DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES INTERVENTION IN VIETNAM AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Agency: CIA
Originator: FBI
Document date: 06/15/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

June 15, 1965

DEMONSTRATIONS FROTESTING UNITED STATES INTER-

VENTION IN. VICTNAM AND. THE DOMINICAN. REPUBLIC

The Communist Party and other organizations are

continuing their efforts to force the United States to change

its present policies toward Vietnam and the Dominican Republic.

Thore is set forth below a summary of current and planned

future activity through which they hope to accomplish this

end.,

"Speak-Out"

It was previously reported that the Committee for

Nonviolent Action, a pacilist group, is sponsoring a "Speak Out"

on June 16, 1965, at the Pentagon,

Washington, D. C. During

this demonstration participants will make speeches from the

Pentagon steps; distribute leaflets; and demand an opportunity

to discuss Vietnam and the Dominican Republic with Pentagon

officials.

Hayworth, Executive Secretary, Committee for

Nonviolent Action, Washington, D. C., has stated the demonstration

will stait in the park at the Pentagon with the hope that arrests

of the demonstrators will result.

If this phase of the demon-

stration produces no arrests, the demonstrators will move to

the steps of the Pentagon and engage in civil disobedience to

provoke arrests. On June 12, 1965, an announcement was made at

the national convention of the Students for a Democratic Society,

a socialist oriented youth group, at Kewadin, Michigan, that

the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee planned to

demonstrate at the pentagon. and at Central Intelligence Agency

Headquarters on June 16, 1965;-as a protest

against United States

involvement In Vietnam.

Hayworth has stated hehas rejected

offers by

the Women's Strike for Peace and the Student Peace

Union to join this demonstration as it will be a Committee for

Nonviolent Action effort only.

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DEMONSTRATIONS PROTESTING UNITED STATES INTER

VENTION IN. VIETNAN AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

"Peace Conference"

Mary,

Clarke, former Communist Party member

and

the present Southern California representative of the

Women's International/Strike for Peace, a pacifist group,

stated atra meeting 9f the Women's International Strike for

Peace that tentative plans have been made to hold a "peace

Conference" between women from North Vietnam and the United States

in Djakarta®

Indonesia, from June 29, 1965,

to July 4, 1965.

She has asked for a two week postponement

order to have time to raise money and select the united Statet

delegates.. Congressman George E, Brown, JI., of California

upon being advised of this propgsed Conference by representatives

of the Women's International strike fol

Peace reportedly stated

he thought it was "a marvelous" idea."

Jessica Mitford, a former Conmunist

King, trai

tentatively selected to attend the Conference.

"Upon the delegates' return to the United States, they

plan to arrange a press conference concerning the meeting.

The press conference would include Congressnan Brown and

Congresswoman Edith Green.

Washington Action Caravan

The Vietnam Day

Committee, Berkeley, California,

which has been active in protesting

United States policy toward

Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, is assisting in planning

a Washington Action Caravan as a further protest against

United States intervention in Vietnam and

the Dominican Republic.

Under this plan motorized caravans will leave the San Francisco,

California, area in mid-July, 1965, and travel to Washington, D. C.

In selected connunities en route, the caravan will hold protest

demonstrations to build public opposition to our foreign policy.

It is hoped by the Committee that similar caravans will be

organized in other parts of the United States. All caravans

will congregate in Washington, D. C., in early September where

mass protest action will occur.

Present plans include blocking

traffic, staging sitins in Government buildings and obstructing

entrances to military buildings.

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DEMONSTRATIONS FROTESTING UNITED STATES INTER

VENTION IN. VICTNAM AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Other Activity

On June 12, 1965, the Committee for Nonviolent

Action sponsored a demonstration at Times Square, New York City.

Approximately 18 individuals participated in the demonstration

and carried placards asking for an end to the war in Vietnam.

The Inter-University Committee for a Public Hearing

on Vietnang Ann Arbor,

Michigat, which sponsored the recent

national teach-in it Washington, D. C., is continuing its

attempt to arrange a national, television debate on Vietnam

and the Dominican Republic with

Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Special

Assistant to the President.

Upon learning. that Mr. Bundy has-

been invited to appear on the American Broadcasting Company

television program

"Issues and Answers," a representative of

the Committee

contacted the American Broadcasting Company in

an attempt to have member's of the Committee invited to appear

on the same program.

The American Broadcasting Company was

agreeable provided such an arrangement had Mr. Bundy's approval

and if the Committee furnished a list of participants and

lull details of how the program will be conducted. As yet no

arrangements have been made concerning this proposed television

debate.

The Emergency Council on the Crisis of America

sponsored a public meeting at santarMonica,

California, on

June 12, 1965, to express opposition to United states policy

in Vietnam.

Senator Wayne Morse, the principal speaker, spoke

in Vietnam and said that it was impossible for the United States

to win even though ve may win some individual battles.

contended that United States foreign policy belongs to the

American people and not to the President. Approximately

2,500 people were present at the meeting and receipts totaled

above $11, 000.

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