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Released under the John F

Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note).

Case#:Nw 86613 Date:

09-18.2025

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : INSCOM/CSF

RECORD NUMBER

: 194-10002-10203

RECORDS SERIES : DOD-AFFILIATED PERSONNEL AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : PAGES 1243-1377

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM : [ RESTRICTED ]

TO

TITLE : I RESTRICTED ]

DATE

: 04/22/69

PAGES

: 135

SUBJECTS

: SCHEER, ROBERT

FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE

PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY

W. E. B. DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA

STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE

VIETNAM DAY COMMITTEE

PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY

REPORT

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : SECRET

RESTRICTIONS : 3, 4, REFERRED, SECTION 11(a)

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 05/17/98

OPENING CRITERIA : COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY FBI

COMMENTS : COORDINATION WITH FBI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND

DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE WITH RESTRICTIONS, PER

MEMO DTD 05 JUNE 98.

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FD•20d; (Fer. 3+3-59)

SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

1 - SECRET SERVICE, SAN FRANCISCO (CLASS 3) (RM)

Report of:

Date:

WILLIAM E. HUGHES

April 22, 1969

Office: SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

Field Office File #:

100-46832

Bureau File # 105-106720

Title:

ROBERT SCHEER

Characier:

SECURITY MATTER - MISCELLANEOUS

REVIEWED BY FBWJFK IASK FORCE

ON 1113/92 clo

RELEASE IN FULL

* RELEASE IN PARTI

_TOTAL DENIAS

Synopsis:

ROBERT SCHEER, white male, date of birth 4/4/36 at New Lock,

Benvenue Avenue, Oakland,

California, with his wife ANNE and infant

son.

He is employed

as Editor-in-Chief of 'Ramparts" magazine,

495

Beach Street,

San Francisco, California.

SCHEER's affiliation with the

following groups set out:

Fair Play For Cuba Committee,

Progressive Labor Party, W. E: B. Du Bois Clubs of America,

students For a Democratic Society, Young Socialist Alliance,

Vietnam Day Committee, Communist Party, Community For New

Politics, Peace and Freedom Party and Black Panther Party.

Foreign travel, writings, speeches and television appearances

of SCHEER set out.

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I. BACKGROUND

A..

Employment

ROBERT SCHEER is employed as Editor-in-Chief of

"Ramparts" magazine, 495 Beach Street, San Francisco,

California.

May 1969 issue of "Ramparts!

B. Residence

ROBERT SCHEER resides with his wife ANNE and infant

son at 6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland, California.

Mrs. GEORGIA GWILLIAM

6480 Benvenue Avenue,

Oakland, California

April 14, 1969

C. Marriage Record

The San Francisco "Examiner" newspaper, issue of

October 23, 1965, contained a marriage notice for ROBERT

SCHEER, age

29,

2546 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, and

for ANNE WEILLS, age 23, Berkeley, Califomnia.

Records of the County Clerk's Office, City Hall

of San Francisco, reflect that suit #539250 was filed

January 7, 1964 In behalf of ROBERT SCHEER, who was bring-

ing suit for divorce against SERENA SCHEER, to whom he was

married September 14, 1957 at Brooklyn, New York.

The

Plaintiff

alleged that he and his wife were separated about

December l, 1961 and that they had no community property.

SCHEER charged his wife with extreme cruelty and grievous

mental suffering. SERENA SCHEER was served with notice of

divorce proceedings February 7,

1964 and failed to appear

to answer charges.

ROBERT SCHEER was granted an inter-

locutory judgment of divorce September 14, 1964 and decree

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was made final September 23, 1965 by LELAND J. LAZARUS,

Judge of the Superior Court

for the City and County of

Francisco.

Marriage license records maintained at the Recorder's

Office, City Hall, San Francisco, reflect that Book #1433,

page 250, shows that ROBERT SCHEER was married to ANNE B

WEILLS on October 22, 1965. In the application, SCHEER

stated he was born April 4, 1936 at New York,had been pre-

viously married once, which was ended by divorce. His

residence was listed

as 2546 Geary Boulevard, San Francisco

and his occupation as Foreign Editor in the publishing

business. His father was listed as FREDERICK SCHEER, born

in Germany, and his mother was IDA KURAN, born in Russia.

The bride furnished her full name as ANNE BUTTERFIELD WEILLS,

born March 14, 1942, in California, and was not previously

married..

her residence as 108 El Camino Real,

Berkeley; occupation - student. Her father was listed as

JOHN C. S. WEILLS, III, born in Nebraska,

and her mother was

AUDREY DAVIS, born in Nevada. Marriage license #5213 was

issued October 21, 1965 and the marriage was performed

October 22, 1965 by the Honorable LENORE D. UNDERWOOD,

Judge, San

Francisco Municipal Court.

ANNE WEILLS SCHEER was the recipient of

a yearly subscription to the "People's

World" (PW) newspaper under her maiden

name ANNE WEILLS, 2828 Milvia Street,

Berkeley, California.

This subscription

was due to expire July 31, 1966:

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February 10, 1966

The PW is a west coast Communist weekly

newspaper published in

• San Francisco.

IDA KURAN, born April 26, 1900 in Russia

joined the

International

Workers Order (IWO)

in March 19,7 and was a member of Lodge 500,

IWO, as of late 1953.

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June 22, 1954

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The IWO has been designated

by the Attorney General of

the United States pursuant

to Executive Order 10450

FRED SCHEER, who was born May 28, 1898 in

Germany, joined the IWO in November 1941

and was

a member of Lodge 500, holding

Certificate #288936, as late as 1953.

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June 22, 1954

The name FRED SCHEER, 653 Britton Street,

Bronx, New York, appeared on an original

petition to Judge H. R. MEDINA, protesting

the trial of members of the National

Committee of the Communist Party (CP),

USA.

D. Education

Records of the University of California, Berkeley,

(UCB) contain information that ROBERT SCHEER was born

April 4, 1936 at Bronx, New York.

He applied for admission

to the graduate division at UCB, Berkeley, California on

May 20, 1959, at which time he was residing at 2915

Wheeler Street, Berkeley.

He listed his former residence

as 205 O1lis Court, Syracuse, New York.

He received a

BA degree in political science at the City College of New

York in June 1960. The student Directory for the fal

Semester 1960 at UCB, reflected that ROBERT SCHEER, 1916 A

Francisco Street, Berkeley, California, was registered for

the fall term as

a graduate student in economics.

E.'

"Root And Branch Press"

"Root and Branch Press" was being orgainzed by

BOB SCHEER, a student at UCB, where it was planned that

SCHEER would head this organization which was to be a

magazine published for and by ultra-liberal students at UCB.

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A leaflet was issued by the "Root and Branch Press" which

reflected that it was planning to publish a book by MAURICE

ZEITLIN and ROBERT SCHEER entitled "The Cuban Revolution,

An American Tragedy."

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September 6, 1961

F. Interviews of Subject

Another Government agency that conducts security

investigations interviewed ROBERT SCHEER July 11, 1958,

August 10, 1961 and August 16, 1961;

the last interview

being under oath. During the interviews, SCHEER stated

that while in college he attended a few meetings which he

felt were run by someone who could have been in the Labor

Youth League (LYL) and had attended one social event

which he felt was definitely sponsored by LYL, but explained

that he had gone to this affair to meet a girl. He said he

never attended a political meetings of LYL and

added that

he has never been a member of the CP or any organization

cited by the Attorney General.

read the "Communist Manifesto" frequently and studied it

as an example of ideological development.

SCHEER said under oath that he did not consider

the CP, USA to be a threat to the United States and had no

reason

to believe that a person who joins the CP swears

allegiance to a foreign power or advocates the overthrow of

the United States Government.

He said he believes that the

CP is not subversive because it claims to be interested in

bringing about its program through democratic process.

SCHEER refused to discuss his trip to Cuba in 1960 and

refused to discuss his membership, activities or associations

with the Student Fair Play for Cuba Committee

(SFPCC) under

protection of the First and Fifth Amendments.

SCHEER stated under oath that he has never been

arrested and that he considers he owes his allegiance to

the United States, but does not believe in the philosophy

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"My Country Right or Wrong."

SCHEER also stated that he was

qualified and fit for military service and had never done

anything to render himself ineligible for military service.

SF T-4

October 31, 1961

The LYL has been designated

by the Attorney General of

the United States pursuant

to Executive Order 10450.

The Fair Play for Cuba

Committee (FPCC) is

characterized in the

Appendix.

G. Birth of a Child

Records of the Department of Health, Alameda

County Courthouse, Oakland, were checked on April 29, 1968

by IC ROBERT L. GIBSON and a record was found of a birth

of'a son named

• CHRISTOPHER WARREN SCHEER, born September

1967 at Berkeley, California to ANNE BUTTERFIELD WEILLS

SCHEER and ROBERT SCHEER, 6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland,

California.

H. Marital Discord

ROBERT SCHEER has been living at his home, 6468

Benvenue Avenue, Oakland, California, since about September

7, 1968. On September 26, 1968, Mrs. ANNE SCHEER told some:

of the neighbors that she and ROBERT

SCHEER were separating

because they live different kinds of lives. ANNE SCHEER

said she was moving to an apartment somewhere near the

Oakland-Berkeley border where she planned to live with

man named TOM, not further identified, whom she expected to

marry eventually.

belongings from the residence at 6468 Benvenue Avenue,

Oakland, on September 26, 1968.

SF T-5

September 26, 1968

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ROBERT SCHEER was at his residence, 6468 Benvenue

Avenue, Oakland, on October 19, 1968 and had his infant son

with him.

He also has a new girl friend who looks like a

"hippie" who has been at this residence quite a lot in

recent weeks.

It is understood that SCHEER's son has been

residing with his mother at a different location.

Mrs: JOHN G. GWILLIAM,

6480 Benvenue Avenue,

Oakland, California

October 21, 1968

Mrs. GEORGIA SWILLIAM, 6480 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland,

California, reported October 14, 1968 that ANNE SCHEER had

been living with THOMAS HAYDEN while ROBERT SCHEER was away

on trips for "Ramparts" magazine and now appears to have

taken their child and both are residing with HAYDEN full

time at HAYDEN's apartment. / The SCHEERs reportedly had

reached a mutual agreement to get a divorce.

ROBERT and ANNE SCHEER reside at 6468 Benvenue

Avenue, Oakland, California, and most of the neighbors refuse

to associate with them.

There has never been any sign of

emotion or warmth exhibited between them. When THOMAS HAYDEN

arrived in early September 1968, it became very evident that

ANNE SCHEER was very strongly attracted to him in a physical

way. ANNE is believed to have met HAYDEN in Hanoi, North

Vietnam during the summer of 1968. When ROBERT SCHEER made

trips away from home, HAYDEN would move into the SCHEER

residence.

During October 1968, ANNE SCHEER indicated she

intended to seek a divorce from ROBERT SCHEER and would move

into the apartment of THOMAS HAYDEN.

Beginning about

Christmas, 1968, ANNE SCHEER returned home with the SCHEER

baby and has remained with ROBERT SCHEER for the past month

or more.

THOMAS HAYDEN has not been observed in the company

Of ANNE SCHEER or visiting the SCHEER residence in more than

one month. There are numerous visitors to the SCHEER

residence and it would appear that several men were living

at this residence regularly in addition to the SCHEERS:

While ANNE SCHEER was in Hanoi, ROBERT SCHEER received

a

threat to his life that frightened him greatly. He moved

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out of the house immediately and hired a private investigator

who moved into the house

"armed to the teeth" It appears

that ROBERT SCHEER has been somewhat frightened ever since

this threat.

SF T-6

January 16, 1969

THOMAS EMMET HAYDEN was the original

organizer of the Students for a

Democratic Society (SDS) and, according

to the

• "New York Daily News" of January

10, 1968, was one of a party of three

who travelled to North Vietnam in

defiance of US

Department of State ban

on such travel.

A characterization of the

SDS is contained in the

Appendix.

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"RAMPARTS" MAGAZINE

"Pamparts" in a letter

to subscribers dated

May 1, 1968, announced

that berinning June l,

1968,

it would be published biweekly at a

vearly subscription price of $15.

In this

letter "Ramparts" described itself as follows:

"... the first national publication to consis

tently reveal the ribbon of lies supporting

America's involvement in Vietnam; we stripped

the curtain from America's 'invisible government'

by exposing CIA's unlicensed intrusion into our

domestic lives; we dared to write about the

applications of the Catholic Church's political

power: we warned, vears before the Kerner

report, that white racism was the base of

America's racial problems; we blasted awav at

the corroded institutions of Cold War liberalism.

" ' Ramparts'

is now the largest left-of-center

commercial magazine in the history of the United

States..."

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I. Burning of Draft Card

The cover of the December 1967 issue of "Ramparts"

magazine contains a photograph of four right hands each

holding a burning Selective Service card.

One of the cards

is a duplicate issued December 3, 1958 of the "Selective

Service Registration Certificate

for ROBERT SCHEER, 653

Britton Street, New York 67, Bronx.

The San Francisco "Examiner," daily newspaper

published in San Francisco, California, in its issue of

November 16, 1967, carried an article headlined "Ramparts

Editors Burn Draft Cards" which quoted "Publisher MARC

STONE" of "Ramparts" as saying the magazine cover is'a

very serious editorial statement,"

adding "there is a very

serious political crisis in this country and we want to

show that the bureaucracy of the Selective Service System

is unfair."

The San Francisco "Examiner" daily newspaper,

issue of June 13, 1968, carried a news article "3 Ramparts

Officers Before Jury in NY."

This article stated that three

top officers of "Ramparts" magazine were called to appear

before a Federal Grand Jury in

New York City, June 13, 1968

to testify at an inquiry described only as "having

to do with

Selective Service."

The article continued by stating that

there was speculation that the investigation dealt with the

cover photograph of the December 1967 issue of "Ramparts",

в в селе

which pictured the flaming draft cards of 3 top officials.

( Should be four officials.)

The August 24, 1968 issue of "Ramparts" magazine

carried a column entitled, "Apologia," which carried a

reprint of a news article

from the "New York Times" news-

paper, issue of July 18, 1968.

The article stated that

WARREN HINCKLE, III,

ROBERT SCHEER, DUGALD STERMER, and

SOL STEIN, all officials of "Ramparts", appeared before

a

Grand Jury in New York City on June 17, 1968, as a result

of the December 1967 cover of "Ramparts" containing a photo-

graph of four hands holding burning draft cards containing

the names of these four men.

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J. Threat to Subject's Life

ROBERT SCHEER telephoned the San Francisco FBI

Office on July 8, 1968, to state the receptionist at

"Ramparts" magazine, San Francisco, received the following

telephone message from an anonymous

male at 4:45 pm that

day :

Bor sched to now i ent

SCHEER stated that the New York City Office of

"Ramparts" had received a threat about July 3, 1968 and

he felt that this call resulted from a recent article in

"Ramparts" regarding Cuban refugees.

He said he had no

indication that the call was interstate.

The San Francisco "Examiner" newspaper, San

Francisco, California, in its issue of July 9, 1968,

carried a

news article headlined, "Ramparts Threatened

By Bombs."

The article stated that both the San Francisco

and New York City offices of "Ramparts" had been threatened

by bombs and "Associate Editor ROBERT SCHEER had received

calls threatening his life."

SCHEER advised SA CHARLES E. GALVIN on July 10,

1968, that no one had carried out the threat and that

he would immediately contact the FBI if any future threats

were

made

Records of the Bureau of Criminal Identification

and Investigation (CII), Sacramento, California, reveal

that a .25 calibre Beretta automatic pistol, serial number

415984, was sold to ROBERT SCHEER, 6468 Benvenue Avenue,

Oakland, California, on January 27, 1968, and that this gun

was purchased in Oakland.

Records of the Oakland Police Department were

searched October 17, 1968 by IC ROBERT L. GIBSON and it

was determined that

ROBERT SCHEER did not possess a permit

to carry a gun.

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Records of the San Francisco Police Department,

San Francisco, California, were

searched by JOHN VANNUCCI,

Intelligence Unit, San Francisco Police Department (SFPD)

on October 17, 1968 and no permit has been issued by the

SEPD for ROBERT SCHEER to carry a gun.

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The College Avenue Branch, Bank of America, 6201

College Avenue, Oakland, California, maintains a commerial

checking account for ANNE W. SCHEER or ROBERT SCHEER,

6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland, California.

This account

bears Account Number 5440 03178, and was opened on

September 18, 1967.

on March 19, 1968, an examination of bank records

pertaining to Items deposited in this account during the

period September 18, 1967 through March 5, 1968, was made.

Among the checks deposited during this period were the

following (All these checks were written payable to ROBERT

SCHEER.):

Date Deposited

9/18/67

10/2/67

10/12/67

10/18/67

11/1/67

11/15/67

11/20/67

Payee's Account

"Ramparts" Magazine

301 Broadway, San

Francisco, California

(Payroll Account)

"Ramparts" Magazine

Associated Students

California Western

University

"Ramparts" Magazine

"Ramparts" Magazine

"Ramparts" Magazine

Stanford University,

Student Organization

Fund

Amount

$507.80

507.55

500.00

507.55

507.55

507.55

:300.00

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by

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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loamed to

your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed out

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12/6/67

12/11/67

12/15/67

12/18/67

12/18/67

12/27/67

1/2/68

1/3/68

1/16/68

1/26/68

1/26/68

1/26/68

2/9/68

Payee's Account

University of California

Santa Cruz

"Ramparts" Magazine

"Ramparts" Magazine

Brandeis University

Fordham University

Agenzia Fugazi, Inc.,

Travel Agency,

. San

Francisco, California

The above check was marked "refund"

Associated Students

Los Angeles Valley College

"Ramparts" Magazine

"Ramparts" Magazine

"Rampurts" Magazine

(largely illegible)

but "McGill University"

appears on the check

University of Manitoba

(largely illegible) but

"Manitoba"

appears on

the check

"Ramparts" Magazine

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507.55

507.55

300.00

300.00

168.95

350.00

507.55

130,00

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91.75

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Amount

2/20/68

"Ramparts" Magazine

$473.80

2/20/88

3/5/68

University of Idaho

Albion College

Albion, Michigan

700.00

500.00

The above information is confidential and cannot

be made public except in the usual procedure following

the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum, directed to Mr.

AARON C. ORTON, Operations Officer, College Avenue

Branch,

Bank of America, 6201 College Avenue, Oakland,

Califomnia.

The original documents listed above are no longer

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The College Avenue Branch of Bank of America, 6201

College Avenue, Oakland California, maintains a Commercial

checking account for ANNE W. SCHEER

or ROBERT SCHEER, 6468

Benvenue Avenue, Oakland. This account bears account number

5440 03178 and was opened September 18, 1967.

On June 19-21, 1968, an examination of bank records

pertaining to items deposited

in this account during the period

larch 6, 1968 to June 21, 1968, were made available.

Among

the checks deposited during this period were the tollowing

checks payable to ROBERT SCHEER:

Date

Maker

Amount

2/29/68

3/15/68

3/8/68

3/29/68

3/29/68

4/1/68

4/10/68

illegible

4/17/68

4/15768

"Ramparts"

Magazine

"Ramparts! Magazine

$423.80

$423.80

Albion College, Albion,

Michigan, drawn on City

Bank & Trust Co., Albion,

Michigan

California Intercollegiate

$277.20

Press Association, Hayward,

California

Ramparts" Magazine

$350.00

$423.80

Check from IDA SCHEER,

2868 Bronx Park East,

New York City, drawn on

Manufacturers

Hanover Trust

Co.; New York City

$ 15.00

University of California,

Irvine, Calif., drawn on

United

California Bank

Bank of Province, city

$336.00

$700.00

unknown, Canada,

account #

00059-010-00-02003 (check

believed issued to "Ramparts"

Magazine)

(exchangerate

$644.00)

"Ramparts" Magazine

$350.00

"Ramparts" Magazine

$423.80

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SA WILLIAM E. HUGHES/mcn

7/8/68

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Iowa State University of

Science & Technology, Ames,

Iowa, drawn on Ist National

Bank, Ames, Iowa

Iowa State University of

Science & Technology

"Ramparts" Magazine

"Ramparts" Magazine

$500.00

$241.00

$473.80

$473.80

DAVID KOLODNEY, 6468

Benevue Avenue, Oakland,

drawn on Wells Fargo Bank,

University Branch, Berkeley,

California

$170.00

State University of New York at

Buffalo, drawn on Marine Midland

Bank, University Office,

burIalo,

New York

$196.90

"Ramparts" Magazine

$ 79.81

"Ramparts" Magazine

$100.00

"Ramparts" Magazine

$473.80

"Ramparts" Magazine

$170.00

CHRISTOPHER D. LEILLS,

108 El Camino Real, Berkeley,

California, drawn on Sumitomo

Bank of California, Oakland $250.00

"Ramparts" Magazine check

to Berlitz School of Languages

$261.87

"Ramparts Magazine

$: 27.45

"Ramparts" Magazine

$205.00

"Ramparts" Magazine

$400.00

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52423, was purchased

by ANNE WEILLS SCHEER made out to Berlitz

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U.S. Marshal, New York City

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School of Languages in the amount of $150.00, was refused by

this bank because of insufficient funds in the SCHEER account

Juring June, 1968.

The above information is confidential and cannot be

made public except in a usual proceeding following issuance of

a subpoena duces tecum, directed to Mr. AARON C. ORTON Operations

Officer, Bank of America, 6201 College Avenue, Oakland, California.

Each of the

"Ramparts" Magazine checks were drawn on

the Commonwealth National Bank of San Francisco.

