FILE SUMMARY ON RICHARD GEORGE PERRIN
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 11/07/1968
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1. SUMMARY REQUESTED REF A FOLLOWS:

A. RICHARD GEORGE

PERRIN: 20i-823559

DPOB: 27 J01 48,

HOLDEN, MASS. 1964 BECAME INTERESTED IN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:

JOINED MARCH IN CHICAGO LED BY M. L. KING. JUN 1966 GRADUATED

FROM HIGH SCHOOL STAYED WITH HALF-BROTHER RONALD F. PERRIN

IN SAN DIEGO FOR 7 MO. DEC 1966 JOINED ARMY BECAUSE HE BROKE UP

WITH GIRLFRIEND AND HAD HARD TIME FINDING CIVILIAN JOB. BASIC

TRAINING AT FT. GORDON; LATER TO FT. UNDERWOOD; THEN TO FT.

SILL WHERE HE BECAME INVOLVED IN ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT. 1967

ASSOCIATED WITH COMMITTEE FOR GI RIGHTS (GI RIGHTS FORMED BY

WORKERS WORLD PARTY, PEKING-ORIENTED COMMUNIST SPLINTER

GROUP, TO PERFORM LEGAL AID FOR U.S. GI'S). PERRIN'S MOTHER

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BELIEVES THAT HER SON HAS BEEN BRAINWASHED BY GI RIGHTS AND

HIS BROTHER. SHE SAID THAT ONE OF HER SON'S COMMANDING

OFFICERS SAID THAT PERRIN WAS TOO FAR GONE TO BE CHANGED.

PERRIN CLOSE FRIEND: OF ANDREW DEAN STAPP (DPOB: 25 MAR 44,

FILADELPHIA: EARLY LEADER OF RITA MOVEMENT IN USA; COURT-

• ARTIALED AT FI. SILL IN 67; PRES., AMERICAN SERVICEMENS UNION;

EDITOR, THE BOND; ASSOCIATE, YOUTH AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM).

15 JUL 67 ARTICLE ".•• • I WASN'I ALONE..." APPEARED IN NATIONAL

CUARDIAN BY PERRIN.: 31 JUL 67 PERRIN COURI-MARTIALED FOR ANTI-

WAR ACTIVITIES. AUG 1967 ASSIGNED TO IST BATTALION, 64TH ARMORED

REGIMENT, KITZINGEN, WGER: AUG-SEP 1967 WENT AWOL IO PARIS

WHERE HE CONTACTED TONY CLAY AND THOMAS SCHWAETZER. CLAY

IS CONTACI MAN FOR U.S. AWOL GI'S; ASSOCIATE, PARIS QUAKER CENTER;

ASSOCIATE, PACS. SCHWAETZER (AKA: TOMMY COOK, MAX COOK, ENU

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PETERSON. DPOB: 13_ JUN 28, VIENNA. RES: 39 RUE DE PERE CORETIN,

PARIS) CLAIMS U.S. CIT; ACTIVE COMMUNIST WHO HAS WORKED WITH

CASTRO GOVT; MAIN CONTACT MAN FOR AWOL GI'S; ASSOCIATE, PARIS

QUAKER CENTER; MEMBER, RITA; FREQUENTLY TRAVELS TO USA. 9 DEC

67 PERRIN INTERVIEWED BY CBS IN PARIS.

SEATED BETWEEN STOKELY

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'MR. COOK" POSSIBLY

THERE ALSO BEHIND CURTAIN IO MONITOR QUESTIONS FOR SECURITY

REASONS. PERRIN DESCRIBED REASONS FOR LEAVING ARMY AND JOINING

RITA. 11 FEB 1968 AT PARIS PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE STEP-UP

IN DESERTER/RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN. 21 FEB 1968 INTERVIEW BY RUSS

BRALET WITH PERRIN IN PARIS APPEARED IN NY DAILY NEWS. STATED

HE PERSONALLY ENCOURAGES DESERTION. SAID HE WOULDN'T CALL

HIMSELE COMMUNIST BUT WAS IN POSITION WHERE HE WAS QUESTION -

ING THE SITUATION. AS OF JUL 1968 PERRIN LEADER OF RITA; WRITER/

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PUBLISHER OF ACT; OFFICIAL OF FUARD; ASSOCIATE, PARIS QUAKER

CENTER.

B. TERRY KLUG: DPOB: 26 JUN 47, FT. WAYNE, INDIANA.

3 JUL 6? WENT AWOL TO BECOME FULL-TIME RESISTANCE WORKER.

POSSIBLY WAS STATIONED IN ITALY OR WENT THERE BEFORE ARRIVING

ARIS. 12 FEB 68 AT PARIS PRESS CONFERENCE WITH PERRIN. AS OF:

JUL 63 MEMBER OF RITA; WRITER/PUBLISHER OF ACI; ASSOCIATE,

PARIS QUAKER CENTER.

2. INREAD WOMUSE COMPONENT WISHES SEND OFFICER TO PARIS

TO DISCUSS OPERAIIONAL POTENTIAL WITH WOFIRM STATION. APPROVAL

OF CHIEF INREAD EXPECTED BY MORNING 8 NOVEMBER. WILL ADVISE.

IN ANY CASE, ANTICIPATE INREAD WILL INSIST UPON INREAD OFFICER

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