for adyantarde to this operation, The names PAUL and SUE RICHARDS will be added to the | nailing - ‘list: UACB. LON | AW 55509 Docld:323392763 Page 51
TO a rnGi WW regne London (100-2611) (RUC) SUBJECT: ff pr OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 (_wk"- Liaison (direct) co te tain 5010-107-02 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27 UNITED STATES GOV°RNMENT AY Memoranuum ~ , Director, FBI (105-93072) 7 DATE: 10/3/67 RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON IS — CUBA ReLonlet 8/3/67. LA During a recent brief chance meeting in the lobby of New Scotland Yard Headquarters with a Specia] Branch Officer, Asst. Legat was asked if he had ever heard the - name RICHARD GIBSON. When told Asst. Legat had heard the - i} name before, the Special Branch officer than stated he had recently interviewed him during which GIBSON, under questioning concerning his involvements in all sorts. .of activities in the U.S., informed that his friends in the American Embassy would not allow him to get into if trouble. The Special Branch-offteer—tten asked if he was serving as a source or informant for the American Embassy. In reply he was told that if he was being used within the Embassy, it was on such,a high level Legat had never heard of it#MA, eo j Asst. Legat stated to the Special Branch Officer i ‘he had heard the name for to do otherwise would undoubtedly cast suspicion in the officer's mind that he was not being truthful as Special Branch is aware Legal Attache's Office 4 displays intense- i St in the activities of all Americans Because of CIA’S interest in the above matter, CIA’ | _ representative, London, was informed of the above Ss 3 t : Foregoing for information. Oi, — REE 30/9) 5-93 o]/- IS ? 406 FEB 4 Bureau 1 - London s Oct 9 1967 LM: vw } (5) ¢y | ud) ss¥ied by oes oa iy US. “Savings Baia: Regularly on the Payal Savings Plan Nar. JRA | AW 55509 Docld:32339263 Page 52