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ROBERT SCHEER, 6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland,

California,

applied for a loan June 10, 1968,

at which time

he furnished the following financial information:

He has a savings account at United California

Bank, San Francisco, opened July 1966, with a low three

figure balance.

He

maintains a checking account at Bank

of America, 6201 College Avenue,

Oakland. He has a salary

of "1,000 per month and an additional income from lectures

and writings amounting to $8,000 yearly: He owns a 1958

Mercedes 220 sedan with no mortgage against it. He owns

a 1967 Saab stationwagon, which is being financed through

the First State Bank, San Leandro, California, with a

balance of $1,560. His mother IS IDA KURAN SCHEER, 2868

Bronx Park West,

Bronx, New York.

JOHN WEILLS, 108 El Camino Real, Berkeley, California.

His home is mortgaged through American Savings and Loan

Association, San Jose, with a balance of $23,000 on which

monthly payments are made of $214. Second home mortgage

is carried through Central Realty, Telegraph Avenue, Oakland,

with a balance of $2,000 and monthly payments of $40. He

has Bankamericard 180-763-484 on which there is a balance of

$209 owing.

He has a Master Charge Card 3017-802-921,

on which there is a $300 balance.

The loan requested was

refused when SCHEER was asked for a copy of his latest

income tax return to be furnished, and SCHEER refused to do

SO •

The purpose of the loan was not stated.

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ROBERT SCHEER had a total income in 1966 of about

including

He had a total from nis position at marts

magazine,

and approximately $8,800 from his writings and

speeches.

IRS [JFK Law 11(a)]

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Mr. and Mrs ROBERT SCHEER have maintained a

joint checking account at the College Avenue Branch, Bank

of America, 6201 College Avenue, Oakland, California. It

was learned this account was transferred about September

20, 1968 to a checking account in the name of ANNE W. SCHEER

only. Deposits to this account have shown that ROBERT

SCHEER received a check for $100 from the University of

California at Berkeley dated July 19, 1968, which was

deposited to this account.

On August 2, 1968, he deposited three small

checks made out to IDA KURAN SCHEER; one dated July 10,

1968 in the amount of $65 from the ILGWU National Retire-

ment Fund, drawn on the Royal National Bank of New York.

Another check dated May 20, 1968 in the amount of $30 tr

IDA SCHEER was issued by the Health"and Welfare Fund, Knit

Goods Workers Union, drawn on the Chemical Bank of New

York:

On August 23, 1968, a check for $111.60 from the

US Treasury Department to IDA KURAN SCHEER marked Social

Security check was deposited.

On August 18, 1968, a deposit was

made for a

check of $110 from the

United States National Student

Association, 21st Congress account, drawn on the Union

National Bank, Manhattan, Kansas.

On August 30, 1968, a

payroll check

in the amount of $496.35 from "Ramparts"

magazine was deposited. On September 17, 1968, the

"Ramparts" check issued to Subject in the

amount of

$254.44 was deposited.

On September 16, 1968, a check in

the amount of $200 from NBC, drawn on the Morgan Trust

Company, New York City, and

issued to THOMAS HAYDEN care of

Liberation Publications, 5 Beeckman Place, New York, was

deposited.

On September

12, 1968, a payroll check in the

amount of

$496.35 was deposited.

On September 23, 1968,

a check in the amount of $400 issued to ANNE SCHEER, drawn

on the Fisherman's Wharf Branch, Bank Of America by ROBERT

SCHEER was deposited.

On October 18, 1968, a $100 check

from "Ramparts"

ANNE

magazine was deposited in the account of

SCHEER.

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July 29, 1968

August 9, 1968

September 26, 1968

October 14, 1968

October 22,

1968

The above information may not be made public except

in a usual proceeding following issuance of a subpoena duces

tecum addressed to Mr. AARON C. ORTON, Operations Manager,

Bank of America, 6201 College Avenue, Oakland, California.

ROBERT SCHEER received a check from "Ramparts"

magazine, July 31, 1968, in the amount of $200 drawn

on the Commonwealth National Bank of San Francisco.

also received a payroll check dated July 31, 1968 in

the amount of $517.90 from "Ramparts" magazine. He

received a check August 13, 1968 in the amount of $300

from "Ramparts" magazine.

Each of these checks was drawn

on the Commonwealth Natimal Bank, San Francisco.

SF T-10

August 27, 1968

The above information may not be made public

except in a usual proceeding following issuance of a

subpoena duces tecum addressed to Mr. DON FAZACKERELY,

Commonwealth National Bank, Montgomery and Sacramento

Streets, San Francisco.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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Records of Bank of America, Fisherman's Wharf

Branch, 330 Bay Street, San Francisco, California,

reflect that account number 06780-00074 was opered

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

Francisco, on September 20, 1968. Deposits to

this

account are as follows:

September 20, 1968

September 20, 1968

September 27, 1968

October 3, 1968

1 check for $100 dated

September 17, 1968, from

U. S. National Student

Association,

Washington,

D. C., to ROBERT SCHEER

drawn on Riggs National

Bank, Washington, D. C.

1 check for $446.35 to

ROBERT SCHEER from "Ramparts"

Magazine drawn on First

Western Bank, Main Office,

San Francisco, California

Deposit of $350.00 composed

of check for $750.00 drawn

on First Western Bank and

Trust Company, University

Park Office, Irvine, California,

to ROBERT SCHEER, less cash

of $400.00.

(Recordak film unreadable so

maker unknown)

Deposit of $275.00 of a cashier's

check number 1543672 from

Crocker-Citizens National Bank,

Golden Gateway - Jackson Square

Branch, 625 Battery Street,

San Francisco.

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Deposit of $555.08 composed

of check for $655.08 less

$100 cash, drawn on First

Western Bank, San Francisco

(film has not yet been

developed) •

The above information may not be made public

except in a usual proceeding, following issuance of a

subpoena duces tecum addressed to Mr. RICHARD D. FULLER,

Bank of America, 330 Bay Street, San Francisco,

California.

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It was leanred that during October 1968, SCHEER

wrote a check for $300 and another check for $40, each of

which was refused by his bank because of insufficient

funds to cover these checks.

SCHEER also wrote a check

for $45.30 on November 21, 1968, to

the Hotel Chelsea,

New York City, which was deposited in the National City

Bank, 23rd Street and Avenue of the Americas Branch.

SCHEER reportedly was having trouble because some of his

pay checks from "Ramparts!' magazine were not honored when

presented for payment. SCHEER also reportedly wrote a check

for $25 on December 22, 1968, made out to the Hilton Inn,

New York City.

SCHEER wrote

a check to United Airlines

(VAL) for $30, dated December 14, 1968 at New York City.

He also issued a check to American Airlines, Houston, Texas

for $25 on December 30, 1968.

He issued a check to the

Continental Hilton, Mexico City, Mexico, in the amount of

$35, dated December 30, 1968.

SCHEER made only one deposit of $148 on January

3, 1969, which was a check from "Ramparts" magazine drawn

on the Commonwealth National Bank, San Francisco.

SF T-11

October 31, 1968,

November 29, 1968

December 31, 1968

January 28, 1969

None of the

above information may be made public

except in a usual proceeding following issuance of a

subpoena duces tecum directed to RICHARD D. FULLER,

Operations Officer, Fisherman's Wharf Branch, Bank

of

America, 330 Bay Street, San Francisco.

ROBERT

SCHEER's checking account at Bank of

America, 330 Bay Street, San Francisco, California, showed

only three small deposits during April

1969 as follows:

March 4, 1969 - $50.00

March 18, 1969 - $68.00

March 27, 1969 - $180.00

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This account has been quite inactive during February

and March 1969.

• There was a deposit of $2500.76 on April

11, 1969 resulting from a telegraphic transfer of funds

from the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City to ROBERT SCHEER

from CYRELLY ABEL. As noted above, these bank records are

confidential and cannot be made public without a subpoena.

SF T-96

April 17, 1969

L. Passport Information

Files of the Passport Office, US Department of

State, Washington, D. C., were reviewed by SA DOUGLAS M.

BROWN on January 26, 1968 and reflected the following.

On January 28, 1966, Passport number G 41559 was

issued at the San Francisco Passport Agency to ROBERT SCHEER,

based on his application, January 27, 1966. SCHEER stated

he was born April 4, 1936 at Bronx, New York, was a writer

by occupation, residing a 2828 Milvia Street,

Berkeley,

California.

His last passport, number D 163804, was issued

February 5, 1963.

It was cancelled and returned to SCHEER

when the above application was submitted.

were identified as FRED SCHEER, born in Germany, May 5,

FRED SCHER.

His parents

1898, and IDA KURAN, born in Russia, April 24, 1900.

His

father was a United

States citizen, but his mother was not

a citizen.

He was last married in 1965 to ANNE BUTTERFIELD

WEILLS, born Eureka, California, March 14, 1942. She was

designated as the

person to be notified in an emergency at

the above address.

SCHEER stated in the application that he

planned to depart San Francisco via Japan Airlines

for a trip

of one month to Japan, Cambodia and Hong kong for Journaistic

purposes.

On November 29, 1967, SCHEER wrote a letter on

the letterhead of "Ramparts" magazine and signed the letter

as Managing Editor of that publication, which he sent to the

Visa Department, US Department of State, Washington, D. C.,

stating he had been invited to attend a cultural conference

in Havana, Cuba, in January 1968, by the Cuban Commission to

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the United Nations. He stated he found it necessary in his

position to accept this invitation and requested a visa for

this purpose.

The Department of State advised SCHEER by letter

dated December 18, 1967 that provided he would execute the

enclosed affidavit stating that he desired to attend the

conference as a professional resorter and would not par-

ticipate in the conference in any manner, his application

would appear to qually under existing regulations.

On December 20, 1967, SCHEER returned the affidavit

which was executed on that date before a notary public in

San Francisco.

On December 27, 1967, the San Francisco

Passport Office was authorized by the State Department to

validate SCHEER's passport for one round trip to Cuba.

The State Department files reflect that the passport was

so validated at San Francisco on December 29, 1967.

Miss MADELINE EBINGER, Clerk, Passport Office,

US Department of State, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco,

advised March 20, 1968

that her office received authoriza-

tion from the State Department,

Washington, D. C. on March

19, 1968 to validate the passport of ROBERT SCHEER,

STERMER and FREDERICK C. MITCHELL, all of "Ramparts" magazine

for one round trip to Cuba, each for journalistic purposes.

Cuba, can ton

DUGALD

STERMER is art director of

ip to cuba, can roa

"Ramparts" magazine and MITCHELL

a senior editor of "Ramparts".

Miss EBINGER expected SCHEER

to appear in the immediate future for this validation since

she stated he has been telephoning the passport office

daily for the past week to determine if the validation of his

passport had been authorized.

On April 16, 1968, ROBERT SCHEER was observed by

a Special Agent of the FBI to visit the Passport Office of

the State

Department in San Francisco, where he had his

passport validated for one round trip

to. Cuba. This was

confirmed by MADELINE EBINGER the same day.

Mrs. DOROTHY GIBBS, Passport Office, US Department

of State (USDS), Washington, D. C., stated on August 29,

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1968 to SE ROBERT P. LYNCH that the State Department wired

the San Francisco Passport Agency instructing,

"You are

authorzied to validate passport G 041559, issued to ROBERT

SCHEER of 'Ramparts! valid for one round

trip to Cuba."

Miss MADELINE EBINGER advised on September 18, 1968

that records of that office reflect that the passport of

ROBERT SCHEER was validated for one round trip to Cuba on

August 22, 1968•

She said she recalled that an unknown man

appeared at the Passport Office a few minutes before

closing time on August 22, 1968 and insisted that the

passport be validated that evening since ROBERT SCHEER intended

to depart that evening.

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II. AFFILIATION WITH SUBVERSIVE

AND OTHER GROUPS

Contact With Cuban Consulate

SERENA and ROBERT SCHEER were among the individuals

who had contacted the Cuban Consulate in New York City re-

garding a trip to Cuba.

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August 11, 1960

A. Fair Play For Cuba

Committee (FPCC)

A characterization of the

FPCC is cortained in the

Appendix of this report.

"The Daily Californian," a daily newspaper of the

Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley,

(UB), issue of September 22, 1960, identified ROBERT SCHEER

as Research Director of the Student Fair Play for Cuba Com-

mittee (SFPCC) on the Berkeley Campus.

The National Office of the Socialist Workers Party

(SWP) maintained a quantity of correspondence dealing with

efforts of the SWP to infiltrate and dominate the FPCC. This

material included the following notation: BOB SCHEER,

originally from N. Y. CCNY, was in SDA. Led fight to expel

YSL and told me that they called him a Stalinist.

political discussion he gave me that impression

they ve e

In a

too, though

he can attack Soviet Union before a liberal audience.

Either

in periphery of CP or thereabouts (influenced, etc.)."

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November 18, 1960

The SWP has been designated

by the Attorney General of

the United States pursuant to

Executive Order 10450.

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"The Daily Californian," issue of December 22,

1960, reflected that the SIPCC was formed at a meeting in

Berkeley, September 21, 1960.

This article stated that

amond the officers elected at this meeting was ROBERT SCHEER,

who was elected Research Director; RICHARD CURRIER, President;

and MAURICE ZEITLIN, Secretary.

The publication "Student Council," Volume 1, Number

1, dated November

4, 1960, declared that this publication

constituted the first issue of the "Student Council," FPCC

newsletter, and that this publication would be a bi-monthly

report concerning Cuba and

the activities of the newly organized

Student Council chapters. The publication on page one

reported that under the leadership of RICHARD CURRIER and

ROBERT SCHEER, the

Berkeley Chapter had enlisted 90 members

and had held several successful meetings.

A source

advised November 18, 1960, that

an associate of RICHARD CURRIER described

CURRIER as new to politics and as being very

close to MAURICE ZEITLIN.

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of MAURICE ZEITLIN described him as an in-

dividual who formerly called himself a

Stalinist and who has expressed himself as

supporting Russia and Red China.

SF T-13

November 18, 1960

Another source related February 12, 1957,

that in September 1956, MAURICE ZELTLIN

evidenced interest in joining the wador

Youth League (LIL) in Detroit, Michigan,

but did not become active in LYL and, in

fact, repulsed LYl efforts to take over a

discussion group at Wayne University

which ZEITLIN led.

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The LyL has been designated

by the Attorney General of

the United States pursuant

to Executive Order 10450.

The "Stanford Daily" newspaper, issue of February

9, 1961, contained an article entitled "Bay Area Students

Describe Progress of Revolutionary Cuba."

This article

explained that on

February 8, 1961, there were a number of

persons who spoke on the campus of Stanford University,

Palo Alto, California, favoring "progress" in Cuba since

the revolution.

One

of these speakers was identified as

ROBERT SCHEER,

from UCB.

An FPCC faction meeting sponsored by the SWP was

held March 21, 1961, at 5931 Whitney Street, Oakland,

California.

ROBERT SCHEER was not present at this meeting,

but was described as one of the 14 students on the campus

of UCB who had signed a petition for a club of the FPCC to

pef then * students

be active on the campus.

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March 22, 1961

A meeting of the Bay Area FPCC (BAFPCC) was held

at

the Unitarian Church, Bancroft and Dana Street, Berkeley,

at which ROBERT SCHEER was not present; however, it was

announced that a forum on Cuba was taking place on the UCB

campus, at the

same time as this meeting was taking place

and that Mr. SCHEER

was one of two people responsible for

this Cuba forum.

It was stated that SCHFER was also writing

a book about Cuba in cooperation with another author.

SF T-15

March 29, 1961

A meeting of BAFPCC was held May 3,

Golden Gate Avenue,

1961, at 150

San Francisco.

This meeting was not

attended by ROBERT

SCHEER, but_an announcement was made

during this meeting that the Student Ad Hoc Committee

Against Intervention in Cuba, which is also known as the

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Bay Area Student Committee to Oppose Intervention in Cuba,

was formed on April 17, 1961. This new group was said to have

a 7-man executive committee, of whom six are members of the

FPCC. ROBERT SCHEER was listed as one of the members of

the executive committee. The secretary of the BAFPCC announced

that two members of the executive committee of the Student

Ad Hoc Committee Against Intervention in Cuba had contacted

the executive committee of BAFPCC executive committee,

because they wanted to work with and coordinate activities

with BAFPCC. It was recommended and voted that the entire

7-man executive committee of the Student Ad Hoc Committee

Against Intervention in Cuba be added to the executive

committee of BAFPCC.

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Observation of Special Agent

of the FBI on May 3, 1961

The

name of ROBERT SCHEER, Berkeley, California,

was maintained on the mailing list of FPCC, Room 329,

799 Broadway, New York, New lork.

SF T-16

September 24 and 25, 1961

"The Daily Californian," issue of December 12,

1961, contained a letter to the editor which upheld FIDEL

CASTRO and was signed "BOB SCHEER,

one other person.

B. Progressive Labor Party (PLP)

A characterization of the

PLP is contained in the

Appendix of this report.

A Free University party was held June 26, 1965,

at 20 East 14th Street,

New York City, attended by a number

of people including PLP members. Also in attendance was

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one BOB SCHEER, who stated he had just returned from Vietnam

and had been the only American at the conference held in

Indonesia.

SCHEER added that he had just written an article

for "Ramparts" magazine.

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June 28, 1965

C. W. E. B. Du Bois of

America (DCA)

A characterization of the

DCA is contained in the

Appendix of this report.

A demonstration calling for an end of the war in

Vietnam was sponsored jointly by DCA and Women for Peace

and was held April 17, 1965, at the Civic Center, san

Francisco.

The principal speaker at this affair was

ROBERT SCHEER.

SF T-15

April 22, 1965

SF T-18

April 19, 1965

Du Bois Clubs Support

A meeting of the San Francisco W. E. B. Du Bois

held at 250 Page Street, san trancisco, on May 24;

1966. This meeting was concerned principally with the

ROBERT SCHEER campaign for U.S. Congress.

It was agreed

that the Du Bois Clubs would support SCHEER and actively

campaign in his behalf. SCHEER was not present at the

meeting.

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to East Oakland, California, June 4, 1966, where they can-

vassed the persons who were registered Democratic in the

various precincts and requested them to vote for ROBERT

SCHEER for Congress.

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June 7, 1966

D. Students for a Democratic

Society (SDS)

A characterization of the

SDS is contained in the

Appendix of this report.

The November 1l, 1964 issue of "SPUR" contains

on page 10 a news item from Berkeley, California, which

reports a panel discussion featuring

ROBERT SCHEER, des-

cribed as

...arthor, correspondent for The Realist and

member of the New School.

The topic:

'What is to Be Done

(After the Elections)' was described as the fourth in a

series of such forums co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois

Clubs, SDS and the New. School:

"SPUR" is a self-described newsletter of

the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America.

A characterization of the

DCA is contained in the

Appendix of this report.

On December 23, 1964, a Special Agent of the FBI

obtained a handbill at the UCB announcing that the SDs,

the San Francisco New School and the W.E.B. Du Bois Club

would present a discussion on November 10, 1964, at Stiles

Hall,

Berkeley: at 8:00 pm. BOB SCHEER was named as taking

part

in this discussion.

FRANK MORSMAN, who is employed at the headquarters

Of SDS, 924 Howard Street, San Francisco, stated January 6,

1966, that SDS holds a weekly class which is a combination

lecture-discussion session on the ramifications of the cold

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war, with special emphasis on the role of Red China as it is

politically divergent from the Marxism of the Soviet Union.

MORSMAN stated BOB SCHEER is one of those who regularly

attends these classes.

SF T-21

January 21, 1966

An undated letter from the Chicago Peace Council

advertises a meeting to be held May Il, 196, as well as

a flver regarding a speech to be made in Chicago May 11:

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1967, by ROBERT SCHEER under the sponsorship of the students

for a Democratic Society (SDS) was received in May 1967.

This speech by SCHEER was to be made on the subject of

"U. S. - Involvement in Vietnam.".

SF T-22

May 18, 1967

A leaflet advertising a "teach In" on the topic

of "The Multiversity and the Empire" was scheduled to be

held at Me Millin Auditorium, 1l6th Street and Broadway,

New York City on 11/22/68 under sponsorship of Columbia

SDS.

SF T-23

November 30, 1968

E...

Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)

Meeting, May 24, 1966.

The Bay Area YSA and SWP sponsored an open meeting

which was held May 24, 1966

at Stiles Hall, Bancroft and

Dana Streets, Berkeley, California, to protest

against the

shooting of LEO BERNARD at the Detroit SWP office.

ROBERT

SCHEER was one of the speakers at this meeting.:

During his

speech, SCHEER stated that unity of the left is essential to

protect its members and to bring an end to the hysteria

sweeping the country.

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May 27, 1966

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June 2, 1966

A characterization of the

Bay Area YSA is contained

in the Appendix of this

report.

F. Vietnam Day Committee (VDC)

A characterization of the

VDC is contained in the

Appendix of this report.

