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SUBJECTS

: SCHEER, ROBERT

"RAMPARTS" MAGAZINE-

FEDERAL GRAND JURY

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

FINANCES

STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

BLACK PANTHER PARTY

REVOLUTIONARY UNION

REPORT

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UNITY STATES DEPARTMENT OF JI TICE

• EDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

1 - Secret Service,

San Francisco (Class 3) (RM)

WILLIAM E. HUGHES

10/29/69

100-46832

ROBERT SCHEER

Office:

SAN FRANCISCO

Bureau File #:

105-106720

Character:

SECURITY MATTER - MISCELLANEOUS

0223085

Synopsis:

ROBERT SCHEER is self-employed as awriter and lecturer from

is residence, 3073 Bateman Street, Berkeley, Calif., having

resigned his position as editor of

"Ramparts" magazine in

early September, 1969.

Federal Grand JuIY (FGJ),

Iwas subpoenaed to appear before

JFK Law 10(a)2

to testify concerning the

appeared, but was unable to

SCHEER spoke at a

conference held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon,

3/28/69, in a debate with DI. S. I. HAYAKAWA, President of

San Francisco State College. He also spoke at Cranbrook

School for Boys, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, about 5/1/69.

He spoke at University of Missouri, 9/24/69.

5. WERED BY FOVIFK TASK FORCE

DETAILS:

A WEASE IN FULL

1. BACKGROUND

PEI SASE IN PART

A.

Residence

• TOTAL DENIAL

ROBERT SCHEER left no forwarding address when he left

495 Beach Street, San Francisco, California.

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no forwarding address when he left 1606 Union Street, San

Francisco, California.

Miss EBODIA MEZA, Clerk,

Postmaster's Office,

Yen and Mission streets,

Francisco,

9/30-10/23/69

ROBERT SCHEER left no forwarding address when he

departed from 6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oaxland, California.

ANNE WEILLS left a forwarding address from 6468 Benvenue

to 3073 Bateman Street, Berkeley, California, effective

July 23, 1969.

ROBERT PAINE, Clerk,

Postal Inspector's Office,

U.S. Post Office,

13th and Alice Streets,

Oakland, California,

9/30/69

Berkeley, California.

ROBERT SCHEER is now living at 3073 Bateman Street,

SF T-1,10/8/69

ROBERT SCHEER had no listed or unlisted telephone

in the

San Francisco Bay area.

SE T-2, 10/6/69

B.

Employment

A telephone call was made to "Ramparts" magazine

September 12, 1969, inquiring for ROBERT SCHEER.

learned that SCHEER was no longer employed as editor of

"Ramparts" and it was undecided whether SCHEER would have

any connection with this magazine in the future.

was accepting no messages for SCHEER and did not know his

whereabouts.

The "San Francisco Chronicle", daily newspaper

published at San Francisco, California, in

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September 12, 1969, carried an item in the gossip column of

HERB CAEN, reading as follows:

"Ramparts' big' guns - editor Robert Scheer and

art director Dugald Stermer, a kind of genius -

have resigned

from that troubled magazine.

They're in New York, living in Arthur Miller's

digs at the old Chelsea Hotel while making

lucrative contacts as free-lance consultants.

(Arthur?

He's out of town). Night before last,

Scheer, terrible-tempered as ever, ran into his

Old associate, Warren Hinckle, and Sid Zion of

the

'New York

Times" in a chic midtown eating

place and whapped zion over the head with a

load of pumpernickel. Put that on my tab. "

As set out later in this report under finances,

SCHEER is presently deriving his income from his writings

and from

speaking engagements.

ROBERT SCHEER had stayed at the Chelsea Hotel,

222 West 231d Street, New York, New York, for severad days

during the previous week, but departed stating he was

"returning to Chicago to live"

• He left no forwarding

address.

Pretext call by Special

Agent of the FBI,

9/23/69

C. Finances

ROBERT SCHEER was paid $1250 for the speech he

delivered at the loras College Fieldhouse, Dubuque, funds

on May 6, 1969. SCHEER was paid out of the private

of the Student Senate Intellectual Affairs Committee of

Loras College and no money was paid by the college itself

to him.

SF T-3, 9/2/69

on May 22, 1969, ROBERT SCHEER deposited a check

In the amount of $875 from H. Walker, Inc., drawn on

Bankers Trust Company, New York, New York, in his checking

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account at the Bank of America, 330 Bay Street, San Francisco.

