BLACK POWER AND STUDENT UNREST.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: CHIEF, WOMUSE
Document date: 11/04/1969
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•ol as you will note in paragraph I of the Reference, we

asked SMABOVE to give us compiled information that they have on

various MHCHAOS targets. At the time they said that these con-

tained their own internal source information and could not be

passed.

They promised, however, to furnish us the same material

in a form that could be passed.

The attached two books entitledo&

"The Black Power Movement in Canada" and "Unrest in the Academic

Community (Canada)"/were recently passed to us in response to

this request.

From a cursory review of the material it appears that

some of it is already known to you.

thorough checking.

we are also attaching SMABOVE'S letter of

transmittal which

updates some of the information!

You will note

| that they invite our comments.

We feel that this is somewhat of a break through with

[SWABOVs] We have not received this kind of complete report from

them recently.

We intend very soon to offer some comments to

them

and especially offer our appreciation. Your comments also

would be appreciated.

4o We do not know for sure if LNERGO was also given these

We assume they were not.

Tooked tO ENERGO we will lot you know.

If we determine that they were

love Tillolthen

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APPENDIX 16

In early 1967, BROSE received a Canada Council grant for research

on Mexican politics and, in the fall of 1967, visited Cuba.

BROSE, one of the first

exponents of academic freedom and

tenure

of appointments at SFU

of the SiU administration issukey spokesman during the CAUT censure

He supported the radical group's

attempts to push faculty demands on academic and administration

matters to the extreme.

Leroy Roger BUTCHER - student, SwU

BUTCHER, a West Indian and a member of the SGwU

Caribbean .Students

Society, attended the Black University Conference

(BUC) at Howard University, Washington, on 13 to 17 November 1968

where he stated that only by working together would Black people

achieve their objective - total liberation, black nationality and

1y exte 1106 ton

black identity.

BUTCHER was elected Chairman of the International

Black Student: Union organized at the BUC and plans were made for the

Union to operate in every university in the Western Hemisphere.

was following BUTCHER's return to Montreal that the Black Students

Association was organized. BUTCHER was one of the key leaders

during the occupation of the Computer Centre at SWU and was one

of those arrested during the riot.

Sidney CONTZ - Associate Professor, SFU

COONTZ, a U.S.A. citizen who was granted landed

immigrant status in Canada in 1966,

became an Associate Professor

of Mathematics at SFU in January 1968. COONTZ has a history of

Communist involvement which, although sporadic, dates back to thé

1930 's.

4 Laughlin Bernard CURLIE - Professor, SFU.

CURRIE, formerly an American citizen, was implicated as a

Communist fellow traveller in the mid-1940 espionage trials in the

United States and subsequently went to Colombia where he took out

citizenship.

Following this,

in May 1967, he cane to Canada and

has since obtained landed immigrant status.

CURRIE was responsible

for a position at SFU and purposefully played down

Marxist leanings, claiming that HALPERIN had been a victim of cir-

cumstances.

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DANIELS, Danny, A5/1

FANON, Franz, 87

89, 91,

DAVIS,

93 , 1271

Horace Chandler, 74,

A4/6, A16/3

DAYE, Buddy,

88-89

De

FREITAS

Michael

(Michael X), 88

DELINE, Graham,

55-56

DENT,

Kenneth Victor, 65

De POE, David, 58

DEWART, Leslie

Sutherland,

A4/6

DUFNI, Jacques. Franz Alfred

(Prof.), 47, 98,

109,

127,

A12/1-2

A16/4

DOUGLAS, Rosie, 84-86,

88-89, 91, 93-44, 127,

A16/4

DRACHE,

Daniel Eron, 31, 34

JUbt, flerre,

DUBUC,

Alfred (Prof.), 98

DUTSCHKE, Rud1, 9, 27, 44

James G., A4/7

FOULKS Andrew Gunder, A16/4

FRANK,

FREDERICK, Kennedy, 90-91, 93, 127

A16/5

FRYE, H. Northrop, A4/5

GALLAGHER, John, 121

GARAUDI, Dr.

Roger (Prof.), 98,

A2/2, A12/1

ди кор 272, 120/2

GIBBS,

GOLDMANN, Lucien (Prof.), A12/1

GOLDSTICK, Daniel Jeffrey

• (Danny), 40, 64-65

GOODINGS ,

Stewart, 55

GRAHAM, David, 79

GRAY, Stanley, 34,

50-51, 82

106-107, 109, 136, 45/1-3

Tom, 72

GROULX

GUEVARA,

"Che"

, 24

119

MMONDS, Duncan,.

EDWARDS

BUS HINSTONE,

NIcOtt, Dr. dames G.