ROBERT SCHEER participated in meetings, demonstrations,

etcetera sponsored by the VDC opposing US participation in

the Vietnam war as follows:

Function &

Location

Date of

Activity

Demonstration

UCB

Berkeley,

California

5/21-

22/65

Date

Source

Furnished

Activity

San

5/22/65

Speaker

Francisco

"Examiner"

Meeting, UCB

Demonstration

Berkeley

8/3/65

SF T-32

8/9/65

Participant

8/12/65

SF T-33

8/23/65

Participant

Demonstration

Oakland

8/21/65

Demonstration

San Francisco

8/25/65

SF T-33;

8/23/65

SA Of FBI 8/21/65

Observation

SA of FBI 8/25/65

Observation

Participant

Participant

Meeting, UCB

8/31/65

SF T-34

9/1/65;

10/14/65

Participant

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Meeting

Berkeley

Meeting, UCB

Meeting

San Francisco

Demonstration

San Francisco

Meeting

Berkeley

Meeting

Berkeley

Social

Berkeley

Meeting

Berkeley

Demonstration

UCB

Demonstration

San Francisco

Meeting

UCB

Meeting

Berkeley

Teach-In

UCLA, LOS

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Demonstration

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9/23/65

9/25/65

9/26/65

9/26/65

10/2/65

10/4/65

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9/3/65

SF T-3.5

9/27/65

SF T-36

9/24/65

SF T-37;

9/24/65

SA Of FBI 10/5/65

SF T-35

9/30/65

SF T-38

2/15/66

SF T-35

10/6/65

SF T-35

2/14/66

Speaker

Participant

Participant

Speaker

Participant

Participant

Participant

Speaker

Participant

Speaker

10/15-

16/65

10/17/65

11/2/65

11/11/65

11/12/65

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Observation 16/65

SA of FBI 10/17/65

Observation

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2/15/66

SF T-35

2/15/66

Participant

Participant

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Speaker

11/20/65

SA of FBI 11/20/65

Observation

Speaker

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Anti-War

Convention,

Washington,

D. C.

11/25-

28/65

Demonstration

NAS, Moffett

Field, California

Meeting, UCB

Meeting, UCB

12/5/65

12/14/65

1/4/66

Meeting

San Francisco

1/14/66

Meeting, UCB

1/19/66

March and

Demonstration

Oakland

1/31/66

Demonstration

Oakland

2/4/66

Fund Raising

Social,

Berkeley

2/5/66

Rally, UCB

5/21/66

SF T-40

12/4/65

SAsof FBI 12/5/65

Observation

SF T-38

1/27/66

SF

T-38

SF T-40

2/15/66

1/13/66

SF T-15

1/20/66

SF T-35

SF T-40

1/24/66

1/24/66

SAsof FBI 1/31/66

Observation

SAs of

FBI

Observation

2/4/66

SF T-41

SF T-35

2/8/66

2/8/66

SF T-35

SF T-42

5/23/66

5/23/66

Participant

Participant

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

Speaker

Participant

Speaker

Participant

Participant

Speaker

The VDC held an emergency meeting October 4, 1965

to discuss whether to violate the Mc Carran Act, the Espionage

Act of 1917 and other espionage laws, at Room 155 Dwinelle

Hall, UCB.

There were about 200 persons in attendance,

including

ROBERT SCHEER.

During the meeting, SCHEER read

Sections

2387 and 2388 of the Espionage Act of 1917, defining

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the elements of the violations.

SCHEER then stated, "It

is time to risk treason.

We must totally disassociate

ourselves with the US Government.".

SF T-38

February 14, 1966

A large cardboard poster was observed at VDC

Headquarters, 2407 Fulton Street, Berkeley, California,

which bore the notation across its top,

"VDC Defendants

Committee - I will commit civil disobediance on October

15-16 with the Vietnam Day Committee and I am prepared to

be arrested in opposition to United States intervention in

Vietnam.

I am joining this committee to organize my

political defense."

There were a large number of names

handwritten below

this caption including

"BOB SCHEER, 2546

Geary Street, San Francisco."

SF T-37

September 28, 1965

A demonstration in opposition to United States

participation in the Vietnam war was held October 17, 1965,

at the Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco, sponsored by 12

groups and having about 3000 persons participating. The

now g000

concluding speaker at this program was ROBERT SCHEER, who

was introduced as a reporter for "Ramparts" magazine.

SCHEER vehemently denounced the United States action in

Vietnam and stated that it was a problem for the Vietnamese

people to decide.

SCHEER stated that the United States

rationalized its

killing of Vietnamese civilians by saying

that the Viet Cong commit horrible atrocities. SCHEER

said that although the Viet Cong may kill some civilians,

the United States Government's statements on their atrocities

are, on the whole, a lie.

Observation by Special Agent

of the FBI

The University Committee on Vietnam of the University

of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) held a teach-in at the

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Grand Ballroom, Student Union Building, UCLA, Los Angeles, on

Vovember 12, 1965• ROBERT SCHEER was one of the speakers

who talked in opposition to United States foreign policy

regarding Vietnam. During his talk,

SCHEER stated "The

Viet Cong is a party of peace and if I was in Vietnam I

would be on the side of the Viet Cong."

SF T-39

November 29, 1965

"The Daily Californian" newspaper, which is

published daily by the Associated Students of UCh, in its

issue of February 2, 1966, contained a news article which

described the

march

by Vietnam Day Committee on Congressman

COHELAN's office on January 31, 1966, in which ROBERT SCHEER

participated.

This article stated in

part, "According to

SCHEER, the primary goal of his campaign is not to dereat

his opponent but rather to engender support for the anti-

Vietnam war movement."

G.

Communist Party (CP)

Affiliation

SCHEER for Congress issued a press release January

19, 1966, stating that ROBERT SCHEER announced his candidacy

for the Democratic Party nomination for Congressman in the :

7th Congressional District of California. In his opening

speech, SCHEER called for negotiations with the National

Liberation Front leading to the withdrawal of American

troops from Vietnam.

SCHEER said,

"The United States

never have gone into vietnam, should not have stayed in ond?

should now get out." SCHEER

added, "The Johnson Administration

is waging an increasingly vicious war against the Vietnamese

people and this campaign will be aimed at halting it."

The SCHEER for Congress office, 2214 Grove Street,

Berkeley, California, issued a letter on

the letterhead

of this group pointing out that ROBERT SCHEFR was running in

the Democratic Party primary election in June 1966, for the

congressional seat presently held by JEFFREY CONFLAN. The

letter stated this challenge was being undertaken because

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Congressman COHELAN "has been completely unresponsive to

the concern of East Bay citizens who are opposed to

Administration policy in Vietnam."

It added that in addition

to the Vietnam issue,

SCHEER intended to put forward a "Radical

critique of the Great Society."

of time and money to help in this

eap in t

It also requested contributions

campaign.

"Endorsers"

of SCHEER for Congress were listed on this letterhead as

follows:

CARL BLOICE, Reporter

"People's World"

MARK COMFORT

Oakland Direct

Action Committee

MIRIAM CONNELLY

President

Bettermade Foods

Dr. J. RAYMOND COPE

CASSANDRA DAVIS

Fast Bay Organizing

Committee

RONNIE DAVIS

Director,

S. F. Mime Troupe

DON DUNCAN

Master Sergeant, Ret.

US Special Forces

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Poet

BILL FINN

Building Contractor

JOHN GEORGE

Attorney

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Dr. CARLTON GOODLETT

Publisher,

Sun Reporter

BARBARA GULLAHORN

Organizer,

Vietnam Day

Committee

ELLY HARAWITZ

Caseworker,

Welfare Rights

Organization

MORRIS HIRSCH

Professor of Mathematics

University of California

PAUL JACOBS

Writer

EPHRAIM KAHN

M. D.

ANN MARTIN,

Secretary,

Welfare Rights

Organization

MARILYN MILLIGAN

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California

ALAN MYERSON,

Director.

The Committee

ROSCOE PROCTOR

ILWU, Warehousemen's

Union, Local H6

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GERALD ROSENFIELD

M. D.

HARRY RUBIN

Professor of Molecular

BIOLOgY,

University of California

JERRY RUBIN,

Organizer

Vietnam Day Committee

Rev: SAM SMITH,

Chairman,

Welfare Rights Organization

RICHARD STROMAN

Professor of Zoology

University of California

JESSICA MITFORD TREUHAFT

Writer

STEVE WEISSMAN,

Organizer

Free Speech Movement

TOM WINNETT

Owner

Eybate Lecture Notes

REGINALD ZELNICK

Professor of History

University of Califorria

ROBERT EVANS

Teacher

HOWARD JETER

Teacher

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SF T-25

January 28, 1966

CARL BLOICE attended a CP National Youth

Cadre Conference which was held September

9-12, 1965, on a farm located in Northern

Indiana.

SF T-43

September 15, 1965

He also is a staff writer for the PW

newspaper.

Special Agents of the FBI observed MARK

COMFORT as he actively participated in

nine demonstrations sponsored by the Ad

Hoc Committee to End Discrimination (AHCED)

at the Oakland Tribune Building,

13th and

Franklin

Streets, Oakland, California,

during the period November 21, 1964 through

January 30, 1965•

MARK COMFORT left San Francisco for New

York City, April 8, 1965, by automobile

with MORT

SCHEER, West Coast Organizer

of Progressive Labor Movement (PLM), to

attend the PLM Convention which was

be held in New York City, April 15-18,

1965, as a guest of the West Coast PIM.

SF T-44

April 9, 1965

Characterizations of the

AHCED and Progressive Labor

Party (PLP), formerly known

as PLM, are

contained in the

Appendix.

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CASSANDRA DAVIS and ELLEN HARAWITZ

attended

a meeting of the Bay Area CP Youth Clubs,

which was held January 29, 1966, at 1005

53rd Street, Oakland, California.

This

meeting was

addressed by GUS HALL, National

Leader of the CP, USA from New York City.

SE T-45

January 31, 1966

A meeting of the Dewey Davis Branch of the

Professional Section, San Francisco County

CP (SFCCP), was held January 15, 1947, during

which Dr.

CARLTON GOODLETT was discussed.

The discussion ended with the conclusion that

even though Dr. GOODLETT did not attend many

meetings of this branch, he would be con-

tinued on the rolls of the CP because of the

amount of work' he did on the outside.

SF T-46

January 24, 1947

San Francisco "Examiner" newspaper issue of

June 13, 1963, set forth information that

that California State Senate Sub-Committee on

Un-American Activities had released a report

stating that Dr. CARLTON GOODLETT had visited

Moscow, Russia as a quest of the kremlin and

that his support of Communist causes was well

known.

FRANCES W. HERRING, Berkeley, California,

Women for Peace, was listed as a sponsor

of the National Committee to Abolish the

House Un-American Activities Committee.

SF T-47

October 24, 1963

A characterization of the

National Committee to Abolish the

House Un-American Activities Committee

is contained in the Appendix.

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Records of the Board of Elections, 400

Broome Street, New York City, reflect that

EPHRAIM KAHN, 255 West 9th Street,

New York City, registered as a communist

in 1936, for the 9th Assembly District

and the

47th Election District, New York

City.

SF T-48 advised on August 16, 1949,

that

he had been informed by RICHARD NUSSER,

leader of the CP at Tucson, Arizona, that

EPHRAIM KAHN, 522 East Tucson Boulevard,

Tucson, Arizona, was a CP member. NUSSER

told the informant that the CP membership

of KAHN must he kept secret and not even

made known to other party members.

When SIDNEY STEINBERG and ROBERT THOMPSON,

fugitive National CP functionaries, were

arrested near Twain Harte, California,

August 27, 1953, a search

of their effects

revealed that STEINBERG had the telephone

number of Dr.

EPHRAIM KAHN in his possession,

together with instructions regarding the

code name to be used in making contact with

this party.

When Dr. KAHN was

interviewed

about this

matter, September 3, 1953, by

Special Agents of the FBI, he declined to

cooperate stating,

"Generally speaking I do

not approve of FBI investigations."

The "Berkeley

Daily Gazette" newspaper, iSSUe

of November 16, 1965, contained a news article

headlined "Court Decision Brings Joy to

Communists Here." This article stated in -

part that ROSCOE PROCTOR at a press conference

November 15, 1965, admitted that he had been a

member of the CP,

USA since 1941, and was at

this time a member of the CP, USA National

Committee.

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JESSICA TREUHAFT was first reported as a CP

member in California in 1948, having an

understanding of Marxism and helping shape

local CP policy.

SF T-49

April 1, 1953

JESSICA TREUHAFT was identified in 1956,

at hearings of the Subversive Activities

Control Board, as Financial Director of

the California Labor School and as a CP

functionary, by witnesses WILLIAM FOARD,

DOROTHY JEFFERS, TIMOTHY EVANS and others.

The California Labor School

has been designated by the

Attorney General of the

United States pursuant to

Executive Order 10450.

"SCHEER For Congress" issued a leaflet headed "The

Following People Were Present at a Press Conference Announc-

ing The Candidacy of Robert Scheer for Congress, 7th Congress-

ional District": Beneath this heading were listed the names

of those listed on the Scheer For Congress Letterhead,

except for ANN MARTIN, ROBERT EVANS and HOWARD JETER.

The

following additions were noted:

FRANCES HERRING - Member, Women For Peace

ELIJAH TURNER - Congress of Racial Equality

SF T-33

February 4, 1966

A meeting of the Santa Barbara Club, Southern

California District CP (SCDCP), was held February 4, 1966,

at 1015 North Milpas, Santa Barbara, California.

During

this meeting a statement was made by WILLIAM TAYLOR, a

functionary of the SCDCP, that IRVIN LAUCKS of the Center

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for the Study of Democratic Institutions,

Santa Barbara, was going to donate $10,000

for a peace candidate and it was expected

that this money would be given to the

campaign run by SCHEER of Berkeley. TAYLOR

felt that some of this money should go to

a candidate in Southern California, if possible.

SF T-50

February 8,1966

The PW issue of February 12, 1966,

contained an

article headlined"A New Campaign Tackles Old Issues,"

written by CARL BLOICE. This article gives historical

background of the City of oakland, California and the

problems faced by the poor peodle in that city. It then

cites how DANIEL SIMON, M. D. had sent hundreds of letters

to Berkeley, California during the wekk of June 22, 1965,

pointing out that Congressman JEFFREY COHELAN had failed

to take a stand in opposition to United States participation

in the war in Vietnam, and enclosed cards addressed to

vietnan, anger

Congressman COHELAN appealing to COHELAN

to speak out

strongly in Congress for a cease fire and international

negotiations through the United Nations.

The cards also

stated that unless COHELAN took such action, he would be

opposed for re-election. By August 1965, there had been

750. cards processed and returned to Dr. SIMON. When

Congressman COHELAN failed to speak out in Congress opposing

US involvement in Vietnam, certain people began searching

for a candidate to oppose him.

ROBERT SCHEER agreed to

oppose COHELAN.

Some of hi, supporters left the organization

because SCHEER refused to shave off his beard and others

left the organization because SCHEER refused to exclude Communists froi

his campaign committee. The article stated ROBERT SCHEER

had the endorsement of the VDC as well as a sizeable portion

of the community, and was not centered among the college

students.

In early 1966, two functionaries of the C! discussed

the

forthcoming trip by

SCHEER to Southeast Asia and his

desire to go to North Vietnam. Both functionaries agreed

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that an effort should be made to assist SCHEER in gaining

admission to North Vietnam,

or, at least to arrange for him

to have an interview at the North Vietnam Embassy while he

is in Cambodia.

SF T-51

February 8, 1966

A meeting of the San Francisco CP Community

Youth Club was held December 18, 1965, at 2504 Sacramento

Street, San Francisco, during which it was announced that

in the Bay Area primary election campaign the party will

support ROBERT SCHEER for Congressman in Berkeley. It was

also announced that CARL BLOICE, a member of this

Cr. club,

and ROSCOE PROCTOR were serving

on SCHEER's campaign committee.

It was stated that BLOICE, PROCTOR and MICKEY LIMA, Chairman

of the Northern California District CP, are functioning as

a committee to plan strategy for the party's role in this

campaign •

SF T-45

December 20, 1965

A meeting of the East Bay CP Industrial Club

was held January 10, 1966, at 2716 77th Avenue, Oakland,

California. During this meeting, it was announced that a

Mr. SHEA, who is going to oppose Congressman JEFFREY COHELAN

in the 7th Congressional District, favors peace and not

a continuation of the Vietnam war. All members present were

asked to support Mr. SHEA.

SF T-52

January 20, 1966

A meeting of the Bay Area CP Youth Clubs was held

January 29, 1966, at 1005 53rd Street, Oakland, California.

The principal speaker at this meeting was GUS HALL from the

National Office of the CP, USA.

In his talk, GUS HALL

stated that the Party had

made

a decision in this district

that their chief emphasis would be on the BOB SCHEER for

Congress campaign, and as many youths as possible from all

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over the district would be involved in this campaign.

SF T-45

January 31, 1966

A meeting was scheduled to be held February 4,

1966, at 6115 Dover Street, Oakland, California, of the

East Bay communists who were to work on BOB SCHEER's election

campaign.

SF T-45

January 31, 1966

A source advised that CARL BLOICE had been released

from his job on the editorial staff of the PW to work full

time, on instructions of the CP leadership, in the campaign

Of ROBERT SCHEER for the 7th Congressional District.

SF T-53

March 2, 1966

a news article

regarding the defeat of ROBERT SCHEER in his canpaign

as Democratic

District of California. This article stated SCHEER received

a

total of 28,751 votes, while his Democratic opponent, JEFFREY

COMELAN, received 35,270 votes.

This indicates SCHEER Captured

45 per cent of the votes in this primary election. The newspaper

quoted SCHEER as

stating "From now on I'm the shadow Congressman

in this District."

He added that he would be a write-in candidate

for U. S. Congressman in the November, 1966 election unless

Congressman JEFFREY COHELAN stopped supporting the Vietnam war

and unless COHELAN faced up to the serious social problems

in the U. S. SCHEER added that he and his backers were "building

a political movement in this District and this campaign was

only the opening wedge."

During the interview, SCHEER said the cost of running

his campaign had been $35,000 to $40,000, most of it being

donated by "students, housewives, longshoremen and what-have-you,"

and none of it coming from his own pocket.

He said, "When I

started this campaign I didn't have a dime."

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The "PW" issue of June 18, 1966, carried a news

article headlined,

"Scheer Forces to Stay in Business."

This article pointed out that in the Democratic primary

election held June 7, 1966, ROBERT SCHEER captured 44.9

per cent of the vote

against the incumbent Congressman

JEFFREY COHELAN in the 7th Congressional District

of California.

The article quoted SCHEER as

stating he

and his supporters would continue the community battle on

issues and stated they planned to enter candidates

in the

race for municipal and county offices in 1967.

SHARON GOLD and JUDY DUNLAP were members of the

Fillmore Du Bois Club of San Francisco who were working

in the ROBERT SCHEER campaign as of February 27, 1966.

SF T-20

March 3, 1366

A social affair to benefit the SCHEFR for Congress

campajon was held March 19, 1966, at the residence of ROSCOE

PROCIOR in Berkeley, California, with ROBERT and ANNE SCHEER

in attendance.

SF T'-35

March 22, 1966

ROSCOE PROCTOR is a member of the National

Committee, CP, USA, and attended a meeting

of this body held December 3-7, 1966, in

New York City, during which time he was

also

selected a member of the National

Executive Committee, CP, USA.

SF T-54

December 9, 1966

A meeting of the Marin County Communist Party

Club was held March 23, 1966, at 315 Rydal Street, Mill

Valley, California. At this

meeting it was announced that

CARL BLOICE had been released from his job at the

since he is acting as publicity man for ROBERT SCHEER in

the SCHEER for Congress campaign.

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April

7, 1966

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A meeting of the San Francisco Du Bois Club was

held March 28, 1966, at 1830 Fell Street, San Francisco,

during which it was

announced that the club would hold a

mobilization April 2, 1966 to work on ROBERT SCHEER'S

campaign.

SF. T-56

March 29, 1966

A CP Youth Commission meeting was held March

29: 1966, at 2504 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, during

which there was a discussion of youth work.: It was stated

that the work of the youths in the ROBERT SCHEER campaign

shouldhave been and should now be pointed towards building

a Du Bois Club in Oakland.

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March 30, 1966

The "PW" issue of May 21, 1966 carried an editorial

which stated that in the 7th Congressional District the big

issues of the time were

"for peace,

for freedom, for labor's

rights, for a serious war on the grinding poverty

that

blights the lives of so many people in this District."

The

editorial then told that ROBERT SCHEER has joined all these

issues in his campaign to win the Democratic nomination for

Congress.

It concludes by urging the readers to vote for

ending the war in Vietnam, for seriously beginning the war

on poverty, for Negro representation and for labor's rights.

ROBERT KAUFMAN, a member of the East Bay CP

Industrial Club, stater August 8, 1966, that he had served

as labor relations man for ROBERT SCHEER during SCHEERS

campaign for Congress from the Ith Congressional District

of California.

SF T-52

August 19, 1966

CARL, BLOICE gave a party on Christmas Eve, December

24,

1966, at the residence of ROBERT SCHEER, Milvia and Oregon

streetss.

Berkeley, California, which was attended by about

60 persons, including ROBERT and ANNE SCHEER:

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A meeting of the East Bay CP Industrial Club was

held January 17, 1968, at Oakland, California, which was

not attended by

ROBERT SCHEER.

During this meeting, it

was announced that ROBERT SCHEER was going to run for the

US Senate on the Peace and Freedom (PFP) ticket in

opposition to the incumbent Senator THOMAS KUCHEL.

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CP members were urged to support the PFP slate of candidates.

SF T-52

January 24, 1968

A meeting of the Northern California District CP

(NCDCP) Committee was held January 20, 1968,

in San

Francisco, which was not attended by the subject.

During

this meeting, there was a discussion of the CP political

activities during which it was stated that BOB SCHEER

had indicated a willingness to run for the US Senate,

bụt

he wanted a definite commitment from the CP and other

organizations in the State, such as Black Panther groups

and PFP, that they would support him.

