peg qs ot ware eet soveenlp t ONexg . % if \ . a Ue Views and Comments by Billi Mshoney on SCC Activities a Son / Sus val 1. Bill Mahoney, who works fulletime for the Negro newspepér, “The ‘Atlante, Voice, continues to help StiCC headquarters in Atlanta with printing problems and publications, weiting as well as printing. Mshoney said he had turned down & job offer from The Atlanta Constitution in order to remain within the Negro . ‘community. - 2. Mahoney said thet the only SNCC projeet of internaticnel scope that he was avare of was the Jawes Forman's "Skills Bank." Under this scheme, he ‘said, American Negroes with various skills eould go abroad to work in African commtries. 3 Mahoney seid that Forman had asked him to draft a pamphlet about the \ Skis Bank sad he added that he himself was duterested because his father, a "gan wlth many skills," had got. into a scrape with the law end frustrated ia efforts to make ao career for himself. h. Mahoney did net know which varticular Arican count teles, Forvven enviseged participating im SHCC’s Skills Renk. If a ssce office was.te be ~— opened in Dar es Salaam, 1% would be to facilitate the operation, Mahoney felt. He said that so far he gathered that discussions abous the Skills Bente had taken place in Zambia when Forman attended the UN Seminar on Apatheid in iowa end perhaps in the USA. et 5« As for Stokely Carmichsel's current foreiga tour, Mahoney said that. nobody knew exactly what Carmichael was up to. It would be a mist take, he added, to think that. Carmichael was only conmected with SNCC and no other movement in the USA. He did not specify which other movements. Mahoney said that he felt that, basically, ‘the’ trip was to fur ther Carmichael's own education. ‘s) - Carmichael would definitely be returning to the USA end | SuICC people felt . that Carmichas] would be arrested almost inn mediately on some “phoney 8 charge," probably sedition. Ee would also lose his pessport, Nahoney sald, — but Carmichael. vould Pight the cases and the res ting publicity would only we AWE ther tae cause » helping SCC te win greater infla ence in the black Conny Background Use Cnly. It is requested no direct action be taken against bhe. _ Subject oa the basis of the contents of this report without prior cone S: qT. The Bureau kay pass the above report te anpropriate field offices for . Os with this Agency. This restriction may be considered withdye Ps ng Source! s departure from the United States, although wee y x “vere inde by Subject should continue 2° be Sonstaered Ay 3 LOS =F 30.7 a oa NOT eeecotos 46 OCT 29 1967 ALL FBI ARSCRMATION CONTAINED — REIN IS URCi H ee / 2-7) r Le | HW 55509 Docld:323392763 Page 16 [SSP - — | ee. = (00-2
| Routing Slip . : f a ‘ oo, oe O-7 (Rev. 331-67) (Copies to > Offices Checked) ; : ~, “e ‘ . . - TO: SAC,. . 7. °° 7" : * : ' Cc) Albany ° (_) Houston Siar New York City [] Tampa ‘ (_} Albuquerque [__] Indianapolis Norfolk (2] Washington ‘Field Anchorage Jackson Oklahoma City ~ [] Quantico , [_]} Atlanta [_] Jacksonville [_] Omaha ; : [] Baltimore Kansas City Philadelphia TO LEGAT: [__] Birmingham (_} Knoxville [] Phoenix [__] Bern {_} Boston ["] Las Vegas Pittsburgh [_] Bonn Buffalo [] Little Rock [J Portland ; [__] Buenos Aires © [_] Butte [_] Los Angeles [_] Richmond [_] Hong Kong (__] Charlotte (] Louisville [__] St. Louis [_] London (—] Chicago [_] Memphis (__] Salt Lake City [_] Manila Cincinnati Miami San Antonio [_] Mexico, D.F. Cleveland Milwaukee [—] San Diego {_] Ottawa []} Columbia [| Minneapolis San Francisco (__] Paris Dallas Mobile (__] San Juan [_} Rome Denver Newark [] Savannah C4 Santo Domingo Detroit [-] New Haven [_] Seattle {"] Tokyo f El Paso New Orjeans Springfield ; : Honolulu ¥, 16/19/67" a} ‘TERE SHOW OTH ‘sina om na .. Retention El For information optional [] action {[ } Surep, by The enclosed is for your information. If used in a future report, [_] conceal all sources, [  ] paraphrase contents) ASSiritn Sanita PAS OH: } pS Te Enclosed are corrected pages from rport.of, dated Remarks: Su = MISCELLANBOUS — | (RACIAL ENTELLIGENCE SECTION) 7 | 7 . Attached as 2 ‘CEA report: dated: 10/16/67 captioned, “Views and Comments of Elizabeth ther land” from their informant "Sagar." j 4 11 i | coy 4 (HW 55509 Docld:323392983 Page 17