SF T-4, 7/16/69

on July 16, 1969, the 1969-70 New York Telephone

Directory for Manhattan failed to show any listing for H.

Walker, Inc., but did reveal a listing for Harry Walker,

Inc., who occupies Suite 3406 at 350 Fifth Avenue, New

York, New York, and advertising itself on the entrance door

as presenting the world's most famous speakers.

Records of the Bank of America, Fisherman's

Wharf Branch, 330 Bay Street, San Francisco, California,

reflect that checking account number 06780-00074 was

opened in the name of ROBERT SCHEER, 495 Beach Street,

San Francisco, California, September 20, 1968. Examination

of this account revealed that it was inactive in July, 1969,

having neither deposits made nor checks drawn against it.

August 4, 1969, a deposit of $81.75 was made.

August 14, 1969, a deposit of $299.68, which was

composed of Check Number

16, dated August 12, 1969, to

ROBERT SCHEER from CYRILLY ABELS, drawn on Chase Manhattan

Bank, New York, New York, in the amount of $349.68, less

$50 cash. This check was marked, "Client's Account".

August 25, 1969, deposit of $9,000, composed of

Check Number 23, dated August 22, 1969, to ROBERT SCHEER,

from CYRILLY ABELS, drawn on Chase Manhattan Bank, 18 East

48th Street, New York, New York, in the amount of

$9,000.

This check was also marked "Client's Account".

No deposits were made to this account from

August 25, 1969 to October 3, 1969.

Some of the checks processed through this account

are as follows:

A check to JOSEPH BORGOGNONE in the amount of

$350, deposited in the South Berkeley Branch, Bank of

America, dated August 19, 1969.

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A check to MAL BURNSTEIN in the amount of $100,

dated August 27, 1969.

A check to cash for $1200, dated August 29, 1969,

for which SCHEER received

$200 cash and $1,000 in $10

denomination Bank of America Travelers. Cheques.

A check to ANNE WEILLS SCHEER for $2,000, dated

September 1, 1969, deposited in Bank of America, College

Avenue Branch, Oakland, California.

A check for $600 to Bank of California, San

Francisco, dated August 29, 1969, bearing the numbers

3017-802-921.

A check to the Chelsea Hotel, New York, New York,

for $100, dated September 5, 1969, deposited First National

•City Bank, New York, New York.

A check to IDA KURAN for $500, dated September 8,

1969, deposited Manufacturer's Hanover Trust Company, New

York, New York.

A check to WILLIAM KLEIN for $200, dated

September 15, 1969, deposited Chase Manhattan Bank,

422 - 64th Avenue, New York, New York.

A check to United Airlines for $285.60, dated

September 24, 1969, deposited Wells Fargo Bank, San

Francisco, showing

residence address 3027 Bateman Street,

Berkeley, California.

A check to Andre's Restaurant, San Francisco, for

"$50, September 23, 1969.

SF T-1, 9/30,

10/3 and 10/8/69

The above information may not be made public except

in the usual proceeding: following issuance of a subpoena

duces

addressed to EDWARD HALLETT, Manager, Bank of

America, Fisherman's Wharf Branch, 330 Bay Street,

Francisco, California.

San

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CYRILLY ABELS WEINSTEIN is a literary

agent with offices at 597 - 5th Avenue,

New York City, under the name CYRILLY

She is a white female, born

ctober 12, 1905 at Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania, married, graduated from

Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachu-

setts in 1926 with BA degree

(cum laude)

and in the early 1940s was an associate

editor of 'Harpers Bazaar" magazine.

In 1953, she was employed as managing

editor

of "Madamoiselle" magazine.

GEORGE DAVIS, New York City, whose

reliability is unknown, stated May 4,

1953, that ABELS had

recommended and

approved various articles for publi-

cation written by communist authors.

DAVIS added that ABELS tended to favor

individuals who were subsequently

revealed by newspapers

to be engaged

in communist or communist-front

activities.

San Francisco files contain no informa-

tion concerning JOSEPH BORGOGNONE:

MALCOLM BURNSTEIN is an attorney and

partner in the legal firm Treuhaft,

Walker and Burnstein, 1440 Broadway,

Oakland, California.

BURNSTEIN attended

a fundraising breakfast to benefit the

"People's World"

, held at the residence

of BETTINA APTHEKER KURZWEIL,

2224 Roosevelt

Street, Berkeley, California,

on May

1967.

28,

SF T-6, 5/29/67

BETTINA APTHEKER KURZWEIL has publicly

admitted her Communist Party (CP)

membership.