SF T-55

January 29, 1968

SF T-58

January 26, 1968

A meeting of the NCDCP Committee was held February

2, 1968 in San Francisco, during which MICKIE LIMA, CP

District Chairman, announced that he and ROSCOE PROCTOR,

District Negro Organizer, had met with ROBERI SCHEER and both

felt that the Party should support ROBERT SCHEER in his

candidacy for the US Senate on the PFP ticket.

SF T-55

February 5, 1968

A meeting of the Campus CP Club was held February

4, 1969 at Berkeley, California, during which it was

announced that ROBERT SCHEER had decided to run for the

Senate

and HUEY NEWTON from the Black Panther Party had been

drafted to run for Congress.

There were indications that

the CP would support both candidates.

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February 5, 1968

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Black Panther Party (BPP)

is contained in the Appendix

of this report.

On February 21, 1968, there was

a discussion led

by TERENCE W. GREENE in Oakland, California, regarding

recent meeting of the East Bay CP Regional Committee.

At this regional meeting, there was a discussion of whether

the CP should support the PFP candidates:

It was stated

that the youths on the CP Regional Committee favored the CP

supporting certain PFP candidates such as ROBERT SCHEER.

The

matter was

not resolved at this meeting.

SF T-52

March 4, 1968

The "PW" issue of March 16, 1968, carried a

news

article entitled "PFP, New Party to Set Aims.". In this

article it was stated

"Author ROBERT SCHEER announced last

week he was withdrawing from contention, although some

political observers say he may be courting a possible draft

movement" for the US Senate on the PFP ticket. The article

told of plans of the PFP to have a state-wide conference,

March 16-18, 1968, at Richmona, Calliornia, to pass a state-

ment of basic principles and to refine planks for a platrorm.

The "Berkeley Barb", a weekly underground newspaper

that features news of left wing groups, published in Berkeley,

California, in its issue of March 15-21, 1968, carried a news

article headlined "Differs But Will Fight for

Party." This

article dealt with the decision of ROBERT SCHEER not to

run for the US Senate on the PFP ticket.

SCHEER was quoted

as aying,

"I can be more helpful without being a candidate.

I want to work hard for PFP without being accused of-doing

it for personal advantage.

"I will also be free of the petty in-fighting that

goes on too much in PFP. I am

talking about PFP in Berkeley.

This does not apply to the rest of the state."

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SCHEER was also quoted as being critical of his

critics in the 1966 Congressional campaign as follows:

"Without those 1966 peace campaigns, there wolle

be no PFP today•

In this area,

my campaign gave rise

to CNP (Community for New Politics) and CNP formed the

base for PFP here. I made the motion in a CNP meeting

to form PFP•

"That Congressional campaign did give rise to

organization on the left and its continuity is visibly

demonstrated by the fact that we turned our main office

at 2214 Grove (Berkeley) into the headquarters of PFP."

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Community for New Politics

also known as

Committee for New Politics

"Communique for New Politics, Left-Out News",

published bi-weekly by the Community for lew Folitics,

2214 Grove Street, Berkelry, California, 34703, in volume

number one, carried an ar icle captioned,

"To. All Who

Supported Scheer for Congess". This article stated:

"Our campaign was founded on assump-

tions which are at odds with mainstream

American politics.

We are concerned with

issues and not personalities.

"We were committed

to development of

community dialogue and involvement and not

merely to electoral victory. The fact

that we obtained an unexpectedly large vote

does not change this commitment but rather

reinforces it.

"The Community for New

Politics' was formed to carry out this

commitment.

We are, in fact, in a very

favorable position to

implement a 'new

politics!.

The campaign produced strong

community ties and the beginnings of a

serious program.

If we succeed in new

politics it will serve as a much needed model

for American political life. If we fail

to seriously attempt it we betray not

only the larger community but our most

significant hopes as

"This will be a more difficult period

than that which preceded the election--it

requires all o' our support."

"--ROBERT SCHELF"

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Source advised that the "SCHEER For Congress

Committee" was an organization formed in early 1966, for

the purpose of supporting ROBERT SCHEER as a candidate for

a seat in the United states House of Representatives,

United States Congress, from the 7th Congressional District

• at to see one ren on

of California in the primary election of June 1966.

This committee was a group of diverse people formed

for the specific purpose of supporting and working for

ROBERT SCHEER in his bid for a seat in the United States

Congress.

The primary plank in this committee's platform

was opposition to the US involvement in the Vietnam War

and with a further and continuing involvement by the us

Government in the War on Poverty and civil rights.

SF T-24

July 31, 1967

A closed membership meeting of the Socialist

Workers Party (SWP) was held at 873 Broadway, New York,

New York, on June 30, 1966.

During this meeting one of the

members said he had attended a National Conference for New

Politics and this organization has a $100,000 fund.

Contributions from this fund were described as having

been made to different organizations and individuals,

including $1,000. to ROBERT SCHEER for his election campain.

SF T-59

July 14, 1966

ROBERT SCHEER has particpated in activities

sponsored by the Community For New Politics as follows:

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Function &

Location

Meeting,

Berkeley,

California

Meeting,

Berkeley,

California

Meeting,

San Francisco

Meeting,

UCB

Meeting,

Santa Rosa,

California

Meeting,

Berkeley

Meeting,

Berkeley

National

Convention,

Chicago,

Illinois

Meeting,

Berkeley

Meeting,

Long Beach,

Califorma

Meeting,

Berkeley

Date of

Activity

8/26/66

9/21/66

Source

SF T-25

SF T-35

Date

Furnished

9/6/66

9/23/66

Activity

Speaker

Participant

10/8/66

10/15/66

1/7/67

2/21/67

6/23/67

8/29-

9/4/7

9/13/67

11/3/67

4/1,1/68

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SF T-61

SF T-55

SF T-61

SF T-25

SF T-62

SF T-63

SF T-35

SF T-64

10/11/66

10/24/66

1/9/67

2/23/67

6/26/67

9/11/67

9/11/67

9/14/67

11/6/67

"Berkeley 4/12/68

Daily

Gazette"

newspaper

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A meeting of the CNP was held February 21,

1967

at Le Conte School, Berkeley, California. During this

meeting, ROBERT SCHEER reported he had recently visited

Europe where he had talked with BERTRAND RUSSELL and

representatives of the National Liberation Front (of North

Vietnam). He mentioned that BERTRAND RUSSELL was trying

to set up a war crimes tribunal, possibly leading to

agreeable solutions to the conflict in Vietnam.

SCHEER

said, in reference to the representatives of the National

Liberation Front, that they were of one mind in their deter-

ні регал п

mination to rid themselves of the yoke of colonialism once

and for all.

SF T-61

February 23, 1967

A meeting sponsored by the CNP was held at Berkeley

Community Theater, Berkeley, California, on June 23, 1967,

attended by about 2000 people including ROBERT SCHEER, who

was introduced but did not speak. The only speaker was

FELIX GREENE:

GREENE spoke of his recent trips to Red

China and to North Vietnam.

GREENE's remarks were favorable

to the communists in both China and North Vietnam. He

criticized American efforts, belitted United States activities

and did all he could to emphasize that the United States

should get out of Vietnam.

He also showed pictures of North

Vietnam, pointing out that the United States was bombing

hospitals, churches, women and children.

SF T-25

June 26, 1967

The first issue of "New Politics News", published

by the Convention Center,

151! West howard Street, Chicago,

Illinois, contained a call for a national convention-of

the National Conference for New Politics (NCNP) entitled,

"New Politics Convention on 1968 and Beyond," to be held

August

29, 1967, through September 4, 1967, at the Palmer

Stae and

nication identine the de concern teni

Monroe Streets

This

Committee as consisting of twenty-five individuals including

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"ROBERT SCHEER, Berkeley, Committee for New Politics."

This

publication stated that during the convention,

a four-man

panel would hold a discussion on

"Perspective for 1968.

ROBERT SCHEER was scheduled to be one of these panelists

and was also scheduled to address the convention on the

topic of "Perspective for 1968" on the evering of September

2, 1967.

SF T-65

July 10, 1967

A syndicated article by BIUCE BIOSSAT was

carried in the Berkeley Daily Cazette newspater, Perkeley,

California, issue of Seprember 12, 1967 jealing orty

with the NCNP Convention which was held August 31, 1967

through September 4, 1967 in Chicago. The only person

mentioned by name in this article was TOBERT SCHEER.

The remarks related to SCHEET are as follows:

"Perhaps the strangest performance

of the whole incredible

crama was that

of Fobert Sheer, managing editor of

Ramparts

magazine who last year ran a

strong, though losing, primary race in

California's Berkeley district as a peace

candidate against an incumbent Democratic

congressman.

"On one convention day,

Sheer

stood before the assembled delegates and

eloquently pleaded with the whites to

purge themselves of self-contempt and

self-hate.

to build bridges to other whites whose

sympathies must be won if white radicals

are ever to bring any real power to a

coalition with legroes. Said Sheer:

""You're helping

the black people and

the poor, but you can't talk to your own

parents

or to t kids you prew up with

you

on your block

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Scheer continued: "Our form

of dress,

sexual Mrores, many

aspects of middle class society

Begun to

¡are

boring. We go in for

artificial

pursuits

such as

Grow Up?

watching television and fixing

up our homes.

I find every

restaurant I eat in in San Fren-

Robert Scheer has his own cisco boring

differences with fellow members

"The hippies force us to re-ex-

of the New Left, he said here amine these things - even the

Friday.

New Left can Learn from the

In his talk to the City Com-hippies."

mons Club, he said the nation

for years had operated under

a theory which blamed com-

munism

as

"the devil'?

responsible

turmoil.

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for

all

world

listener

askeil:

"Desn't the New Left. hare

its own devil theory - agairst

libarals and Democrats?"

Scheer replied: "I have my

OW1

differences with the New

Leif because of

the fact that

I wear suits and have a job."

plaid

He wore a suit of muted

pattern

with

vest,

striped, button-down shirt with

a long collar and figured tie.

continued:

"Here

in

Berkeley the Community for

New Politics is generally beyond

the student stage,

over 30. 1

came to the New Left through

traditional politics. When I san

fol' Congress I received the CIC

(California Democratic Council)

endorsement,

though I didn't

recognize

meeting.'

many

faces at the

Scheer added: "I got the sup-

port from liberal people because

they were

disillusioned

with

liberal policies. I don't like stop-

iping troop trains or

picketing.

But I did

not

come. to

the

New Left

without coming

through liberal politics.

went

to the Democratic

Party convention of 1956. I vras

once on the national board

ADA

(Americans

of

for

Democratic Action). There is

a great danger in symbols.

There is a great number of

symbols that aic attarked and

deserve to be attacked."

(Indicate page, name of

newspaper, city and state.)

--5 Berkeley Daily

Gazette

Berkeley, Calif

Date:

Edition:

9-25-07

Daily

Author:

Editor:

Gerald . Beatty

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Peace and Freddom Party and

Black Panther Party

The "San Francisco Examiner," a daily newspaper

published

at San Francisco, California, in its issue of

October 3, 1967, carried a news article headlined "New

Peace

Party's Aim - Beat LBJ."

The article explained that

"the newly formed Peace and Freedom Party is out to beat

President Johnson in 1968 even at the expense of electing

his Republican opponent."

The article continued by saying that the new

Peace and Freedom Party was recertly formed in an effort

to promote peace candidates and had initiated a drive for

the 67,000 signatures needed to put a Peace and Freedom

Party candidate on the ballot.

ROBERT SCHEER was listed

as

one of the founders of the Peace and Freedon Party®

The

"Berkeley Barb," a weekly newspaper of the

left, published at Berkeley, California, in its issue of

March 15-21, 1968, carried an article headlined,

"Differs

but Will Fight for Party." This article explained that

ROBERT SCHEER's decision to withdraw as a Peace and Freedom

Party (PFP) candidate for nomination as U.S. Senator,

was

based primarily on differences with the PFP leadership

over how to conduct the campaign. SCHEER was quoted as

saying, "I think it is possible to conduct a radical campaign

and at

the same time reach out to bring people in.

I don't

agree that there is a conflict between educating people and

running a principled campaign.

There are purists in PFP who

will be talking only to small meetings of convinced people.

Some of the purists seem to want a small, left wing,

* 150 obt, led to haing asked

vegetarian-type party." SCHEER also objected to being asked

for loyalty to the PFP program before it had been adopted.

SCHEER said he expects to campaign very actively for PEP, but

stated his position with "Ramparts" Magazine also creates demands

on his time.

The article added that SCHEER said he wanted to

work hard for PFP without being accused of doing it for

personal advantage.

SCHEER also said he wanted to be free

of the petty in-fighting that goes on too much in the Berkeley PFP.

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SCHEER also claimed that his unsuccessful campaign for

nomination as U. S. Congressman from the 7th Congressional

District of California gave rise to the Community for New

Politics (CNP) and the CNP formed the base for PFP locally

CP Support for PFP

A meeting of the Campus CP Club was held February 4,:

1968, at 3048 Deakin Street, Berkeley, California, during

which there was a discussion of political activities. One

of the members noted that ROBERT SCHEER had decided to run

for the Senate and HUEY NEWTON had been drafted to run for

Congress, each on the PFP ticket and he suggested that all

Communist Party (CP) group members work for the PFP.

SE T=35

February 5, 1968

A characterization of HUEY NEWTON and

the Black Panther Party (BPP) of which

he is a leader.

are contained in the

Appendix of this report.

A meeting of the Southern California District CP

Committee was held March 2, 1968, at Hungarian Hall, 1251

South Andrews Place, Los Angeles, California.

During this

meeting, there was a discussion of political

activities and

the PFP•

The CP's position was that the PFP is an independent

party with a radical potential and that CP members in PFP

would be fighting for that position.

It was stated that there

were three PFP candidates running for the U.S. Senate in the

primary election and the CP would support ROBERT SCHEER and

would urge people to vote for him in the primary election.

SF T-30

March, 1968

Free Huey Newton Fund

A mailing of a letter was sent during May, 1968,

requesting moral and financial support for Free Huey Newton

The letter explained that an effort was being made

Fo circularize this letter door-to-door by volunteer Oakland

youths to gain community support in the effort to free HUEY

NEWTON (from his charge of murder of an Oakland Policeman,

and the attempted murder of a second Oakland Police Officer.)

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The letter stated fifty percent of the funds

raised would be used for the legal defense of HUEY NEWTON

and fifty percent would be used to mobilize the people of

Oakland, in support of the effort to free HUEY NEWTON, and

to stop police harassment.

This letter was signed by eleven

individuals including ROBERT and ANN SCHEER.

SF T-66

May 31, 1968

Oakland Seven Defense Fund

The "People's World" (PW) newspaper in its issue

of May 11, 1968, carried a half page article consisting of

an interview with BOB MANDEL, who had been arrested twice

for his leadership in anti-draft activities.

The article

stated that funds were being raised to defray legal costs

of MANDEL and six others arrested in the anti-draft activities,

and that contributions to the Oakland Seven Defense Fund

should be sent to 6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland, California

(residence of ROBERT and ANNE SCHEER) •

Support of HUEY NEWTON

The "Berkeley Barb"an underground newspaper

published weekly in Berkeley, California, in its issue

of October 25-31, 1968, carried a newspaper article head-

lined "Scheer supports Newton."

This article stated "Bob

Scheat endorsed Huey Newton for Congress last week." It

quoted Scheer as saying, "I ran against Cohelan in 1966

because the assumptions that he shared with the democratic

establishment and the powerful interests behind it led him

to support the war in Vietnam and to ignore the increasingly

desperate crisis in our cities, including the miserable conditions

right here in Oakland."

The

article pointed out that HUEX P. NEWTON was

running against JEFFREY COHELAN as the PFP candidate in the

California 7th Congressional District, COHELAN being the Democratic

Party candidate and the incumbent.

The article continued by

quoting ROBERT SCHEER as saying, "I have come to know and

respect HUEY over the past two years, and I am very pleased

to support him for Congress."

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Rally October 26, 1968

A rally was held at 30th Street and Oceanview Blva.,

San Diego, California, on October 26, 1968, attended by about

3500 persons, including ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts" magazine.

The principal speaker at this rally was STOKELY CARMICHAEL;

who stated that black people should arm themselves and stop

worrying about the law of this country, since this country

is not interested in black people. CARMICHAEL said that

when a black boy reaches 18 years of age, the government

would put a gun in his hand and send him off to fight the

nge,

yellow people who had never called him a nigger or abused

him in any way. Other matters discussed related to alleged

police brutality against Negroes.

SF T-67

October 28, 1968

STOKELY CARMICHAEL has been publicly

identified as Prime Minister of the BPP.

Forum, November 1, 1968

A Forum sponsored by the PEP was scheduled to be

held November 1, 1968,

at Whittier School, Milvia and Virginia

Streets, Berkeley, California.

nan of the Be.

This forum was to feature

BOBBY SEALE, Chairman of the BPP, and ROBERT SCHEER,

"Editor

of Ramparts magazine and 1966 peace candidate in the Democratic

primary in Oakland-Berkeley's Seventh Congressional District."

"People's world" (PW) newspaper issue

of October 26, 1968

Valley New Community Movement

A meeting of the Valley New Community Movement

was held November 2, 1968, at 13164 Burbank Blvd., Van Nuys

District, Los Angeles, California with about 300 to 325 people

in attendance.

ROBERT SCHEER was one of the speakers at this

meeting. SCHEER's statements were summarized as follows:

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America must pull out of Vietnam because it is

essentially wrong.

The dominant political institutions are

responsible for the U. S. involvement in Vietnam.

We must

reject the emotion of racial evil by studying the war in

Vietnam.

America is fundamentally racist and must come to

grips with itself about racism.

Relations are unwholesome between

white radicals and black panthers.

The Panthers are becoming

better organized and can reach more people than white people

can reach.

The Panthers wrote a book to obtain money with

which to purchase guns.

At the same meeting, GEORGE MURRAY, Minister of

Education of BPP also spoke condemning the institutions in

the U.S. as all being racist and working to keep the black

people enslaved. MURRAY stated that if the black people

wanted anything they had to get it with guns and force.

SF T-68

November 5, 1968

Benefit for ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

A benefit for ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, which was described

as

"an evening with the Defense Committee"

was held November 21,

1968, under sponsorship of the International Committee to Defend

Eldridge Cleaver, at California Hall, Polk and Turk Streets,

San Francisco, California, with about 400 people present. Ad-

mission to the affair was $3 per person and it was held

.,to

raise money to help prevent ELDRIDGE CLEAVER from being returned

to jail.

ROBERT SCHEER was listed on the letterhead of this

organization as Director. SCHEER opened the meeting with a

few introductory remarks to the effect that CLEAVER was being

incarcerated for his political views and activities.

The

principal speaker at this affair was CHARLES GARRY, Attorney

for the BPP, who described the CLEAVER case as political and

said every effort must be made to prevent CLEAVER from being

returned to jail.

He made a strong plea for contributions

of money to assist CLEAVER.

SF T-69, November

25, 1968

SF T-70, November

26,

1968

SE T-15, November 22, 1968

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Vigil at Cleaver Residence

The International Committee of Defend Eldridge

Cleaver issued a press release November 25

1968, calling

on the public to support a vigil at the residence of ELDRIDGE

CLEAVER at 2777 Pine Street, San Francisco, 24 hours each day

until CLEAVER was returned to jail November 27, 1968.

The

purpose of the vigil was to allegedly stop the San

Francisco

Police Department from "murdering" CLEAVER when they came to

arrest him to return him to jail.

This press release was

on the letterhead of the International Committee to Detend

Eldridge Cleaver, which listed ROBERT SCHEER as the Director,

one of three listed officials.

(Rather than return to jail

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER went into hiding November 26, 1968, and is

presently being sought as a fugitive from justice).

SF T-71

December 2, 1968

Meeting December 6. 1968

The "Berkeley Barb" newspaper, issue of November 29-

December 5, 1968, carried an advertisement of a meeting entitled

"Perspectives on the Left" to be held December 6, 1968, at

Columbus Elementary School, 1541 12th Avenue, San

Francisco,

California, under sponsorship of the Bay Area PFP. ROBERT

SCHEER was listed as one of the five speakers advertised.

ANN SCHEER attempted to contact KATHLEEN CLEAVER

at Black Panther Party Headquarters,

3106 Shattuck Avenue,

Berkeley, California, on March 4, 1969, in an effort to have

KATH CEN •

KATHLEEN CLEAVER immediately telephone ROBERT SCHEER in New

York City. It was not known whether this contact was made.

SF T-72

March

4, 1969

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III FOREIGN TRAVEL

Trip to Indonesia, February 1965

An American by the name of SHEA (phonetic),

who claims that he is an ex-professor of a California

University,

visited Japan about February 1l, 1965. He

went to visit the office of the National Harbor and Ports

Labor Union in Tokyo.

The Japan labor union put up SHEA

in one of their dormitories and had him live there until

three days ago, when he left Japan and went to Indonesia

on a ten-day trip. Before he left Japan for Indonesia,

he claimed that he strongly desired to go to Communist

China.

He was complaining to the Japanese labor union

officials about the discrimination problem in the U. S.

and made derogatory remarks about the U.S.

The Japanese

labor union official, after listening to his desire to go

to Communist China, asked the Chinese Communists now staying

in Tokyo about the possibility of SHEA's trip to the Chinese

mainland. The Chinese did not give a decisive answer. Although

SHEA is expected to return to Japan after his trip from Indo-

nesia, he may go to China directly from Indonesia. It is

said that SHEA had to quit his university job due to an

article he wrote after he came back from a trip to Cuba.