eT f cS eyo i On - 1. Eldizabeth Sutherland of SHcC (see S-17) stated she nad po nos ha a eny | serious hostilit ty directed against her in the Hew Yors SCC oifice, abthough she ig white. ‘There had been en occasional sharp. remark, especially from Gore of the Negro gixis Ja the office, but she felt that she was spared har arsher > ' eriticlem because ai ia halfeNexicen. ; ea . A») SUBIECTs, Views end Comments of Elizabeth Sutherland | ae Sutherland mainteined chat fends | were not the probleu of SICC that the press sonetines indicated. 3. In answer to a direct questicn by Source, Sutherland stated if - Okely Carmichae] had not made a good impressi 3 om the Chinese Commmists,. ie was more than likely that Stokely's style, his arrogance end cockiness, aid not go dowa well in China, end she was. ciwe that Robert P. Willians end Carmichael would not hit it off well, mainly because of rivalry as Negro — leaders, eithough she maintsined that Willians would probebly be move concerne than Carmicheel. - oO ee L. Sutherland said she felt more hope about the vacial situation in Aserica since her return from Cuba because ghe had observed a marked chaage jin the attitude of waite students towards Heroes. She said she had attended. the SDS convention in Madison, Wiscensin earlier this year end had spoken ca & panel on the woman question. fhe complained that leftist women vere generalyy — behind middle-class women dn independence of their menafolk. While mouthing political slogans ebouts Freedom, the leftists were far more docile and submissive’ to masculine authority, she said. Asked why SuICC didn't have a black voman as 1. e "many its next leader, Sutherland seld that would be- & good idea, but there wer probliens Snvolved. "She aid not specify. 8 5. She sald that Fidel Castro >. to whoa the SCG delegation had spokes at leagth, could not waderstand blac! separatism dia the USA. Castro could not - yvaderetand the Hegro question other than a component of a bigger class issue, ghe added. ; ; Ge ‘Speak Sehsenmean, who had establishes 418 that ¢ m close ties with the Cuban Government, but she expressed the at ct 4 C1 ta NEE IS-uNe jae NTAINED aes /OS-930 92 NOT RECORDED 46 OCT 26 1967 — (5 lop’ yy ing of Ralph Schoonmen, Sutherland was frankly, hostile to = hom she comsidered some sort of racketear. She sdmitted Sehoenman dec Castro would eventually see through Schcenman and get rid ofthis | aW 55509 Docld:323392763 Page 16
Te Sutherlond eald she too ‘felt : now that the US 35R WAS feiiin g in its. duty to the world revolutionary movement. The Cubans were striving to regain some sort of economic independence of the Soviet Union and now admitted that. their ‘complete acceptance earlier of the so-called "Soctalist Division of Labor" was a serious mistake, as Che Guevara bad maintained at the tine. Sutherland said she had feared a turn to the right in Soviet bloc countries when she toured some of them in 1963, but pounce had the feeling that her , rejection of the Soviets was reluctant. She made no specific ez piticism.of the Chinese, except to say that they were vastly different from the Cubans end that the Cubans were creating anew and freer brand of Communic: She said that many Cubana were completely convinced that the United States would Lawnch > ea invasion of Cuba after tHe inevitable U.S. defeat/withdraval from Vietas Tae Cubans did not expect. eny military eseistence from the Russians she paid, 8. Ia paragravh 4 of Report | Sol, is the book being published by Dial Press is her own book on Cuba and not cne oF the books which she had worked ca with James Formun. Sutherland stated her Cuba book would consist mainly ef s tatenents ‘by Cubens she had spoken with and race would play.a big part in the book. Race was still something of a taboo subject for discussion in Cuba, Su utherlend said, but she stated that whiteeblack intermarriege had now become the fashionable da, thing exong the youths in Cuba. She said she expected an unidentified play on- _ @ racial theme to shake up Cubens and other Cuban cultural events to prempt , talk about race in Cuba. 9. While in Puerto Rico with James Formen end his then premant wife, . Sytherlend said they had stayed ab a beach cottage owmed by Dr. Ana Livia. AS Cordero, who, according to Sutherlend, has given uo medicine to devote hersel? to political orgenizing. Swhherlend said she: helped Forman to work on tWO books, which are now hal?, ‘finished. oo boo 10. Soecaking of her ow personel problems, Sutherland said she was constantly short of money. She would eventually have to wove from her large _ apartment on East 9$fad Strset. She said she had a problem with her l5-year _ old devghter, mainly beeause of the child's wibeppy relationship with her : divorced father, Hans Konimsberger. Suthe zland sald she did not went to £0 | to Europe warrtleuler ly, put thought she might visit friends there later tals | { year. Source also commented that Sutherlend, many years ago, had had an . , eborticn which left her sterile: he believed that this fact may heave been | . at the rcot of her differences wlth her former husbands oS = 1. In view of the particular sensitivity of Source's relsti ionship with Sutherlend end other members of SCC, no direct action should be teken by the Bureau on the basis of the above information without prior consultation with this Agency, or unless 1% is also develo; ped independent] , { N. ; HW 55509 Docld:323392763 Page 19