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The "People's World" is a West Coast

communist newspaper,

published

weekly

in San

Francisco, California.

MALCOLM BURNSTEIN, 6940 Charing Cross

Road, Oakland, Calfornia, renewed his

subscription to the "people's World"

for one year, until November 13, 1968.

SF T-7, 11/13/67

MALCOLM BURNSTEIN visited Hanoi, North

Vietnam, and had high praise for the

National Liberation Front on his return.

"People's World" issue

of July 27, 1968

ANNE WEILLS SCHEER is the divorced wife of

ROBERT SCHEER.

IDA KURAN is the mother of the Subject.

The information and

reservations office of United

Airlines

. (UAL), Post and Powell Streets, San Francisco,

alitornia, advised on October 6, 1969, that UAL does not

fly direct

from San

Francisco to Jefferson City or

Columbia, Missouri; however, a round-trip coach ticket to

Chicago on UAL plua a round-trip coach ticket on a

connecting airline to Jefferson City, Missouri, would cost

$285.60, including tax.

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D..

Arrest Record

FBI Number 431H reflects that fingerprints were

submitted for ROBERT SCHEER by the Sheriff's Office,

oakland, California, arrest number 69/8343, on May 22,

1969, charged with violation of Sections 647c and 407 of

the Penal Code and these charges

were dismissed.

E. Photo

The

"San Francisco Chronicle" newspaper, issue

carried an item

a portrait of Robert Scheer for

of American radicals."

RICHARD AVEDON is not listed in the

Pacific Telephone

Directory for San

Francisco or the bay area.

II. MISCELLANEOUS

A. Foreign Contacts

On August 18, 1969, ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts"

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magazine, contacted JOSE VIERA LINARES, First Secretary,

Cuban Mission to the United Nations, New York, New York,

and stated that he and Mrs. SCHEER would be in New

York City in about ten days because he was scheduled to

speak in Washington, D.C., September 2, 1969.

SF T-8, 8/18/69

The Army Information Officer at the Presidio of

San Francisco, received a telephone call from the City Editor

on the cly Ba

of the "San Francisco Chronicle" newspaper, August 25, 1969,

to determine whether an

Army plan, which had allegedly been

published in the "Stern" magazine in Germany, was based on a

top secret war plan for Central Europe involving the use of

biological and chemical weapons.

The documents that formed

the basis of this story were reported to have been provided

by one Major General HORST WENBLEND of the German Secret

Service.

The newspaper representative stated this document

would not be published until clearance was received from the

military. The report was allegedly furnished to the

"San

Francisco Chronicle" by ROBERT SCHEER, who was expected to

publish it. later in "Ramparts" magazine.

Major EVANS, CIC,

Presidio of San

Francisco, California,

8/25/69

B. Students for a Democratic Society

A characterization of Students for a

Democratic Society (SDS) appears in the

appendix.

The Hayward Chapter of SDS scheduled a secönd

American Revolution to be celebrated July 4, 1969, at

Hayward Memorial Park, Hayward, California,

with three

speakers scheduled to

talk at this

affair.

One of the

scheduled speakers was BOB SCHEER.

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C. National Anti-War Conference

A National Anti-War Conference was held at Cleveland,

Ohio, July 4-5, 1969, under the sponsorship of the Cleveland,

Ohio

ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts"

magazine was one of the people invited to this conference.

The source could not state whether SCHEER actually attended

SF T-10, 7/7, 7/18

and

8/11/69

D. New Mobilization Committee

Street, san Francisco, California., 94133, was one of the

people invited to a meeting of the New Mobilization Committee to

the War in Vietnam, scheduled to be held August 17 and 18,

1969, at the Central YMCA, 1421 Arch Street, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania. The source could not state whether SCHEER

attended this meeting.

SF T-11, 8/22/69

E. International Committee to

Defend Eldridge Cleaver

On August 14, 1969, Deputy U.S. Marshal LOUIS RAUGI

San Francisco, California, served a subpoena on

at the new

California, requiring

with him all records and materials relating to

to appear and bring

before the

Federal Grand Jury (FGJ) meeting at the

Ion

JFK Law 10(a)2

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER is currently a fugitive

from justice, in exile in Algiers, Algeria,

wanted in connection with parole violation

in the State of California, and Minister

of Information, Black Panther Party (BPP).

A characterization of the BPP appears in

the appendix.