The article contained

some derogatory remarks about the

U.S. Government. ($)

SF T-73

February 25, 1965

The same source advised March 5, 1965, that the

correct name of the individual was SCHEER rather than SHEA. (S)

Contact with North Vietnamese

"Mr. ROBERT SCHERR, 2821 Dwight Way, Berkeley,

California," was described as being a correspondent of

NGUYEN VAN SAO and CU DINH BA. SAO and BA are representatives

in London of the North Vietnamese Communist weekly newspaper

"Cuu Quoc," which is published in Hanoi. SAO and BA live

and maintain their office at 35 Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead,

London N.W. 3. (S)

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The "Berkeley Daily Gazette" newspaper,

issue of February 23, 1966, carried a news article head-

lined "Peace Group Slates Scheer."

This article states

District, would speak under the sponsorhsip of the Berkeley

Women for Peace on February 24, 1966, at Friends Meeting

House, Berkeley.

It added that SCHEER, "an outspoken

critic of the Johnson Administration policies in Viet Nam,

is presently touring South Viet Nam and Cambodia, the latter

country at the invitation of Prince SIHANOUK." It continued

by stating, "Foreign Editor of Ramparts, author of 'Cuba -

Tragedy in a Hemisphere'

and 'How the United States Got

Involved in Viet Nam.'

SCHEER is also known for his associa-

tion with the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions

at Santa Barbara."

The article concluded by stating that

Women for Peace would vote on endenging SCHEER's candidacy

at this meeting.

An article appeared in "The Daily Californian,"

issue of March 1, 1966, which stated that ROBERT SCHEER

would give "an eyewitness report from Southeast Asia" at

8:00 p.m. at

the Berkeley Community Theatre, Berkeley,

California.

The article added,

"SCHEER is a candidate

for Congress in the 7th Congressional District and an

authority on U.S. policy in Vietnam."

The "Berkeley Daily Gazette" newspaper, issue of

March 1, 1966, carried a news article advertising the above

speech.

It also contained information to the effect that

SCHEER's travels during February, 1966, took him to Cambodia,

Thailand and South Vietnam.

"The Daily Californian," issue of March 4, 1966,

carried an article reporting the results of an interview

by this newspaper on March 3, 1966, with ROBERT SCHEER.

who was scheduled to speak March 4, 1966, on the campus

of UC, Berkeley®

This article quoted SCHEER as stating that

Oakland, California might be the next Watts and explode

(into race riots) because of the

"miserable conditions which

have persisted there for the last 25 years."

The article

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then stated that SCHEER described a recent trip he had

taken to Cambodia, which he described as "one of the few

neutral governments in the world, very jealous of its

prerogatives."

SCHEER said he visited Cambodia at the

invitation of its government and was sent there by "Ramparts"

Magazine, of which he is Foreign Editor.

He said he was

accompanied by STANLEY SCHEINBAUM, "an adviser to the Diem

Government in Vietnam from 1955 to 1961."

SCHEER asserted

that after exploring the entire frontier between Cambodia

and South Vietnam, he concluded that "Cambodia was not being

used in any significant way, to support the fighting in South

Vietnam."

any s expficant that

He explained that by any significant wey he meant

that Cambodia was not a "major staging area for the Viet Cong."

A CP contact class was held February 4, 1966, at

631 Redwood Street, San Francisco,-during which it was stated

that ROBERT SCHEER had left San Francisco February 4, 1966,

for Cambodia and there was a very good possibility that

SCHEER would also visit North Vietnam.

SF T-75

February 7, 1966

ROBERT SCHEER was invited to visit Cambodia by

its ruler, Prince SIHANOUK, and planned to leave for

cambodia with his wife, ANNE, about february 7, 1966.

SCHEER intended to report on this trip for

"Ramparts"

Magazine upon his return.

An unidentified member of the

VDC received a cablegram indicating that ROBERT SCHEER

was in Cambodia on February 8, 1966.

Officer CHARLES HARRISON

Berkeley Police Department

Berkeley, California

2/11/66

An item in the column of JACK ROSENBAUM appeared

in the "San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle" newspaper

issue of February 13, 1966, reading:

"Federal authorities

hear that ROBERT SCHEER,

candidate for Congress in the East

Bay opposing JEFFREY COHELAN, is in Cambodia, presumably

headed for Vietnam.

If so, they can't wait to pick up his

passport."

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ZYGMUNT BRONIAREK, the Washington, D.C.

correspondent for "Trybuna Ludu," Polish daily newspaper

and official organ of the Polish United Workers (Communist)

Party (P4PR) met on April 13, 1966, with ROBERT SCHEER,

Democratic candidate for Congress

from the Ith Congressional

District of California.

SF T-76

April 14, 1966

Trip to London and Prague, 1967

ROBERT SCHEER was in London, England, January 26,

1967, and claimed that he was engaged in writing an article

about the International Student Conference (ISC) for the

magazine "Ramparts" of which he is Editor. The article was

intended to be an exposure of the ISC and, in order to obtain

material for it, SCHEER was planning a two day visit to the

headquarters of the International Union of Students (IUS) in

Prague.

SCHEER was

seeking information on the passing of

financial assistance from the ISC to student unions in Africa

and Latin America. (S)

While in London, SCHEER met with FERGUS NICHOLSON,

National Student Organizer of the Communist Party of great

Britain, and with DAVID HOROWITZ, an American postgraduate

student at the London School of Economics, who has been closely

connected with the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation. (5)

SCHEER planned to leave London for Ameterdam on

January 27, 1967, and then to Paris before travelling to

Prague January 29, 1967. (S)

Shruary 2, 19%0g) source abroad

Trip to Prague

The "San Francisco Examiner" newspaper, issue of

February 24, 1967, carried a page l news article headlined,

"Ramparts Editor at Prague Meet" by CARL ROWAN. This article

explained that "a few days ago a brief, cryptic report out of

Prague, Czechoslovakia, was passed among a handful of top officials

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in Washington." The mport said that an editor of "Ramparts"

magazine had visited Prague and held "a long, secret session"

with officers of the Communist controlled International Union

of Students (IUS) •

The article continued by stating that "Ramparts"

is the magazine that exposed the fact that the Centrai

Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been financing the National

Student Association (NSA), which in turn had worked for

several years to prevent IUS from dominating the youth of the

world.

The article questioned what relationship there was

between "Ramparts" and the IUS.

ROWAN telephoned ROBERT SCHEER, Managing Editor of

"Ramparts" in San Francisco and SCHEER admitted that he had

met with representatives of the National Liberation Front,

political arm of the Communist Viet Cong, in South Vietnam,

and also with IUS officers in Prague "several weeks ago"

for two days.

In response to a question as to who controlled

IUS, SCHEER

replied,

"It is essentially an organ of the

foreign policy of the Soviet Union."

SCHEER emphasized

that he had visited IUS headquarters strictly for journalistic

reasons and that he was in Europe writing a story for "Ramparts"

on Bertrand Russell, " (94 year old British philosopher who

plans a Vietnam 'war crimes trial' of President Johnson)", so

he continued on to Prague to check the international implications

of the "Ramparts" article on the NSA.

SCHEER volunteered, "We

don't truck with Communism in Ramparts. We campare the U.S.

position in Vietnam with the actions of the Soviet Union in

Hungary.

Both are intolerable and we make no bones about it.

Any attempt to smear us at Ramparts is libelous and we'll sue.

I warned the same thing when they were muttering about me

being a Communist when I ran for Congress."

ROBERT SCHEER traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia

during the first week of february, 1967,

to contact the Inter-

national Union of Students (IUS) and was an official guest of

the Czechoslovakian Government with his lodging being furnished

at the best hotel in Prague.

SCHEER requested and received

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massive documentation for his article in "Ramparts"

regarding Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contributions

to the National Student Association, a United States

affiliate of IUS.

SCHEER's trip from West Germany to

Czechoslovakia was financed by the Czecosolvakian Government

and WLODOMIERZ KONARSKI, Vice President of IUS, was in

charge of this visit.()

SCHEER had a wide range of interviews with IUS

executives and was provided with some internal IUS documents.

While in Prague, SCHEER wrote an article based on material

which he obtained while in Europe and this article was later

neate use later.

published in "Rude Pravo" datelined New York. (5)

SF T-73

August 1, 1967.

English language weekly newspaper published at Oakland,

California, in its issue of September 1, 1967, contained

an editorial captioned, "Is BOB SCHEER An Anti-Semite?"

This editorial described SCHEER as Managing Editor of

"Ramparts" magazine and an unsuccessful candidate in the

primary election of 1966.

The editorial stated SCHEER had recently returned

from a trip to Cairo and Israel and then spoke at a meeting

in Berkeley, California, August 25, 1967, when he told his

audience about his trip.

In his speech, SCHEER claimed he had

been accused of being an anti-Semite and an anti-Arab because

of what he said on the matter of Arab-Israel relations:

The

editorial said that SCHEER referred constantly to the people

of Israel and the American Jews as the "Zionists" and uses

this term constantly when criticizing action of the Israelis.

The editorial continued by stating that SCHEER

accused the Zionists of being imperialistic, of being excess-

ively hard on the poor Arabs they defeated, of provoking the

war - in short, of doing everything the Arabs and the Soviets

accused them of and SCHEER attributed these lies to Israel's

subservience to the United States." In his speech, SCHEER

was further accused of using the term,

"American Grand Concourse

Zionists," the "Anti-Semites favorite euphemism for Jew."

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The editorial concluded by stating SCHEER

advised Israel and the Arab states to move to the left

and to seek to selve their economic and social problems

in a joint effort.

The editorial adds, "He apparently

forgets that the most left of the Arab states is Syria,

the country most responsible for the recent war in which

¡the Arabs were defeated."

ROBERT SCHEER, editor of "Ramparts" magazine,

San Francisco, California, was issued an invitation to attend

the Cultural Congress to be held in Havana, Cuba January 4-12,

1968.

The invitation was issued by JOSE VIERA LINARES, First

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

during November, 1967. It was not known whether SCHEER would

attend this congress.

SF T-77

November 24, 1967

The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations instructed

the Cuban Mission to the United Nations to extend an invitation

to ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts" to attend the Havana Cultural

Congress as a reporter.

SF T-78

November 16, 1967

A source who maintains contact with

numerous Cuban news media and is

familiar with Cuban political matters,

advised the Cultural Congress of Havana

was scheduled for January 4-11, 1968, at

Havana, Cuba. It was held at the Havana Libre

Hotel, Havana, under the auspices of the

National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, the

Afro-Asian-Latin American Peoples' Solidarity

Organization and the Cuban Preparatory Committee.

The purpose of the congress was to obtain unity

of action in the anti-imperialist fight and in

the defense of the cultural nucleus of each

country.

SF T-79

January, 1968

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On January 16, 1968, T-80 reported the

passenger Manifest of Cuban Aviation Company flight $465

from Mexico, D.F. to Havana, Cuba, on January 5, 1968,

listed ROBERT SCHEER as passenger

#35.

He was the bearer

of U.S. Passport #0041559,

and had a

Cuban courtesy tourist

visa.

He was destined to

the Hotel Nacional, Havana, Cuba.

On January 16, 1968, T-80 advised the passenger

manifest of Cuban Aviation Company flight 464 from Havana,

Cuba, to Mexico, D.F. on January 15, 1968, listed ROBERT SCHEER

His destination

as "in transit."

On March 19, 1968, T-8l advised the reoords of

the Mexican Department of Immigration reveal ROBERT SCHEER

was issued migratory form FM-17, #2839698.

He was described

as a 31 year old male of North American nationality, married,

occupation journalist. He left Mexico, D.F. for Cuba on

January 5, 1968 and returned January 15, 1968. His departure-

re-entry permit was

#35.

ROBERT SCHEER arrived in Mexico City from Cuba

January 15, 1968, accompanied by two other persons who had

traveled to Cuba

to film a documentary on Cuban life for

educational television station KQED, San Francisco. SCHEER

had traveled from Los Angeles to Cuba on an unspecified date.

SCHEER was scheduled to depart Mexico for Los Angeles January

15, 1968 on Western Airlines, Flight 696.($)U

SF T-73

January 31,1968

ROBERT SCHEER traveled to Mexico City, Mexico,

February 5, 1968, via Western Airlines

and had accomodations

at the Hilton Hotel, Mexico City. (S14)

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JOSE VIERA LINARES, First Secretary, Cuban

Mission to the United Nationg, contacted an un-named

secretary to ROBERT SCHEER, editor of "Ramparts" magazine,

San Francisco, California, on January 29, 1968. During

this contact,

it was stated that VIERA had obtained an

appointment with FIDEL CASTRO in Cuba for SCHEER and

SCHEER was then seeking State Department permission to

have his passport validated for journalistic travel to

Cuba. Since SCHEER allegedly had been delayed by the

State Department and since SCHEER had political appoint-

ments running to March, 1968, he was attempting to make

an appointment with FIDEL CASTRO for March 15 or 16, 1968.

VIERA promised to help expedite this arrangement.

SF T-77

February 29, 1968

Records of Air France, New York, New York, revealed

that a man named SCHEER was travelling to Paris, France on

Air France Flight No. 042, departing New York City at 11:00 p.m..

July 13, 1967, in the company of a man named ANSARE, (probably

identical with JAMES MICHAEL ANSARA) • The records did not

furnish the first names of either SCHEER Of ANSARE nor any

information about a connecting flight out of Paris for these

individuals.

SF T-82

July 14, 1967

On August 13, 1947, MAURICE JOYCE,

member of the

Professional Staff,

Committee on Appropriations, United

States Senate, provided information that

JAMES MICHAEL ANSARA was included among

the group of ten persons whose employment

had been terminated by the State Department

under the provisions of the McCarran Rider to

the State Department's appropriation bill

which permitted summary dismissals of employees

considered to be security risks.

However, ANSARA'S

Department of State personnel file contains a copy

of a letter dated December 8, 1947, directed to

ANSARA which reads, "Your resignation from the

Department of State effective June 23, 1947,

hereby accepted."

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ROBERT SCHEER has recently traveled as

follows:

April 4, 1968, San Francisco to Seattle,

Washington, Vancouver and

Edmonton, Canada.

April 6, 1968, Edmonton, Canada, via Vancouver

to San Francisco, California®

aprld 1l, 1968, san Francisco to chicago, via Omana,

Nebraska and Des Moines, Iowa.

April 18, 1968, Chicago to Buffalo, via New York

City.

April 19, 1968, Buffalo, New York to San Francisco,

California.

April 21, 1968, San Francisco to Mexico City.

April 23, 1968, Mexico City to Havana, Cuba.

MaY 10, 1968, Havana, Cuba to Mexico City to

Los Angeles, California.

May 10, 1968, Los Angeles California, to Salt

Lake City, Utah.

May 12, 1968, Salt Lake City to San Francisco,

California.

SF. T-83

April 23, 1968 and

May 27, 1968

Angeles on SCHE, d9ght an open round trip ticket to tos

SF T-83

June 11, 1968

ROBERT SCHEER was observed by a Special Agent of

the FBI to arrive at San Francisco International Airport on

the late evening of April 6, 1968, and is believed to have

arrived on ar United Airline flight from Seattle, Washington.

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ROBERT SCHEER was reported to have contacted

JOSE VIERA LINARES, First Secretary of the Cuban Mission

to the United Nations, New York City, April 16, 1968, and

arranged to meet with VIERA April 18, 1968.

SCHEER then

planned to leave New York City by plane, the afternoon of

April 18, 1968. SCHEER was expected to fly from Mexico City

to Havana, Cuba, April 23, 1968, and expected to remain in

Cuba about nine

days.

SCHEER reportedly requested that

Havana be notified so that interviews could be arranged.

VIERA reportedly answered that SCHEER should have no problems,

and Havana would be notified of SCHEER's travel plans.

SF T- 77

April 16, 1968

The passenger manifest of Cuban Aviation Company

Flight 465, from Mexico, DF, Mexico, to Havana, Cuba, on

April 23, 1968, listed ROBERT

_CHEER as passenger 84•

was the bearer of United States Passport G041559 with a

He

Cuban courtesy visa.

He was destined to the Hotel Habana Libre

and carried one piece of luggage weighing 30 kilos (66 pounds).

SF T-84

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The passenger manifest of Cuban Aviation Company

Flight 464, from Havana, Cuba to Mexico, DF, Mexico, on May

10, 1968,

listed ROBERT

SCHEER as passenger 51. He was the

bearer of United States Passport G041559 and was shown to be

in transit to W.A. (possibly Western Airlines).

He carried

two pieces of luggage weighing 30 kilos (66 pounds).

SF T-84

May 14, 1968

The records of the Mexican Department of Immigration

reveal that ROBERT

CHEER, a United States citizen, was

issued departure-re-entry permit 1450 with which he departed

Mexico for Cuba on April 23, 1968. His passport number was

shown as G041559.

SF T-84

May 28, 1968

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On March 30, 1968, HEDWIG URBACH YAMPOLSKY,

Calle Rio Tigris 30-B, Mexico, DF, Mexico,

remarked that

she had heard that ROBERT SCHEER,

Editor of"Ramparts' magazine,

was visiting Mexico and she hoped he would contact her before

he returned to the United States.

YAMPOLSKY commented that

"Ramparts" was one of the few leftist periodicals she still

subscribed to and enjoys reading.

SF T-85

April 1, 1968

HEDWIG URBACH YAMPOLSKY is in contact

with associates of the American Communist

Group in Mexico (ACGM) •

SF T-85

April 1, 1968

According to SF T-86, the ACGM is a loose

association of a predominantly social

nature, of present and/or past members of

the Comnunist Party, USA, and their friends

associates who share

a common sympathy

for the international communist movement.

The "San Francisco Chronicle" daily newspaper,

San Francisco, California, in its issue of July 10, 1968,

carried an

item in the gossip column written by HERB CAN,

reading, "'Ramparts' Editor BOB SCHEER, in New York to

negotiate for the CHE GUEVARA Diaries

(successfully) was

surprised to find his wife, ANnE, there too.

She was en

route to Paris, France, and Henoi at the invitation of

the North Vietnamese to 'observe' the prisoner exchange."

ROBERT SCHEER contacted JOSE VIERA LINARES, First

Secretary, Cuban Mission to the United Nations (CMUN) , New

York City, on August 5, 1968, and told VIERA that SCHEER's

wife was then at the Hotel Algonquin in New York City. SCHEER

asked VIERA to contact Mrs. SCHEER and VIERA agreed to do so.

VIERA also said he had a copy of the original publication of

CHE GUEVARA's diary for SCHEER and would give it to Mrs.

SCHEER. ROBERT SCHEER said he would be in New York City

in about two weeks and would again contact VIERA.

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ROBERT SCHEER, Editor in Chief of "Ramparts"

Magazine, San Francisco, California, contacted JOSE VIERA

LINARES August 22, 1968, and stated

they had obtained his

approval from the

State

Department (for a round trip to

Cuba) ..

VIERA suggested that SCHEER travel to Mexico City

Cuba. SCHEER replied he thought it would be taking too

SCHEER recontacted VIERA later the same day to state that

the only plane to Mexico City was on Sunday, August 25, 1968.

He inquired if he would have any trouble getting the

Cubana Airlines plane and was told he would have no trouble.

SF T-77

August 22, 1968

On September 7, 1968, ROBERT SCHEER contacted

JOSE VIERA LINARES to state he had not received the

material VIERA had promised to get him and he wanted to

meet with VIERA that evening. SCHEER said he planned to

get

a plane from New York City that evening en route home.

SCHEER added that he hoped to get a Czechoslovak visa with

the purpose of eventually visiting Prague.

VIERA apologized

for not having delivered the promised material and agreed to

meet with SCHEER for drinks and dinner that evening.

SF T-77

September 7, 1968

ROBERT SCHEER VISIted the Passport Office, U.S.

Department of State, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco,

California, during the week of December 29, 1968, and stated

he did not travel to Cuba in August, 1968, as he had planned.

He said he had lost the letter he received from the State

Department telling him how to make his travel arrangements

and how to get his Cuban visa in Mexico City. Another letter

was given to SCHEER at this time. SCHEER said he now plans

to make the trip to Cuba.

Miss MADELINE EBINGER

Clerk, Passport Office,

U. S. Department of State,

San Francisco, January 2, 1969

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"The Militant", a weekly newspaper of the

Socialist Workers Party (SWP), in its issue of January 24,

1969, carried an article by PAUL MC KNIGHT entitled "Report

from Havana, Fidel's Speech on January 2."

In this article

the author described the celebration of the l0th anniversary

of the Cuban revolution which was held in Havana, Cuba

January 2, 1969. In describing some of the people who were

present, it was stated that ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts"

was in attendance.

The passenger manifest of Cuban Aviation Company

flight 465A from Mexico, D.F., Mexico, to Havana, Cuba, on

December 31, 1968, Listed Robert Scher as passenger #33.

He was the bearer of United States passport

041550 with

a Cuban tourist visa. He was destined to the Hotel Habana

Libre and carried one piece of luggage weighing 18 kilograms

(39.6 pounds) •

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The passenger manifest of Cuban Aviation Company

flight 464 from Havana, Cuba, to Mexico, D.F., Mexico, on

January 13, 1969, listed ROBERT SCHEER as passenger #109.

He was the bearer of United States Passport 0-041550.

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January 15, 1969

ROBERT SCHEER reportedly made a speech at the

Hemispheric Conference to End the War in Vietnam held recently

in Montreal, Canada.