A4/5,

A4/9-10,

A16/3

ENDICOTT,

Norman, A4/5-7,

A4/9-10

ENGLE R,

EPSTIEN, Donald E. (Prof.),

118

126, A16/4

ERNST

(see ADAMS, Eric)

ESCARTIN, Ricardo, 42

EVANS, Donald Dwight, A4/6,

A4/9

HALPERIN, Maurice, 126, A16/2,

A16/5

HANLY, Charles Mervyn Taylor,

123, A4/1, 14/6

HARDING, Sa, 113,

3,° А3,2 А 8/2

39-40

HAY,

Roderick Winston, 118

114

72, A10/1

HER2OG, Alan (Fred), 82, A16/5

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APPENDIX 16

Kennedy Jerome FREDERICK - student, SGWU

FREDERICK, a West Indian, arrived in Canada in August

1967 to attend university at ScuU.

FREDERICK is a member of the

militant Negro movement at the University and advocates violence.

He is considered by some parties to be extremely dangerous and

capable of drastic actions.

He was active in organizing the

occupation or the Computer Center at SGwU and was one of those

arrested during the riot.

Maurice HALPERIN - Professor, SFU

HALPERIN was born on 3 March 1906 at Boston, Massachusetts

and entered Canada in the spring of 1y68.

In late 1953 he left the

United States for Mexico in order to avoid testifying before a

United States Senate internal sub-committee:

in 1958, when the

Mexican Government began deporting United states Communists,

HALPirIN went to the Soviet Union, and became a visiting professor

at the U.s.S.r. Academy of Sciences.

Lyoz as a protessor of Economy at the University of ravana,

he remained employed until coming to Canada.

So a t the in one te

He went to Cuba in Uctober

where

He is currently

employed with the Faculty of Education, Behavioural Science

Foundation, at Simon Fraser University.

As noted above, Laughlin

Bernard CURKIE lobbied very hard to have HALPERIN accepted by

Simon Fraser University. CURRIE was aware of HALPERIN's background

and "watered it down" to get him the appointment.

Of particular interest in this case is the fact that

CURRIE and HALPERIN were associated with the same espionage group

in the United States.

His application for landed status vas

the

subject oi an objection by the RCMP and, as yet, no final decision

nas neen made by the Minister of Immigration.

Alfred Alan HERZUG - graduate student, McGill University

university campuses with robert Cuise, a leader or the Inter-

travelled to several Canadian

nationalists (pro-Chinese Communist), in their promotion of the

Canadian Student Movement.

He is a member of the Intellectual

and Patriotic workers of Quebec (les Intellectuels et Ouvriers

Patriotes du quebec - lofa, was involved in the occupation of. Stu

in February 196Y and is a close associate of the leader of the

Internationalists H.S. BAINS (see APPENDIX 14) •

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of the SU at SFU, consists of left-wing activists in this

category.

Martin LONEY, who was one of the student leaders

during the SFU incident, entered Canada as a British citizen in

August 1966. Dr. Thomas Burton BOTTOMORE, a leading Marxist

and author on Marxism as well as a British citizen, took up

employment at SFU in 1965 as head of the Department of Political

science, sociology and anthropology (roA

BOTTOMORE, as head of

the PSA, was responsible for the hiring of Kathleen ABERLE, a

British

citizen, and of Thomas Harold BROSE, John William Carl

LEGGETT, Mathan POPKIN and Martin NICOLAUS, all U.S. citizens.

Although the largest concentration of foreign radicals

other activists did take positions in

ot eru epartments I these reluded Sidney COONTZ, Michael Allan

LEBOwITh, Paul baward Ivort, and Maurice HALPERIN, all U.S.

citizens, and Laughlin Bernard CURRIE, a citizen of Colombia.

Mordecai BRIEMBERG, who took over as head of the PSA

Department after BOTTOMORE tendered his resignation in 1967, has

expressed a desire to remain as Department head in order to

keep

his hand in on the hiring.

In this regard, Gerald SPERLING iS,

through BRIEMBERG, making efforts to get Malcolm sauverse an Americar

Marxist university professor who apparently worked for the Communist

underground in Italy during the early 1960's, into SFU.

Professor Donald E. EPSTEIN of the Political Science

Department at the University of Waterloo, an American citizen

described as a draft dodger and an SDS member prior to his arrival

in Canada in 1967, as previously indicated, has been active in

organizing and directing students in tactics and methods by which

they could take physical possession of university buildings.

EPSTEIN, who has been active in student power activities at

Waterloo, has apparently been refused tenure at that University

and there are indications that activist students intend to challenge

the administration in this regard.

Professor Norman STRAX,

an American who was employed

as an Assistant Professor o1 Physics at the University of New

Brunswick, precipitated the crisis at that University.

STRAX was

instrumental in the fornation and activities of the SDS branch at

chat point.

See APPENDIX 16 for further details on

specific foreigners living in Canada.

"See APPENDIX 16.

3The SDS at UNB is also known as the Canadian Struggle

for a Democratic Society (CSDS).

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