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JFK Law 10(a)2

The "San Francisco Chronicle" newspaper, issue of

August 15, 1969, carried an article in the gossip column

Of HERB CAEN stating,

"Bob Scheer, editor of 'Ramparts',

stepped off a plane

from Algiers

this week (he was over

there with Cleaver) and was immediately slapped with a

Federal Grand Jury subpoena to testify

on the Black

Panthers.

'It's got to be harrassment' mutters

Scheer.

'Couldn't they wait until I unpacked

at least'."

DAVID R. URDAN, Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney,

San Francisco, California, stated August 20, 1969, that

did not appear before the FGJ on this date

with the records of

due to a misunderstanding.

attorney,

→ explained that

could

not possibly answer the subpoena duces tecum inasmuch as

he did not have custody of these records.

said that the persons having custody

of the records were

and

then issued for

and

instructed throughhis attorney

Subpoenas were

and

was also

to appear before the FGJ,

The "San Francisco Chronicle", issue of

August 28, 1969, carried a news article which reported

that ROBERT SCHEER and RICK HYLAND appeared before FGJ,

San Francisco, on August 27, 1969, where each reported

that he had no records of the

"defunct Cleaver Defense

Committee". SCHEER was placed under continuing subpoena,

neaning he can be recalled at some future time. SCHEEF

vas quoted in the article as saying that keeping him

under a subpoena was "a continuation of the process of

harrassment. It prevents me from working as a journalist.

I'm scheduled to leave on a European trip Saturday and

The "San Francisco Examiner" and the "Oakland

Tribune", daily newspapers published in San Francisco

and Oakland, California respectively, in their issues of

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August 28, 1969, carried similar stories on SCHEER'S

appearance

before the FGJ.

ROBERT JOYCE KALDENBACH resides at

1843 Capistrano Street, Berkeley,.

California.

RICHARD FRANCIS HYLAND, II, Apartment 1,

1309 - 10th Avenue, San Francisco, was

reported: by ANDREW J. EYMAN, Judge of

the Superior Court, City Hall, San

Francisco, on July 9, 1968, as having

arranged to be married by this judge.

During the course of Judge EYMAN

performing the wedding July 3, 1968,

between RICHARD FRANCIS HYLAND and SUSAN

GREENWALD, EYMAN asked HYLAND to repeat

the words, "with this ring I thee wed

according to the laws of the State of

California"

• Hyland replied, "with this

ring I believe in the overthrow

of the

government of the United States".

Unbelieving, the judge asked Hyland to

repeat this statement, but he refused to

do so.

Then the judge crossed his name

off the marriage license and refused to

perform the ceremony requiring Hyland to

get another license before he could get

married.

SF T-12 reported March 9, 1969, that Rick

Hyland was active in the Bay Area

Revolutionary Union (BARU), as was Hyland's

wife, but Hyland was being expelled for

individualism.

SF T-12 stated May 7, 1969,

that Hyland was no longer a member of the

RU, but his

wife was still a member.

A characterization of the BARU is contained

in the appendix.

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DAVID R. URDAN, Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney,

San Francisco, California, was contacted September 29

October 9 and 16, 1969, regarding whether L

was still under

subpoena to FGJ.

October 16, 1969, from

URDAN stated he learned

the U.S. Department of Justice

attorneys

handling the FGJ inquiry into the

affairs of the BPP that

was no longer

under subpoena to the FGJ and his residence address was

unknown.

JFK Law 10(a)2

F. Speeches

The "Oregon Journal" newspaper, Portland, Oregon,

in its issue of April 4, 1969, carried a news article

headlined, "Left, Right

Argue

at UO Conference"

This

article related that on March 28, 1969, the 22nd annual

Conference of the Oregon State High School International

Relations League held a meeting at the University of

Oregon (UO), Eugene, Oregon, delivered by DI. S. I. HAYAKAWA,

resident of san francisco State College, San Francisco,

california, who debated with ROBERT SHEER, editor in chief

of

"Ramparts" magazine.

The article stated SHEER condemned

the American way

of life, criticizing corporations, the

press, universities and most elements of 20th century

culture.

It added that ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, the Black Panther

who was removed from the UC faculty, was one of America's

best and most important writers.

SHEER reportedly

criticized the public for its indifference to this action

by the university.

It stated SHEER advised high school

students that "to be involved in your little high school

group here is going to turn you into finks, believe me."

The article concluded by stating, "SHEER called for a

're-establishment of democracy'

claiming that it will

demand a smashing of the power of corporations, having a

free press,

having access

at the universities to different

ideas and giving the universities back to the students."