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February 13, 1969

ROBERT SCHEER made appointment to have lunch

with JOSE VIERA LINARES at 2:00 p.m., March 12, 1969 at

the Delegates Dining Room, United Nations, New

York City.

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ROBERT SCHEER visited the Cuban Mission to the

United Nations, New York City, on March 20, 1969 in an effort

He is not believed to have

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IV• WRITINGS OF SUBJECT

ROBERT SCHEER is the author of a pamphlet written

for the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions,

which he later condensed into an article for "Ramparts"

magazine entitled, "The Vietnam Lobby."

The article purports

to show how various Americans worked to misinform the public

about Vietnam.

The persons whom SCHEER holds responsible

for misleading the American people are JOSEPH KENNEDY, Cardinal

SPELLMAN, ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR., NORMAN THOMAS, J. BRACKEN

NOR AN

LEE, General EDWARD LANSDALE, MARVIN LIEBMAN, and others.

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A feature article datelined Cairo, July 31,

1967, entitled, "Egypt"

which is described

as "A Special

Report from Managing Editor ROBERT SCHEER in Cairo"

published in the September 1967 issue of "Ramparts, was

magazine.

In this article, SCHEER tried to explain the

current situation in Egypt.

He laid the blame for the Arabs

losing the six-day war

to the Israelis on "cowardly

or traitorous officers" in the Arab Army.

The article also stated that many in the NASSER

Coverment say that most of the blame for starting the

Arab-Israel war should be charged to the Syrians for

having provided the Israelis with a pretext for attack.

The article stated the Egyptian people were not at this

time in a warlike mood and NASSER was doing his best

to discourage his people from warlike aspirations and

to encourage continuance of the Social Fevolution in

Egypt.

SCHEER concluded that NASSER must break with

the rightists in the Arab world and make his primary

commitment to the Arab

social revolution in order to

survive.

He concluded also that NASSER's most dangerous

enemy is the "Moslem Brotherhood" who could take control

of Egypt and become embroiled in another war in as little

as one year's time.

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The November 1967 issue of "Ramparts" magazine

contains a 13-page article entitled, "A NASSER

Thesis" by ROBERT SCHEEP. In this article, SCHEER

analyzes the

situation from 1952 to the

present, giving his recital of the relationship of the

and the six-day Arab-Israel war in June, 1967•

The article lays great stress on WASSEr being

unsuccessful in some of his ventures because while he

nationalized many businesses and industries and distributed

the proceeds to the poor, he allowed the Army to remain

an elite, privileged class which was not loyal to either

NASSER or Egypt.

SCHEER also blamed NASSER's failure

to develop a political party with its own aims set forth

for his lack of success in communicating with his people

and obtaining their full support.

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The January, 1968 issue of "Ramparts" Magazine contains

an article entitled

"Oil and

the Arabs (The Nasser Thesis:Part 2)"

This article states Researchers for this article and Part I

("Ramparts", November, 1967) include BOB AVAKIAN, JIM HAWLEY,

DAVID KOLODNEY and JOHN SPITZER."

The article states the thesis that the Middle East

is of paramount strategic importance to this Country" because

the Persian Gulf produces 27% of the world's petroleum and has

proved global reserves of 60%. In addition the Mideast is the

trade crossroads between Asia and Europe and an important cultural

bridge between Africa and Asia and the center of the Islam worla.

dition the important

The article explains that 27% of the oil used through-

out the world comes from the Middle East and, since oil is in-

dispensable to industrial and military potential it is no wonder

that continued control of this resource is a major focus of the

western powers.

It adds that if control of this oil is inportant

to the west it is absolutely critical to the Arabs, since it is

the only source of the cash needed to break out of

the cycle o

underdevelopment and poverty in which their countries are trapped.

It pointed out that the profits from the oil go to

the "wrongi

states, those with the least population (12% of the Arab population)

and therefore the least need.

The article stated the Arabs could

repay the total investment of western powers of $5 billion in

two years with the oil removed from Arab wells except for the

fact that Western Countries are in a position to force

the Arabs

to deal with them or to have no market whatever for this uit.

The article cited how Iranian

Prime Minister MOSSADEGH nationaliz-

ed his country's oil production May 1, 1951 and the U.S. pro-

ceeded to crush him so totally that the example has served as

chilling

model for other would-be nationalists - no major oil

producing country in the Mideast has dared to repeat MOSSADEGH's

attempt." The Western Powers were said to have accomplished

this by imposing, a total boycott of Iranian oil.

The article explained that the Baghdad Pact was an in-

tegral part of a global containment policy which was put' into

effect by the U.S. in the early 1950s but NASSER refused to a-

lign himself with it.

NASSER was said to be a threat to the

Western powers by being consciously and arrogantly expansionist,

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and by holding the position that oil in the underpopulated oil

producing countries must be the basis of the development of the

entire region. It stated that the U.S. response to NASSER was

principally by propping up the economy and military machines of

the monarchies while alternately mollifying through grants or the

withholding of grants to the more leftist tendencies as they appear-

ed in Egypt and other Arab regimes:

The article added Intensive

CIA operations even involved founding the American Friends of the

Middle East - a pro-Arab Organization in the U.S. - as well as

widespread meddling in internal Arab politics."

The article continued that Soviet support of the Arabs

began in 1955, which caused the U. S. to be more careful not to

cause an anti-Western Arab union to be formed that might topple

America's right-wing Arab allies. NASSER was said to have steered

clear of any major direct confrontation with the U.S. and "the U.s.

has never attempted to really clamp down on him."

Thus the Arab

revolutionary impulse, fearful of challenging the west, turned to

"challenging Israel as a Western tool" and condemned

"Israeli im-

perialism."

imperialism that was able to appeal to both progressive leftists

and traditional monarchies in the Arab world. In 1956 Israel

joined the British and French attempt to reestablish by force

Western control over the Suez Canal after NASSER nationalized it,

and Israel also supported the French in the Algerian war. To the

Arabs it seemed that Israel had aligned herself with the exploiters.

This signalled the Russians to begin helping the Arabs to get as

mary friends

as possible among the non-aligned: countrias even while

local communists in Egypt, Algeria and Syria were being jailed, Russia

feit that

the Arabs were moving to the left to justify Pussian

a were moving to the done

supporT.

The article said the social changesin Algeria and Egyft

were significant but also inadequate because

"they destroyed the

power of the traditional upper class without in any significart sense

passing power on to that very broad base of the Arab pyramid.

The

reforms in Syria and Egypt came about as a result of military coups

d'etat which placed men in power who were willing to introduce re-

forms.

The article continued by stating "The identification of

Israel-rather than the oil companies and their monarchies-as the

serious extension of imperialism has allowed Arab progressives to

play at revolution, through periodic anti-Israel tirades, without

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taking essential revolutionary action." In reference to the

six day Arab-Israel war the article stated the Soviets were clearly

unprepared to assess its implications," in reference to with-

drawal of UN troops from Gaza and Agoba.

continuously underestimated the emotional depth and political

intensity of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

It added that Russia

began immediately to rearm Eghpt and Sypin after the defeat,

specifying only that their weapons be better used.

The article stated "The Central Thesis of this essay

is that the Great Powers cannot be expected to be concerned, on any

consistent basis, with the interests and needs of the Arabs

and

Jews who live in

the Mideast, but are preoccupied with their

own prestige and security needs. It added that both the Arabs and

the Jews identify their opposition with the

nation of inperialisn

supported by the American oil companies.

The article added that "The Arab denial of legitimate

Jewish nationhood as the basis of Israel is the subject

of deserved

ridicule.

But that the mainstream of Zionism has, in like fashion,

denied the existence of a legitimate Arab quest for nationhood is

not commonly admitted. This factor has been of great significance

in the formation and

sustaining of Arab hostility towards Israel.

The Arabs will never be able to turn their energies from opposing

Israel to the development of an Arab nation so long as the Israelis

hold the existence of an Arab nation to be a threat."

viewed the drive toward Arai unity and independence as

a threat

to them.

ABBA EBAN conferred upon Israel the very nationhoot that

Israel denied to the Arabs.

The Arabs find this position most

difficult to accept when

the Jews deny them the same position.

The article

stated tht "Israelis must come to accept the fact

that

nationhood is an aspiration which some Arabs hold without being

conned into it by NASSER; and that an Arab State - if it became a

reality (as a confederation or a nation) - is not necessarily a

it on deration on the

threat to Israel."

The article concluded that "The Arab Nation and the

Jewish Nation are both legitimate concepts which can survive to-

rether only if they exist as part of the same social revolution

to meet the needs of the people of the Mideast."

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The April - May, 1968, issue of Ramparts Magazine,

lists ROBERT SCHEER as Editor

in Chief and carried a two page

article entitled

"peace' Candidates by ROBERT SCHEER.

In this article, SCHEER discussed the Vietnan War and Democratic

presidential candidates ROBERT F. KENNEDY (now deceased) and

EUGENE McCARTHY:

SCHFER was critical of each of these candidates

because they were not among the original protestors against

U.S. participation in the Vietnan 'ar.

The June 15 1968, issue of "Ramparts Magazine stated

that this issue marked the beginning of "Ramparts

fortnightly

narazine which will appear in the same format as it has

previously

appeared.

It stated that features planned for the first few

editions include (in part) several articles on the problems of

today's Cuba including an interview with FIDEL CASTRO by ROBERI

SCHEER."

The August 10, 1968, issue of "Ramparts"

carried a two-page article entitled, "The Night BOBBY

Died," by ROBERT SCHEER.

In this article, SCHEER stated

he was present at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles,

California with ROBERT F. KENNEDY on the evening of

Primary Election Day, June 4, 1968, in the Royal

Suite, while the KENNEDY campaign workers were waiting

for the returns to come in.

He wrote that he was also

in the Empire Ballroom while ROBERT KENNEDY was giving

his victory speech and while KENNEDY was shot about

12:29 A.M.

The September 28, 1968, issue of "Ramparts"

carried a feature-length article

dealing with the

Democratic National Convention in Chicago, which was

described as "a Ramparts special report" by staff members

and it named 23 persons including ROBERT SCHEER as

responsible. for this report.

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The San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper

published in San Francisco, California, in its issue of

March 3, 1969, carried the column of WILLIAM HOGAN entitled,

"World of Books: Eldridge Cleaver, Written on the Run."

In this article HOGAN discussed a

new book "Eldridge Cleaver:

Post-Prison Writings and Speeches," which was edited by

ROBERT SCHEER published by the book publishing branch of

Ramparts magazine.

The article continued by stating that

SCHEER compiled this book from pieces that appeared previously

in Ramparts magazine and from speeches delivered by CLEAVER

at various times.

The article concluded by stating that a

book entitled "Berkeley On 0 Dollars a Day," by ROBERT SCHEER

and his Ramparts colleague PETER COLLIER is presently under

negotiation with publishers.

V. SPEECHES AND TELEVISION APPEARANCES OF THE SUBJECT

July 17, 1966

A protest rally for persons jailed as a result of

Auto Row and Sheraton-Palace Hotel sit-in demonstrations

was held at San Francisco City Hall plaza July 17, 1966• The

crowd at the rally was estimated at from 400 to 1,000 people.

ROBERT SCHEER was one of the speakers and said that if

Covernor BROWN had not freed these sit-in demonstrators by

sand not tre the

election day, SCHEER would tell the people to march to the

jail housing

these demonstrators, rather than going to the

polls.

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Observation by SA of FBI

August 6, 1966

The August 6-9 Committee sponsored the Third Inter-

national Days of Protest, August 6-9, 1966, at San Francisco

Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco.

This demonstration numbered

about 2,500 people on August 6, 1966. One of the speakers was

ROBERT

SCHEER, who stated that the demonstrators should not get

discouraged, but should continue their picketing and demonstrating•

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September 7, 1966

The "Stockton Record" newspaper, Stockton,

carltornia, issue or september 8, 1966, carried a news

article headlined,

"Editor Attacks U. S. Policy in Vietnam;

Sees National Peril."

In this article it was stated that

ROBERT SCHEER had delivered a speech at the Raymond College

High Table, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California,

on september 1, 1966•

SCHEER maintained that the concept

of an international communist conspiracy was false and the

U. S. is mistaken in considering it a unified, ever-growing

force that can only be contained by force.

He stated that

the communist conspiracy is a movement that does not hold

together because of nationalistic interests. He cited

the Sino-Soviet dispute and the international squabbling

between satellite countries and the major communist powers.

He said the Vietnam conflict began as an internal dispute

and if the U. S. withdrew from the conflict this withdrawal

would reaffirm the communists' confidence in the possibility

of peaceful co-existence.

He concluded that if anyone is genuinely concerned

about American security, he is going to have to work to

reverse American foreign policy.

October 18, 1966

"The Guardsman," weekly student newspaper at City

College of San Francisco, in its issue of October 19, 1966,

carried a news article headlined, "Scheer Lectures on Involvement

in Southeast Asia."

The article stated ROBERT SCHEER spoke at

the College Theater to a capacity audience.

He was reported

to have reviewed the historical changes in Vietnam, the French

role in Vietnam affairs, and the limited policy set by President

KENNEDY of only sending 30,000 advisors as "technical aid only

for a limited period of time to prevent a colonial posture."

The article stated further, "In a summary conclusion SCHEER

said that if there is an international communist movement, it

should cease to exist, that there are hardly two communist

countries that coexist, that communism is in truth a form of

nationalism and that practically speaking, 'it does not exist.'"

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December 2, 1966

Discussion Unlimited, Incorporated (DU), sponsored

a meeting December 2, 1966, in the auditorium of Los Angeles

Trade College, 100 block, Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles,

with from 1,000 to 1,500

people in attendance.

The topic of

the discussion was "What Will the New Development on the Left

Be?"

ROBERT SCHEER from "Ramparts"

magazine, EUGENE GENOVESE

• from Rutgers College in New Jersey, and DOROTHY HEALEY from

Southern California District CP were the speakers.

HEALEY

spoke first, stating that the most important things for the

groups on the left to do today were to unite on common grounds

and to be critical on grounds where they cannot agree,

as well

as to give allegiance to the other 14 socialist countries in

the world. She described these countries as the hope of the

future.

ROBERT SCHEER attacked her bitterly, his main contention

being that he felt he could not even say he was a socialist

because

of all the crimes that are committed in the name of

socialism.

He said he could not align himself with other

countries in the socialist world because of the barbaric

deeds committed by some of these countries.

He led a vicious attack against the Soviet Union,

against the STALIN era,

against the crimes that were committed

in the Soviet Union against Jewish people and Jewish culture,

and against other religious people and intellectuals in the

Soviet Union.

He made reference to the two writers who had

been recently jailed in Russia.

In a rebuttal and question

and answer period the attack went back and forth, mainly

between GENOVESE and HEALEY against SCHEER for his anti-Soviet

Union position.

SCHeER constantly brought up hungary, stating

that the oppression that went on in Hungary is no different

than the oppression of the Untted States in Vietnam.

He also

said the Soviet Union is a sick society just as the U.S. is

a sick society, and he is quite sure that the workers

society are not much aware of or care about the relative

difference of the sickness.

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The PW issue of December 10, 1966, and December 24,

1966, also carried news articles on the above-described forum.

SCHEER's remarks are reported in the December 10, 1966 issue

as follows:

"Scheer,

who ran as a peace candidate in the

Democratic primary in the Seventh Congressional District,

winning

nearly 45% of the vote, spoke of the kind of

revolution he would like to see.

'Revolution is better

'but I am interested in

that rebevolution e si dead to borite society is

vicious....I want a revolution that means the right

of a man to control his own life.

Referring to Marxism, Scheer said, 'The theories

don't work.:

The working class is not getting poorer

and poorer.

"'It is true,' he said, 'that the New Left!

has no

ideology, (but because of that) it does not

follow that it should accept the old ones...Why is

there a New Left?

"'The old Left was tired, cynical, frightened.

LSD is more important than (considered by the 'old

Left').. The young people who have looked at the American

Dream and said it isn't so great have made a statement

mone

profound than anything the Old Left has

made '

ever

A characterization of DU is contained in

the appendix.

February 9, 1967

"The Daily Cardinal," student newspaper of the

University of Wisconsin, Madison,

Wisconsin, in its issue of

February 10, 1967, carried an article headlined, "Scheer Hits

'Mythology' of U.S. Anti-Communism."

This article stated as

follows:

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"'Anti-Communism is what holds the American people

together, not the Judaeo-Christian ethic,

radical

author Robert Scheer told 500 people in the Social

Science building Thursday.

"He argued that the United States is attempting

to impose on the Southeast Asian crisis the 'myth'

of a

monolithic Communism and the policy of contain-

nent' that developed out of the post-world war 1l

Eastern European situation 20 years ago.

1o situation 20%

"He said that America has become "so imbued

with the anti-Communist mythology' that it has become

the over-riding criteria for all, and especially

foreign policy decision-making. *

"He cited the investigations of philosopher

Bertrand Russell's Vietnam

¿War Crimes Tribunal!

which purports to show American use of fragmentatior

sombs: that are not effective militarily bur which

demoralize the population.

'And these bombs are

designed not so much to kill as to torture.'

"'What is frighteningly horrible about this whole

policy,' he said,

'is that it works.

It succeeds

militarily even where it fails politically.'

"He urged his listeners to support the Vietcong,

or National Liberation Front. given the fact that

they are the only ones standing up to the American

'intrusion'.

over there.'

"He said that it is not the North Vietnamese

who have

¡but us.'

shown "bad faith' in efforts to negotiate,

They have already offered concessions,

he said, even though it is we who are bombing them.

"Russian and Chinese foreign policies, before

and after the death of Stalin, he said,

"have

been

essentially conservative, and not aggressive.'

He

cited as evidence the Trotsky-Stalin conflict and

Mao Tse-tung's early differences with the regular

Chinese Communist Party apparatus over this issue."

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March 16, 1967

A meeting was held at Hospitality House, Balboa

Park, California, March 16, 1967, to hear ROBERT SCHEER talk

on the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).

He was introduced

as editor of "Ramparts" magazine.

His only comments concerning

the CIA were that the CIA was the "whipping boy" for high

officials of the U. S: Government. He indicated that if anything

went wrong with the policy of the high government officials,

they could always blame CIA for their failures.

In discussing the Vietnam war, SCHEER stated the

President of the U.S., along with other government officials,

were guilty of murder of innocent women and children.

SCHEER

then spoke of a trip he had taken to France and Belgium.

said he had talked to important officials in these countries

and gained the impression that these officials were opposed to

the war policy of President JOHNSON, particularly the bombing

of North Vietnam.

SCHEER alleged that there were more bombs

dropped in Vietnam than were dropped during World War II.

claimed that the reason the U.S. was using anti-personnel bombs

against the people of North Vietnam was because they did not

agree

with the U.S. and the use of anti-personnel bomb was of

a punitive nature.

SCHEER took the position of an independent criticizing

both the "Commie"

and "Bircher" elements.

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April 4, 1967

The "Yale Daily News", student newspaper of Yale

University, New Haven, Connecticut, issue of April 5, 1967,

carried an article relating that ROBERT SCHEER spoke at the Law

School Auditorium of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,

on April 4, 1967, explaining the principles of "New Politics."

SCHEER described

the "New Politics"

as a movement which seeks

to bring about a substantial change in American society.

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April 15, 1967

ROBERT SCHEER spoke at the rally of the Spring

Mobilization Comnittee Against the War in Vietnam which was

held April 15, 1967, at Kezar Stadium,

San Francisco,

California, with about 55,000 people in attendance•

SCHEER

remarked that General WESTMORELAND had stated that the

Vietnamese people would have to "bleed more" to learn they

had met their match in this war.

SCHEER commented that

despite United States' "intervention" in Vietnam, there would

be "other Vietnams"

as other rights groups and countries had

their own nationalist expressions.

SCHEER went on to say that

"other people will make revolutions" and, thus, the U.S.

would have to go into other countries.

"If other people want

communist revolutions, so be it" added SCHEER. Other speakers

at this rally urged immediate withdrawal of U. S. troops from

Vietnam.

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NATIONAD MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE TO END THE

WAR IN VIDINAM (NMCEWV)

Tho Spring Hobilization Conmittoo to Ind

the War in Vietnam (SMOLiV) was an ad hoc

orgainzation composed of sovoral anti-

Vietnam war sna poace groups

which organizod

mass rallies and marches in New York and

San Francisco on April 15, 1967, to pootest

United Statos involvement in the Vietnam waro

The SMCENV is now known as the Ntional

Mobilization Committoc to End tho War in

Viotnen (NICEWV). Who lostorn Mobilization

Committoo Against the lar is the Wost Coest

countorport of the NiChIV.

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The "Daily Utah Chronicle," University of Utah,

Salt Lake City, Utah, in its issue of

October 6, 1967,

carried a news

article entitled,

"National Perspective on

Vietnam issues," which announced that a program entitled,

Spectrum Vietnam, would be held in the main ballroom of

the

Union Building,

saturday, October 1, 196%, at noon.

This

would be a panel discussion with CARL OGLESBY of the Students

for a Denocratic Society and others. The article provided

the following background data:

"Scheer, a Political Science graduate

of City College of New York, was

appointed Maxwell Fellow in Public

Administration at Syracuse University.

Two additional years of graduate study

as a Teaching Assistant in Economics

and as

a fellow in the Center for

Chinese Studies at the University of

California, Berkeley, followed. He then

taught American Government at City

College of New York.

"Mr. Scheer visited Castro's Cuba in 1960

and co-authored with Professor Maurice

Zeitlin, CUBA: TRAGEDY IN OUR HEMISPHERE.

"He was appointed foreign editor of

'Ramparts Magazine' in '65, managing

editor in '66, and vice president of

the corporation in '67.

"In spring of 1965 and again in 1966 he

traveled to Southeast Asia, touring Laos

and Vietnam.

Findings of his trips were

published in the report HOW THE UNITED

STATES GOT INVOLVED IN VIETNAM.

"Scheer has been active in the New Politics

movement and is a member of the Board of the

National Committee for New Politics."

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The same paper stated that at 7:00 PM, October

7, 1967, Utah Senator WALLACE F. BENNETT and GALE McGHEE,

Senator

from Wyoming, would speak on Vietnam.

The "Daily Utah Chronicle," issue of October 18,

1967, carried a news article headlined, "Spectrum Chronicle

Debate," which stated that ROBERT SCHEER of "Ramparts Magazine"

was looking into the possibility of bringing a libel suit

against the

Detober 7, 19

"Daily Utah Chronicle" for using slanderous misquotes

attributed to him in the coverage in the Spectrum Vietnam,

October 7, 1967. This article explained that the night editor

of this paper rewrote

the story at a time when he could not

contact any sources, hence the inaccuracy.

The "Deseret News', Salt bake City, Utah, newspaper

issue of October 2, 1957, carried a news article,

"Spestrum

Tietnam, Question Unresolved.'

This article related that ROBERT

SCHEER described as Editor of "Ramparts' Magazine, attacked

the arrogant American myth that "we are always good guys

fighting on the side with angels with amonopoly on denocracy.

peace and freedom."

The article said "he contended the mood of communism

is now nationalism, not world expansion and that the Communists

are now more concerned with internal problems than presenting

a united front to defeat democracy."

The article added "Mr.

Scheer and Mr. Oglesby charged that the U.S, is supporting the

wrong side in Vietnam because of its economic interest.

real issue in Vietnam and other troubled areas of the world is

poverty, according to Scheer and oglesby.!:

A symposium on Vietnam was held October 7, 1967

at the University of Utah, Student Union Building Ballroom,

Salt Lake City, Utah.

The panel of speakers included a senator

from Utah, a senator from Wyoming, CARL OGLESBY, former President

of Students for a Democratic Society, and ROBERT SCHEER, Editor

of Ramparts magazine.

There were about 150-200 people present

at this meeting including at least seven CP members.

This

function was called Spectrum - Vietnam.

Following this meeting a social party and discussion

was held at the residence of one SUE GOODRICK in Salt Lake City

on October 7, 1967•

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Both CARL OGLESBY and ROBERT SCHEER were present.

The time was spent generally in questioning OGLESBY and SCHEER

by youths of the New Left who were attempting to find

themselves.

There were about 50 persons present at this

meeting including at least three CP members.

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Television, October 11, 1967

ROBERT SCHEER was introduced as Editor of Ramparts

and as spokesman for the New Left when he appeared as a guest

on the LES CRANE Show on television station KTTV, Channel 11,

Los Angeles, California, on October 11, 1967.

SCHEER stated

on this program that due to electoral procedure it would be

impossible to place a candidate on the ballot - that the

industralist and monied interests controlled the ballot system.

SCHEER said "we" had no money and because of time and other

factors, it would be impossible to obtain the thousands of

names to place an eligible candidate on the ballot.

He added

"we" would have to take over the polls. He claimed that in

order to make necessary changes in the present political

structures "we" would have to "take over" the establishment

in Washington.

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November 20, 1967

"The Fairfield Fepublican" newspaper published

at Fairfield, California, in its issue of November 21,

1967, carried

'Bought Out Society' in J. C. Talk.

an article headlined'" This article stated

"Leftist Calls U.S.

that ROBERT SCHEER, editor of Ramparts magazine, spoke

November 20, 1967, at the Solano College Gymnasium and

delivered a

blistering attack on what he termed the

"bought off society."

He decried what he termed an

"exploitive corrupt war economy fostered by a profiteering

business community."

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The article said SCHEER stated "We invoke the

devil

theory of communism to explain the reality of

desperate social revolution."

SCHEER concluded "Vietnam

is only the extension of this unhealthy American character-

istic, not an isolated example of mistaken policy. It is

an integral part of a policy of corrupt self-seeking

deception."

After explaining that MOBERT SCHEER visited

South Vietnam twice, the article quoted SCHEER as saying,

"I think we have to realize that the Vietnamese are indeed

fighting for their freedom - but their freedom from us.

They are nationalists trying to create a national revolution,

and they can't be explained away with a label."

SCHEER alleged that the United States was in

the Vietnam war to make a profit. He called for staged

withdrawal of U.S. troops over a period of years.

In reference to the domestic scene, SCHEFF warned

that

Sterner nuasures against dissent were

coming and that

President JOHNSON's talk about peace was a "cor job."

SCHEER said people were rioting in America because "they

have no legitimate avenue of dissent."

In summary, SCHEET

urged concerned youth not to become complacent but to

remain

aware of the problems and refuse to conspire with

liberal politicians who try to make dissent irrelevant

SCHEFF told the group, "Block the halls and block the

airports.

This may be one of the times when to behave

reasonably is to behave irresponsibly."

November 21, 1967

The "University of Washington Daily" newspaper,

Seattle, Washington, issue of November 21, 1967, carried ar

article

announcing that ROBERT SCHEER, editor of "Ramparts"

vagazine, would speak at the Hub Auditorium, November 21,

1967, under sponsorship of the Political Union.

The

article said that SCHEER, who is leading proponent of

the

New Left, served on the Board of Directors of the National

Conference for New Politics, which held Its convention in

Chicago.

It stated that SCHEER was currently odlaborating

with WARREN HINCKLE, also on the "Ramparts"

writing a book about the "Vietnam lobby".

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The "Seattle Post Intelligencer" newspaper, Seattle,

washington, in its issue of November 22, 1967, reported that

ROBERT SCHEER spoke to an overflow audience at the University

of lashington, Hub Auditorium, November 21, 1967.

The article

stated that SCHEER said it was arrogant for Americans to

decide what is best for the Vietnam people. SCHEER said

it was an "obscene argument that withdrawal of American

from Vietnam would result in a blood bath. He

claimed the United States was operating on a war economy

and suggested that our loss of pre-eminence in world

trade as well as in jobs which rely on military contracts

of train went any contracte

accounts for nuch of our reluctance

to pull out of Asia.

SCHEER predicted that 1968 may be the "last democratic

election" for this nation. He predicted that the far

left and the

far right would grow as Americans seek

alternatives.

SCHEER advocated taking the billions spent

on the Vietnam war and applying them to domestic problems.

He alleged that unless this is done, there would be more

a agains.

violence and more riots in American

cities.

December 8, 1967

"The Ram"

newspaper of Fordhan University,

Bronx, New York, in its issue of December 12, 1967,

carried a news article reflecting that ROBERT SCHEEP gave

6, 9967 ac

a speech December 8, 1967 at the Fordham University Campus

Center Ballroom before a crowd of 250. The article stated

that SCHEER said the United States should withdraw from

Vietnam and not worry about the fate of that country.

In speaking about the means of demonstration, SCHEER

was

quoted as saying

"Use your bodies imaginatively. Block

railway tracks

and government buildings.

Violence is the

only serious alternative."

with regard to opposition to

the war, SCHEER blamed the rowdy character of recent

demonstrations which have been blocked by the economic

and political power structure. He said "I support these

tactics out of

desperation, though I would like to see

the growth of a serious left to challenge the people in

power. "

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January 26, 1968

"The Dally Californian" newspaper, which is seli-

identified as being published daily by the Associated Students

of UCE, on January 29, 1968, carried a news article

entitled "Radical Groups Emphasize Need for Mutual Self-

Protection'.

This article described a rally sponsored by

MAPS held at noon on the UCB campus January 26, 1969, in

the

crowa in drizzling rain. The article carries summarius of

the speeches of numerous pople, including BETTITA APTHEKER

KURZEIL, a self-admiited Communist Party member, and ROBERT

SCHEER.

SCHEER:

The article contained the following regarding

"BOB SCHEER, Managing Editor of Ramparts

magazine, also spoke.

He began with a comment on

tle carnival mood of

the rally.

Roman Carnival

"'There is

sorething obscene or bizarre

about the Roman carnival attitude when seven people

"plaza and evangelists were singing and preaching

on the corner.

examples,' he said.

"'The United States is now fighting a war of

'They're saying "there are

certain things which we will not tolerate and we

will make examples of those who attempt them,"' he

continued.

"'And the war of examples in Vietnam

has been brought home,' he added.

"He strongly emphasized the fact that the

government will permit a type of false liberty so

that one feels free--as long as it does not intrude

on government policies.

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Intruding Struggles

"! Marines won't go to jail and the people

who sent them won't go to jail but we will.' Never-

theless s

he said, 'We must engage in struggles that

intrude.'

"'Most of us were not born to be revolu-

tionary.

But one becomes a revolutionary not out

of choice but when the situation demands it,' he

stated.

'The time calls for it now and we must find

solidarity in a spirit of CHE GUEVARA,' he concluded"

7:2

A leaflet issued by "Campus Stop the Draft Week

Committee" advertised a noon rally to be held Friday, (January

26, 1968) at UCB with six speakers, including ROBERT SCHEER

and BETTINA APTHEKER.

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Observation by SA of FBI

The "Berkeley Daily Gazette" newspaper, issue of

January 27, 1968,

reported on the rally at UCB, which was

held January 26, 1968, attended by about 700 persons.

This article quoted ROBERT SCHEER as follows;

"'We must switch to tactics which intrude,

which are effective.

We must act in the spirit of

a CHE GUEVARA because this is the time for the

spirit of a CHE GUEVARA.'

"'He must start to plan now for the next

Stop the Draft week,' the editor of Ramparts Maga-

zine

the

urged.

'We must seriously think of filling

jails because Stop the Draft Weeks must go on,

and if jail is the price to pay, we must pay it.'

"'Unless protest is effective, it is a

charade,' he said."

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Television, February 4, 1968

On February 4, 1968, POBERT SCHEER appeared as a

guest on a nationally televised "Firing Line" television

show at 6:30 PM, Pacific Standard Time, where he was

involved in a type of debate with WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY,

Editor of "National Review".

BUCKLEY stated ROBERT

Magazine,

the exact topic but in any case could not speak for

"Ramparts" since he is only one member of the editorial

board.

SCHEER then became evasive, claiming he wanted

a definition of "un-American" before he could answer

BUCKLEY. During this show, SCIER stated that "National

Review"

Magazine had maligned SCHEER when it stated he

traveled to Cuba in violation of State Department regu-

lations and SCHEEP requested a retraction be printed.

SCHEER did not state that he had traveled to CUBA illegally

in 1960 and legally in 1968, but such is the case.

SCHEER

was very glib but was very evasive in answering LUCKLEY's

questions and statements.

SCHEER's statements showed him

stongly in opposition to the Vietnam war.

Television, February 7, 1968

ROBERT SCHEER appeared on the Pat Michaels'

television show at 10:30 p.m. on KTVU, Channel 2, Oakland

on February 7, 1968.

During this appearance, SCHEER stated

he attended the Cultural Congress held in Havana, Cuba in

early January, 1968.

He said he traveled in Cuba via Mexico

City as an accredited correspondent with the approval of the

State Department and that he traveled alone.

The interview

related to SCHEER's work as managing editor of "Ramparts

Magazine."

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Television, February 23, 1968

ROBERT SCHEER was interviewed by BRANT FRAYNE

and PAUL SALTZMAN at the Expo '67 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,

in June,

1967, and the results of this interview were shown

on Canadian Broadcasting Company television network on February

23, 1968. Some of the points emphasized by SCHEER in this inter-

view are as follows:

"Ramparts" magazine, of which SCHEER is Editor, tries

to handle and to give some diversity of opinion in the mass media

of America.

It is an experiment in seeing whether American

freedom and democracy really works. Other magazines are locked

Into the establishment because of the funding required to start a

magazine and the income received from advertisers, while "Ramparts"

is probably the only large circulation magazine in America that

does not depend on advertising.

"Ramparts" made a decision to challenge the big

magazines and to turn to a secular monthly magazine two and a

half years ago (about January, 1965) and it no longer has any

connection with or particular

interest in the Catholic Church.

It is aimeda challenging the establishment and its readers,

who are primarily in the 15 to 40 year age group.

Ramparts" has been called a muckraker and

left-wing.

It is on the left of the political spectrum since

it opposes the war in Vietnam and is interested in removing the

ghettos in American life.

"Ramparts" is based as a left-wing

opposition to "Time" magazine but "Time" is biased toward the

establishment and toward maintaining the status quo.

"Ramparts"

has never been sued for libel or had a serious challenge to its

factual accuracy.

"Ramparts" has a small staff of only 30 and

has successfully challenged the other big magazines with exten-

sive advertising revenue

and has done a more factual reporting

job on the Vietnam War, its casualties, civil rights stories

and stories on such topics as the children of suburbia rebelling

against suburban community and its values.

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"Ramparts" magazine is largely staff produced and has

nothing to offer but the guts and freedom of its reporters to

report facts as they see them.

"Ramparts" does not edit the

reporters' articles for opinion or value of concept.

These

articles are only edited for size and possible emphasis for a

particular issue so that there would not be four articles on

Vietnam in a single issue, for instance. When "Ramparts" sends

a reporter to do a story it prints what the reporter writes

even though the Editor does not necessarily agree with that

reporter's viewpoint.

SCHEER feels that the United States is more

afflicted

with an extremely biased press because in the United

States we have the illusion of freedom and Americans are raised

to believe that we have

a free press while in fact the press is

controlled through "an interlocking directorate of big business,

big military and big government' that effectively manages the

news

so that it is not troubling or upsetting to their interests.

SCHEER beljeves that the honest reporting of news by

"Ramparts" is doing

"an awful lot of good" because a generation

is being raised in the United States that knows how to be free

for a change and "is not going to buy the nonsense that comes

out of Washington'.

The youths are asking some very searching

questions about American society and are not satisfied with the

usual glibness so they are willing to go on marches because

they do not buy these answers. This is a very large minority

of youths.

Most of the American soldiers in Vietnam have been

raised to believe that their country always does right and have

an implicit racism.

They realize that the Vietnamese do not

really share United States objectives. For instance "There

is a 650,000 man Vietnamese army that never does any fighting".

"It is very clear that the Viet Cong has considerable support

from the countryside and has done some very fine things in the

countryside."

There are some cracks in the brainwashing and some

disillusionment with the war in Vietnam even among

American troops.

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have taken those critical steps rather than go along with the

fighting.

It is not a significant number yet, but SCHEER

believes it is growing.

"We have to figure out whether the

United States is Rome on the rise or Rome in decay and hopefully

America's empire is on the verge of cracking up."

When asked if he could make a generalization about the

American housewife and American married life, SCHEER stated,

"The average American is drunk most of the time."

explained that the average American has a couple of drinks before

starting home and several more when he arrives at home.

The

cocktail hour is all about getting "yourself numb enough that

you can take your wife and kids and then you usually fall asleep

in front of the television."

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March 1, 1968

The "Albion Pleiad," Albion College weekly newspaper,

carried an

The article

stated SCHEER was

scheduled to speak on

the "relevance of

academe in response to cultural needs," but abandoned this

topic and instead dissected the speech given by Albion College

President LOUIS W. NORRIS to freshmen at this school in the fall

of 1967.

SCHEER said Dr. NORRIS'

speech stressed the importance

of vicarious learning and the central role of the "great

conversation." SCHEER said the "great conversation is a bore."

SCHEER stated that white middle class Americans want to make a

revolution without doing anything revolutionary.

SCHEER said

Dr. NORRIS stated in his speech "hippies" did not belong on

Albion's campus.

SCHEER replied to this "with these

ideas he

shouldn't be president of a university, and I wouldn't have to

make these statements if he hadn't given such a speech to the

freshmen."

He said that America can no longer engage in foreign

aggression in the guise of extending freedom." SCHEER concluded

his speech by stating that to alleviate these crises America

should dismantle the defense apparatus, turn to a peace economy

and get out of

. Vietnam.

One of the critics of SCHEER's speech was quoted in

this article as saying, "Some of what he said was admirable, but

he was so irrational and so boorish and had excruciating bad

taste."

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April 3, 1968

ROBERT SCHEER was one of many persons who was

present and spoke at the University of California, Irvine,

California (UCI), on April 3, 1968, when an anti-Vietnam

program was held.

No publicity was afforded this activity

in the local metropolitan newspapers and the "Anthill"

campus newspaper, published at uct, did not publish any of

the speeches delivered nor any quotes taken out of context,

but merely contained an outline of the program.

SF T-94, 10/16/68

April 17, 1968

"Iowa State Daily," which is a student newspaper

published at Iowa State University (ISU), Ames, Iowa,

carried an article in its issue of April 17, 1968,

headlined,

"'Ramparts' Editor SCHEER Keynotes 'Dissent'

Series."

This article stated that ROBERT SCHEER, editor

of "Ramparts" Magazine, would speak on "dissent, revolution

and the Democratic process" on April 17, 1968, in the

Great hall, Memorial Union, ISU, as part of a

series of

talks sponsored by the National Affairs Institute (NAL):

The article included background information to the effect

that ROBERT SCHEER received a B.A. Degree in Economics

and Political Science from the

City College of New York,

and then served as a Maxwell Fellow in Public Administration

at Syracuse University.

The "Ames Daily Tribune," Ames, Iowa newspaper,

issue of April 18, 1968, carried a news article headlined,

"ISU Dissenters Knock System.".

This article reported that

ROBERT SCHEER was the first speaker at ISU's "dissent"

series and spoke April 17, 1968.

The article reported

that SCHEER stated America did not need BOBBY KENNEDY

or GENE MC CARTHY, but needed a whole new political

ideology. SCHEER

stated "if liberals can't come up

with some alternative to the prevailing political

thought, the right wing is likely to do it instead."

SCHEER said "our basic ideologies are going to have to

be challenged if we are going to face and

solve our

problems."

He called particularly for critical

examination of the philosophies on which the United

States foreign policy is based, the attitudes behind

its welfare program, and the whole basis of its

political system.

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April 23, 1968

"The Spectrum," weekly newspaper of the State

University of New York at Buffalo, New York, in its issue of

April 23, 1968, carried an article announcing that a series of

talks by new leftists on the central issues of the day, would

begin April 23, 1968. ROBERT SCHEER was listed as one of the

speakers, noting that he had spoken at the University in 1967,

and was very well received.

"The Spectrum" did not carry a follow up news story

concerning SCHEER's talk, and there was no reference to SCHEER'S

plans in the Buffalo, New York, area in the local daily papers.

May. 11, 1968

The "Bozeman Daily Chronicle," newspaper, Bozeman,

Montana, issue of May 12, 1968, carried an article relating to

the speech of ROBERT SCHEER at Montana State University, May 11,

1968.

The portion of the article relating to ROBERT SCHEER reads

as follows:

"Robert Scheer,

31-vear-old editor of the New

Left Ramparts Magazine, who flew here directly from

Havana, Cuba,

said our simplistic reason for

intervention in Vietnam was the 'nyth of the

international communist conspirac also called

the 'Devil Theory.'

The Devil Theory has dis

integrated, whether our state denartment will

admit it or not, he saic.

"'This reality plays havoc with the most

cherished tenant of our foreion policy,' he

said.

cheer cited the squabbling between Russia

and Red China, and more recently between

czechoslovakia and Russia,

as evidence of

the disintegration of the international con-

spiracy.

He said that our foreign policy

should be humanistic rather than jingoistic.

Americanization of the rest of the world should

not be our goal, he added.

"Scheer said the United States should swallow

its pride and set out of Vietnam.

He said

it might be good for the U.S. to lose a little

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"The Exponent", student newspaper, Montana State

UnIversity, Bozeman, Montana, issue of May 11, 1968, carried

a news article bearing the headline, "Ramparts Iditor - War is

This article

stated that a Vietnam symposium

was held on saturday, May 11, 1968, during which ROBERT SCHEER

stated no deace or negotiations are possible unless the Unitec

States is willing to admit that the war in Vietnam is not primarily

a struggle between communism and democracy."

SCHEER reportedly

alleged that the state department's monolithic concept of

communism is the main reason that we are in that war.

stated "that the Viet Minh forerunner to the Viet Cong was a

serious struggle for independence and fought the French who they

considered as foreign aggressors.

Both Diem and Ky,

Vietnamese leaders, worked for the French and thus

the Viet Cong

consider them traitors to their people.

since the U.S. supports

Ky and formerly supported Diem, it was

natural for the Viet Cong

to fight against the U.s."'

SCUTER said "the U.S. should settle

for something along the line of the 1954 Geneva

accords to get

out of Vietnam."

SCHEER added that he thought it would be good for

the U.S. to lose face because we have become too arrogant.

Television, June 3, 1968

The "Berkeley Daily Gazette"' newspaper issue of June

4, 1968,

carried an article by MIKE CULBERT, Executive Editor,

which related that KIVU, Channel 2, Oakland, California, taped

a television show June 3, 1968, for viewing on that station at

20:30 P.T/ June 5, 1968, in which PAT MICHAELS Rampartuestioned

ROBERT SCHEER, "A new left leader and editor of

magazine" and

SCOTT STANLEY, JR.,

"Editor of "American Opinion!

magazine, major organ of the John Birch Society."