About May 1, 1969, there was a joint session of

Kingswood School for Girls and Cranbrook School for Boys,

each

a part of Cranbrook Institutions, Bloomfield Hills,

Michigan, revolving around an annual World Affairs Seminar,

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featuring six speakers, one of whom was ROBERT SCHEER. The

topic this year was student disturbances. No publicity

whatever is allowed concerning these seminars either at

the schools or in the public press and no such publicity

was had.

SCHEER's appearance at the seminar was without

incident.

SF T-13, 9/24/69

The "Columbia Missourian" newspaper, published at

Columbia, Missouri, in its issue of September 24, 1969,

carried

a news article announcing that "Robert Scheer,

Editor-in-Chief of the magazine

'Ramparts'" would apeak at the

University of Missouri, Jesse Auditorium, Columbia, Missouri,

on the

evening of September 24, 1969, on the topic, "Free

Speech - Free Press"

the

i cies con nee

This meeting was under sponsorship of

"Student Activities Concept of Education" and was opened

to students, faculty and staff.

The "Columbia Missourian" issue of September 25,

1969, carried a news article

headlined "'Ramparts' Editor,

Audience

Postponed Closing of Jesse"

, which reported on

the meeting described above.

The article stated that with

than 300 people attending this meeting, the scheduled

11:00 PM closing time was postponed to 11:30 PM, after

ROBERT SCHEER asked the audience for a show of hands on

continuing the discussion, and the vote was almost unanimous

in favor of continuing.

The meeting continued at "The

Chez", 100 Hitt Street, Columbia, after 11:30 PM, with

about 200 people in attendance.

The article stated SCHEER

urged those present

to act against "society".

"All the rest of the country regards this

in eX and

SCHEER said

the "movement" was simply asking for a fundamental change

in this country.

as bizarre, and

a detriment to the society and thus it is

repressed, but it is necessary if the United States is to

continue its role in the world". SCHEER added that as the

American public began to see that the historical role of

America as a

"do gooder"

was not true, they began to

question the basic democratic system.

As they moved to straighten

out the government, they began to challenge this system and

were repressed, he said. SCHEER added that the channels

which professed to be open to all, suddenly began to close

as exemplified by the college revolutions of the 1960's

and civil rights movement.

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Regarding the free press, the article continued

by stating SCHEER said "Ramparts" was not read by many

persons because they lacked the funds.

He

stated

that even

if a magazine

had the money and the advertisers, it was

almost

impossible to get into the competitive market.

He

said,

"Sure, you can

sell on the street corner and speak on

campuses, but how many people do you reach that way?

Free

speech doesn't mean anything unless you are on TV or in

the

movies.

That's the only speech the people are digging;

that's why we have to force the TV cameras to focus on us"

SCHEER continued by saying, "People in Missouri have never

action so they don't really know what America is all

about.

Democracy is alive and well if you've never tried

it.

Try it and you will see how badly it needs changing.

You have to be part of the solution and not the problem.

You've got to be creative and imaginative and militant -

you can't cop out.

I'm sorry, but that's the way it is".

The "post Tribune" newspaper, published at

Jefferson City, Missouri, in its issue of September 25,

1969, carried a news article headlined, "Speaker Incites

Student Rule Defiance"

This article also described the

meeting at the University of Missouri of September 24;

1969.

It estimated the attendance at 700 to 800 persons.

This article stated the meeting was scheduled for 8:00 PM,

but actually began at 9:15 PM, due to the late arrival by

plane of ROBERT SCHEER.

In addition to mentioning SCHEER's

remarks about repression of the New Left, it reported an

interview of a third year law student, ROBERT NUSSBAUMER,

who said he had attended the meeting and had questioned

ROBERT SCHEER about objectives of the New Left, but failed

to receive an answer.

NUSSBAUMER said that the same

people who have an undying commitment to free speech shouted

nim down when he tried to point out to the audience that the

Missouri Universty Administration, which was responsible

for the 11:00 PM closing hour, also had a responsibility to

the people of Missouri.

The article said that ROBERT SCHEER

incited a group of students from the University of Missouri

to violate the 11:00 PM closing time of Jesse Auditorium,

where he was speaking.

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BLACK PANTHER PARTY, aka

Black Panther Party for

Self Defense

According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther

Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Oakland,

California, to organize black people so they can take control

of the life, politics,

and the destiny of the black community.

It was organized by Bobby George Seale, BPP Chairman, and

Huey P. Newton, BPP Minister of Defense.! Newton is presently

serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on a conviction of manslaughter

in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer.

"The Black Panther," which

further describes

The official newspaper "Black Community News Service,"

itself as the

states that the BPP

advocates the use of guns and guerrilla

tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the

black people.

Residents of the black community are urged to

newiden tenor the

arm themselves against the police who are consistently referred

to in the publication as "pigs" who should be killed.

"The Black Panther" issue of September 7, 1968, contains

an editorial by BPP Minister of Education, George Mason Murray,

which ends with the following:

"Black

men. Black people, colored persons of America,

revolt everywhere!

Arm yourselves.

The only culture worth

a revolutionary culture. Change.

Dynamite! Black power. Use the gun, Kill the pigs everywere:

Included in the introduction to an article appearing

in the October 5, 1968, edition of "The Black Panther" is the

statement, "

.. • We

will

not dissent from American Government.

We will overthrow it."

Issues of "The Black Panther" regularly contain quotations

from the writings of Chairman MAO Ise-tung of the People's

Republic of China

and feature MAO's statement that "political

power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

The national headquarters of the BPP is located at

3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. Branches have

been

established at various locations throughout the United

States.

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PEVOLUTTONARY UNION,

ALSO KNOWN AS

PED UNION, BAY AREA

REVOLUTINNARY UNION

In September, 1968, a source advised that the

Revolutionary Union, commonly known to its membership as

the Red Union (RU), was formed in early 1968 as a covert,

revolutionary, Marxist-Leninist organization idenlogically

oriented toward Communist China, which

it views as the

model of the correct revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line as

developed through MAO Tse-tung.

The Pll advocates the necessity

of violent revolution

guerrilla warfare to overthrow

the existing political sustem in the United States and effect

radical changes in this nation, and some members are collecting

firearms, explosives, and other weapons and have engaged in

guerrilla warfare and

firearns training.

In the San

Francisco

Bay Area, the RU consists of three locals, one each

in San

Francisco, the East Bay, and the Peninsula.

In April, 1969, a second source advised that the Ru

partially surfaced

during that month through advertisements

in

"New Left" periodicals, identifying

three members of the

Executive Committee as public spokesmen and offering

for sale

select writings of the RU, including a "Statement of Principles,"

in the form of "The Red Papers."

the exception of the three

publicly identified spokesmen, the general membership of the pu

will remain covert; however, individual members are free to reveal

their RU membership to close political associates as the necessities

of political effectiveness dictate.

The RU's published "Statement of Principles" calls for

the smashing of the existing

apparatus by the United States

working class and the establishment of communism and the dictatorship

of the proletariat; recognizes the necessity of violent revolution

and organized armed struggle to achieve those ends and calls for

the creation of a revolutionary darty based upon Marxism-Leninism

as developed

through MAD Tse-tung.

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STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

A source has advised that the Students For A

Democratic Society (SDS), as it is known today, came into

being at a founding convention held at Port Huron, Michigan,

In June, 1962.

From an initial ideological posture of

"participatory democracy," the current line of the national

leadership reveals an adherence to Marxism-Leninism.

MICHAEL

The

program of SDS has moved from involvement in civil rights

struggles

anti-Vietnam war position and finally to

Its present advocacy of an anti-imperialist line, linking

up the oppressed peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

with the black liberation movement in the United States.

China, Vietnam, and Cuba are regarded as countries which

are leading the

world-wide struggles against United States

imperialism.

On the other hand, SDS regards the Soviet Union

as

an imperialist power and does not support the policies of

that country.

West

Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois. Its official paper

"New

Left Notes" reflects the line of the national leadership

sos maintainnicaphe line

a National Office in Room 206, 1608

and program adopted at meetings of the National Council and

National Interim Committee (NIC).

Three national officers and

a NIC of eleven

members are elected each year during a June

National Convention.

SDS Regional Offices and university and college chapters

elect delegates to National Council meetings wherein program and

ideology are debated, but each Region and chapter is autonomous

in nature and is free to

carry out independent policy and programs

reflective of local conditions.

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AU OF

In Reply, Please Refer 1o

File No.

BU file 105-106720

SF

file 100-46832

UNIT. / STATES DEPARTMENT OF JU-LICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

October 29, 1969

Title

ROBERT SCHEER

Character

Reference

SECURITY MATTER = MISCELLANEOUS

Report of SA WILLIAM E. HUGHES,

dated ana captioned as

above,

at San Francisco, California

All sources (except any listed below) whose identities

are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable

information in the

past.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI.

of the FBl and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside

it is the property

your agency.

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