The article

stated that a surprise questioner from the audience during this

show was DAVID GUMAER, a 29 year old Chicagoan who infiltrated

the Du Bois Clubs of America for the Chicago Police Intelligence

Division and served on the registration committee of the National

Convention for New Politics, which was held in Chicago, Illinois,

during Labor Day weekend of

1967. - The article stated GUMAER

also testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

in Executive Session ir December, 1967. GUMAER

stated ROBERT

SCHEER was "completely surrounded by communists" at the New Politics

Convention.

"If you're saying

SCHEER

called GUMAER a

"fink". SCHEER said he is not a communist and

the communists he has known are "too conservative" for him.

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This newspaper account of the PAT MICHAEL's television

show on KIVU, Channel 2, was verified by former SA MARVIN

BUCHANAN, 2150 Franklin Street, Oakland, California, on June 19, 1968.

August 19, 1968

The agenda for the National Student Association

(NSA) Convention which was held at Kansas State University

(KSU), Manhattan, Kansas, August 11-26, 1968, stated that

there was scheduled a "discussion of the movement for social

change in America on both a theoretical and a practical level"

conducted by four individuals including ROBERT SCHEER.

An article in the August 21, 1968, issue of

the "Kansas City Star" newspaper stated that TOM HAYDEN,

former President of Students for a Democratic Society

(5D5), and ROBERT SCHEER, editor of "Ramparts" Magazine,

had both spoken at the NSA Convention. In this

regard, the article stated "despite the militancy

of their demands and

aggressiveness or their charges

of the JOHNSON-HUMPHREY Administration, at no time has

HAYDEN or SCHEER called explicitly for violence.

The

printed material appearing here maintains the same

guarded stance."

An article in the "Manhattan Mercury" newspaper,

said 'If students don't act at the (Democrätic

Natione convention, they must decide what their

reaction is going to

be when all their efforts for

EUGENE MC CARTHY are

swallowed up by a HUMPHREY machine.

If the American people are not left with a vote against

the war in Vietnam after this Convention, all the work

of the students and middle class, ali the efforts in the

primaries, all the fund-raising will have been in vain

and

the Democratic process will have failed."

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On August 23, 1968, NICK DELLERE, Del Mar

Rental Company,

Municipal Airport, Manhattan, Kansas,

advised that on the late afternoon of August

19, 1968,

ROBERT SCHEER was picked up by charter aircraft at

Municipal Airport,

Kansas City, Missouri, and was flown

to Manhattan, Kansas.:

On the morning of

August 20, 1968;

SCHEER was returned to the airport at Kansas City,

Missouri, by charter aircraft which charter flights

were arranged for and paid for by a representative of

NSA.

September 26, 1968

A meeting billed as "America as a Racist

Culture", sponsored by the Associated Students of the UC1:

was held

on September 26, 1968, with about 2,000 persons in

attendance, mainly students.

ROBERT SCHEER was one of the

main speakers talking on American imperialism, stating it

was exhibited through the history of this country and was

now being shown in Vietnam.

SCHEER criticized the California

Board of Regents for having refused ELDRIDGE CLEAVER the

opportunity to lecture at a class at the University of

California, Berkeley, California (UCB). SCHEER defended

RUEL P. NEWTON: Founder of the Black Panther Party (BPP)

(characterization to be found in the appendix), and stäted

that becuase of all of the problems there had evolved a

close coalition between the BPP and the Peace and Freedom

Party (PIP). SCHEER praised ELDRIDGE CLEAVER as the best

choice among the presidential candidates. (running on the PFP

ticket).

SCHEER said this is a racist society in which we

live and the government's efforts to "control" the black man

is causing opposition to the government.

He said we were

forced into the streets in Chicago and society blocked

our

demands.

SCHEER claimed "we must oppose that force."

At the same meeting, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, Minister of

Information of the BPP and PFP presidential candidate, also

spoke, condemning the racist pigs, the police, the courts,

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gun control laws and the racist power structure.

CLEAVER

recommended that everyone obtain guns and hide them so that

they would be available when needed.

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The PFP was legally qualified as a

political party on the California

ballot through the obtaining of

approximately 67,000 signatures of

registered voters.

November 14, 1968

"The Dartmouth", Dartmouth College daily newspaper,

printed at Hanover, New Hampshire, in its issue of November 15,

1968, carried an article headlined "Scheer provides sharp contrast

in symposia focus".

This article reported that a senior

symposium was held at Dartmouth College on November 14, 1968,

with five speakers participating.

The article began by quoting

ROBERT SCHEER, Editor in Chief of "Ramparts" magazine, as

stating "you must use the means at hand, which might mean

buring your ROTC building to challenge the institution".

The

article said

"the program climaxed with Scheer's appeal for

the students of the college to assert themselves by

challenging the institution that is manipulating your life".

SCHEER reportedly added, "the spots closest at heart are where

you can best challenge the manipulators. I suggest you get

busy at task".

He added, "even in the woods at Dartmouth,

where there aren't any girls, the elements for a confrontation

exist.

wouldn't believe it.

I told a similar group at Columbia this, but they

But look what happened".

the inson

stated that the audience applaused loudly at the conclusion

of SCHEER's plea.

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VI. WRITINGS ABOUT SCHEER

Human Events publication, Washington, D.C., in its

issue of April 8, 1967, carried a story headlined, "The Inside

Story of 'Ramparts' Magazine".

A portion of this

story,

Scheer's Radicalism, reads as follows:

Probably the best known nationally of Ramparts'

staffers is Managing Editor Robert Scheer, who, at

30, has made a career of New Leftism. A former member

of

the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee, he

is the most articulate of the Ramparts crew and con-

tends that he is an anti-Communist.

Last year Scheer ran for the Democratic nomi-

nation for U.S. Congress in Berkeley, hinging his

entire campaign on getting out of the war

Nam and getting into the

weeks ago, Scheer traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia,

intraveled to Pro

in Viet

"War on Poverty.!

Several

to meet with the Communist-controlled International

Union of Students and representatives of the National

Liberation Front,

the political arm of the Comnunist

Viet Cong in South Viet Nam.

Not publicized in his race for Congress but

revealed later was the fact that Scheer's campaign

coordinator was Carl Bloice, a 28-year-old Communist

party member.

Bloice's CP membership was hardly a

secret; for several years he had been a by-lined staff

writer for People's World, the Communist weekly on

the West Coast, and then he

was publications director

of the Communist-controlled W.E.B. DuBois Clubs.-

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"From Berkeley to D.C.

"At last summer's Communist party convention in

New York City, Bloice vas elected to the CP's National

Committee and the requirements for serving on that

policy board make it ciear Bloice has been a CP member

since at least January 1964, although intelligence

agencies place it many years

earlier.

"Just two months ago the newsletter of the Robert

scheer campaign he is keeping his organization intact

under the name of Community for New Politics (CNI)

carried a social note:

'Carl Bloice, heretofore

coorainator for cut, has left Berkeley for the Larger

battlefield in washington, D.C., where he will be a

correspondent for People's world and The worker. At

a farewell party December 23 at the home of Mr. and

InS: Robert Scheer, Carl was presented with several

zoing-away gifts, including a larger than life poster

of Mao-Tse Tung.. Carl has indicated he will be an

occasional correspondent [for the Scheer newsletter].

We all wish him the best of luck in Washington and

we feel fully comforted by the fact that

we are not

losing a coordinator, but gaining a spy.'

"Tax Money Helped

"The portrait of Mao probably brought a gust

of laughter when it was unveiled and presented to the

Moscow line Bloice, and the 'gaining a spy' phrase was

simply new Left humor. The story makes two important

points: 1) Scheer's campaign manager was a Communist,

and 2) The Capital correspondent for two Communist

newspapers will contribute occasional articles to

Scheer's campaign organization.

"Scheer has told Human Events that he hired Bloice

'for his technical competence'; that he likes him as

a person, but violently disagrees with his politics.

"Communist Bloice, however, was only one of Scheer's

supporters. Another backer was

the U.S. Treasury,

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which channeled funds into Scheer's campaign.

It

worked this way.

During his campaign one of his

workers was Mrs. Phyllis Haberman O'Donnell, who has

been chairman of the Fust Bay Dufois Club.

Mrs. O'Donnell

worked on a work-study program directed by the

University of California's Department of Criminology

(which is now practically another Sociology Department)

and was assigned to a leftist group called welfare

Rights Organization as a case worker.

In truth, she

worked for the Scheer campaign and reported on it

at WRO meetings.

"The work-study program

was originally funded

through the Office of Economic Opportunity, receives

its funds through the National Defense Education Act

and is overseen by the Department of Health, Education

and Welfare."

An article by IVAN SHARPE appeared in the San

Francisco Bay Guardian daily newspaper published at San Francisco,

California, in its issue of March 27, 1969, entitled "Ramparts -

revolution with limousine service."

This article reflects

numerous interviews with present and former officials of Ramparts

magazine and analyzes factors that led to this magazine's financial

difficulties.

The article places primary blame for the bankruptcy

on WARREN HINCKLE and ROBERT SCHEER for their extragavant spending,

such as taking their wives on trips for Ramparts and spending huge

sums of money.

Most of the blame was placed on WARREN HINCKLE

because frequently his expense account would be more than the

money he raised on promotional trips.

The article gave most of

the credit for the sensational stories and exposes to ROBERT

SCHEER, who obtained them from his new left contacts.

It reported

that HINCKLE had destroyed Ramparts and SCHEER was angry about

this.

SCHEER decided to stay on as Editor-In-Chief of Ramparts

and his

salary has been reduced from $15,000 to $10,000 per year

in an effort to help the magazine out of its financial problems.

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VII. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Subject:

Name

Address

Sex

Race

Date of Birth

Place of Birth

Married

The following is a physical description of the

Remarried

Height

Hair

Eyes

Occupation

Peculiarities

Father

Mother

Wife

Employment

U.S. Passport Number

Wife's U.S. Passport #

Education

ROBERT SCHEER

6468 Benvenue Avenue,

Oakland, California

Male

White

April 4, 1936

Bronx, New York

September 15, 1957, to SERENA

TUREN SCHEER, date of birth

October 16, 1939, at New York.

Divorced, September 23, 1965,

in San Francisco.

October 22, 1965, to ANNE

BUTTERFIELD WEILLS SCHEER,

date of birth March 14, 1942,

at California.

5'10 1/2"

Light Brown

Brown, wears dark rimmed glasses

Writer

Wears Van Dyke beard

FREDERICK JACOB SCHEER, born

May 5, 1898, in Germany,

U.S• Citizen

IDA KURAN, born April 24, 1900,

in Russia, not a U.S. citizen.

ANNE BUTTERFIELD WEILLS SCHEER,

6468 Benvenue Avenue, Oakland

California.

Editor in Chief, Ramparts

Magazine, San Francisco, California

D163804, issued February 5,

1963 - turned in and new passport

number G041559 issued January

28, 1966

D167218, issued February 25, 1963

renewed January 28, 1966

City College, New York - BA

Degree in Political Science,

June, 1958

Syracuse University, Syracuse,

New York, MA University of

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California, Berkeley,

California, 1960-61

Arrest Record

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AD HOC COMMITTEE TO END DISCRIMINATION

According to an article in the March 8, 1964, Issue

of the "San Francisco Examiner,"

a San Francisco daily morning

newspayer, TRACY SIMS stated among other things that following

a sit-in demonstration in San Francisco during October 1963 by

various civil rights groups, the groups realized that a central,

vat san ne

coordinating committee was needed. The formation of AD HOC

COMMITTEE TO END DISCRIMINATION (AHCED) was the result and SIMS

became its chairman.

A source reported on December 9, 1953, that in

December 1963 TRACY SIMS attended a joint

meeting of the San Francisco Communist Party

Youth Club and the Communist Party Berkeley

Off-Campus Youth Club.

A second source, on May 12, 1964, described AHCED as

a central body of representatives from militant youth organiza-

tions whose purpose was to work for equal civil rights ana to

put pressure on establishments and employers to hire more people

from

the minority races, especially Negroes.

A third source reported on March 13, 1964, that at

a meeting of the San Francisco Branch of the Socialist Workers

Party on March 11, 1964, KIPP DAWSON, a representative of

ARCED, related among other things that AHCED was directed and

controlled by the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of the Bay Area.

A fourth source reported on January 30, 1964, that

on January 29, 1964, KIPP DAWSON attended a San

Francisco Branch membership meeting of the

Socialist Workers Party.

Second source related on May 12, 1964, that the

W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of the Bay Area consisted

of the W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of San Francisco,

Berkeley, and San Francisco State College. -

Accord-

ing to source, any member of the W.E.B. DuBols

Club of San Francisco who attends San Francisco

State College is automatically a member of the

A fifth

source reported on February 3, 1965, that on

February 3, 1965, a press conference was held at

1365 Turk

street,

San Francisco, California.

At this press conference, an

official of AHCED announced and passed out press releases that

as of February 3, 1965, AHCED was no longer in existence.

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BLACK PANTHEP PARTY, aka

Black Panther Party for

Self Defense

A source advised

that the Black Panther Party for

Self Defense (BPPSD) was forned by HUEY PERCY NEWTON, Minister

of Defense, and BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, Chairman, in December, 1966,

as a militant black nationalist political organization to combat

police brutality,, to unite militant black youth, and to

determine the destiny of black comnunities.

The political

philosophy was taken from writings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung of

Communist China and black militant writers.

In March, 1968, the name of the organization was

changed to Black Panther Party (BFP).

The official BPP publication,

The Black Panther

Party - Black Comnunity News Service, states that

the

BPP

advocates use of runs and guerrilla tactics in their violent

revolutionary program to end oppression of black people.

On February 17, 1962, ELDPILGE CLEAVER, Minister of

Information, announced merger of the DPP and Student Nonviolent

Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and bestowed title of Minister of

Justice, BPP, upon H. RAP BROVII, Chairman of SNCC.

SNCC is a militant Negro organization

which preaches black supremacy.

NEWTON, aforementioned, is incarcerated in the Alameda

County Jail, Oakland, California,

awaiting trial on charge of

murder of an Oakland police officer.

Headquarters of DPP and Huey P. Newton Defense Funa

are located at 4421 Grove Street, Dakland, California.

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DISCUSSION UNLIMITED, INC.

Recoras of the Division of Corporations, California

State Departnent of Investments, Los Angeles, California,

indicate that Discussion Unlinited filed its

Articles of

Incorporation as a nonprofit corporation, with the Secretary

of State;

sacramento, California, on or about June 4, 1963,

noting les princidal site of office as los angeles County,

California.

The

ains and purposes of the organization, as

listed in the Articles of Incorporation, are

...to promote

full and open discussion on our society and problems

A scurce advised on May 8r. 1963, that Discussion

Unlimited, Inc. actually was originated in Los Angeles,

California, in May, 1962, and vas composed largely of a number

and former Cormunist Party members who assist in

steging panel foruns and in promoting such events. Original

coorcinator or the group was BERIARD LUSIER, who in 1951,

vas educational director of the Southern California District

Communist Party.

inis source was recontacted on April 9, 1965, and

indicated

that the basic concept of Discussion Unlimited, Inc.

has not changed. It continues to present

"left ideas"

least partially non-comnitted audiences.

It proposes to

develon

special activities around various issues on an irregular

It is not a membership organization, and does not hold

regular meetings

as such, but rather is strictly a forum-type

organization.

On May 10, 1966,

another source reported that

Discussion Unlimitea, Inc.

continues to operate as a forum-

type organization.

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W.E.B. DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA - BERKELEY BRANCH;

W.E.B. DuBois Youth Club - Berkeley Chapter;

Berkeley W.E.B. DuBois Club, Berkeley DuBois Club;

East Bay DuBois Club

A source advised on April 12, 1903, that the W.E.B.

DuBois Youth Club - Berkeley Chapter, was originated in October

1962, principally through the efforts of MATHEW HALLINAN.

This same source advised in October 1963,

that MATHEW HALLINAN was elected as Chairman

and Communist Party (CP) Youth Commission

Representative of the Berkeley CP On-Campus

Youth club during September 1963.

A second source advised that a leaflet distributed by

the Berkeley DuBois Club in Spetember 1964, reflected the name of

that organization to be the "W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America -

Berkeley Branch."

under the heading "The DuBols Clubs of

America" reads as follows:

This same leafler' "The Berkeley DuBois Club is a part of

a nation-wide socialist youth organization founded in June of this

It attemots to bring together those action-oriented youth

who consider socialism to be a visible alternative to the ills of

this society.

As of April 23, 1965, the Berkeley W.E.B. DuBoIs Club

was registered with the University of California as an "off-campus"

membership organization.

As such, it could present lectures on

campus with prior University permission and was allowed to set up

and maintain a literature table on campus.

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W.E.B. DU BOIS CLUB OF SAN FRANCISCO,

aka. DuBois Youth Group, San Francisco

DuBois Club, San Francisco DuBois

Youth Group, Student-Labor Alliance

A source advised that on January 31, 1963, the w.E.B.

DuBois Club of San Francisco held Its first general meeting at

California Hall, Polk and Turk Streets, San Francisco, California,

at which time

the aims of the club were put forth as follows by

TERENCE "KAYO" HALLINAN:

(1) Alleviate the Negro problem in the United

States.

(2)

Promote peaceful co-existence between the

United States and Russia.

(3):

Promote and encourage Marxist doctrines and

to bring about a socialistic government in

the United States.

A second source advised in March 1963, that the DuBols

Club was both conceived and originated by TERENCE HALLINAN.

A third source advised on April 9, 1965, that

In April 1965, TERENCE HALLINAN advised

he was

not a member of the Communist Party (CP) but

considered himself a communist and intended

to join the CP as soon as he passed his bar

exams .

A fourth source advised on June 29, 1964, that at a

general membership meeting held on June 28, 1964, the DuBois Club

voted to affiliate with the parent organization, the W.E.B. DUBOls

Clubs of America (CA).

The fourth source advised on April 26, 1965, that the

DuBois Club is currently active as a membership organization, has

Its headquarters at 1007 McAllister Street, San Francisco, and

continues to follow the line and policy of

the DCA.

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A source has advised that on October 26-27, 1963, a

conference of members of the Communist Party (CP), including

national

functionaries, met in Chicaro, Illinois, for the purpose

of setting in motion forces for the establishment of a new

rational Marxist-criented youth organization which would hurt

for the most peaceful transition to socialism.

The delegates

to this meeting were cautioned against the germ of anti-soviet

These delegates were also told that it

would be reasonable to assume that the voung socialists

attracted into this new organization would eventually pass into

the co itself.

A second conference of over 20 persons met in Chicago

convention to be held in June, 1964.

A second source has advised that the founding convention

for the new youth organization was held from Tune 19-21, 1964,

at 150 folden fate Avenue,

San Francisco, Califorria, at which

time the name w. E. B. DuBois Clubs of America (DCA)

was adopted.

Approximately 500 delegates from throughout the United States

attended this convention.

The aims of

this organization, as set

forth in the preamble to the constitution, are,

"It is our

belief that this nation can best solve its problems in an

atmosphere of peaceful coexistence,

complete disarmament and true

freedom for all peoples of the world, and that these solutions

will he reached mainly throuph the united efforts of ail democratic

elements in our country, comnosed essentially of the working deople

allied in the unity of Neorces and other minorities with whites.

We further fully recognize that the greatest threat to American

democracy comes from the racist and right wine forces in

coalition with the most reactionary sections of the economic nover

structure, using the tocl of anti-Communism to divide and destroy

the unified struggle of the workine neople.

As young people in

the forces struggling for democracy, ve shall actively strive to

defeat these reactionary and neo-fascist elements and to achieve

complete freedom and democracy for all Americans, thus enabling

each individual to freely choose and build the society he would

wish to live in.

Througn these struggles we feel the American

peonle will realize

the viability of the socialist alternative."

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2.

The constitution further states that this new

organization shall be a membership organization open to

individuals,

or if five or more people so desire, a charter can

be formed which shall in turn be ruided by the policies and

principles of the parent organization.

As of October, 1965,

the headquarters of the DCA was

located at 954 MAllister Street, San Francisco, California.

ever the Labor Day weekend, 1965, the Dee

held a

conference in chicago,.

Illinois. According to a thini source,

a new state of national officers was elected at this conference,

which included Chairman HUGE STERLING FOLER, II (who, according

to the third source, attended a CP cadre encampment heid at

Camp Midvale, New Jersey, in June, 1965, and following his

election as Chairman of

the DCA, attenced another national

CP cadre youth conference held on September 9-12, 1965, on

farm located in Northern Indiana, according to a

fourth source);

Director of Publicity CARL ELLENGER BLOICE (who was elected to

the san francisco county Committee CP In April, 1964, according

to a fifth source); Educational Director MATTHEW "DYNAMITE"

HALLITAN who in June, 1964, was stated to be the Youth

Pepresentative on the Northern California CP District Board,

accordino to a sixth source); Organizational Secretary

TEPENCE

"KAY?" HALLINAN (who, according to a seventh source, met

in June, 1965, with the District Staff of the Illinois CP to

the proposed DCA Midwest Summer Project, and Treasurer

SUSAN PHYLLIS BORENSTETN Who, according to an elsath source,

has attended meetings of the

Youth Club of the CP of Illinois

during 1965 in connection with the ICA Summer Project).

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FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE,

BAY AREA CHAPTER, also known

as Bay Area Fair

Play for Cuba

Committee (BAFPCC)

The "New York Times' newspaper on November 20, 1960.

carried an article captioned "Pro-Castro-Body Reports U.S.

Gain," which reported that the Fair Play for Cuba Committee

(FPCC) had 5,000 paid-up members in the United States:

article declared that the FPCC.had.headquarters at 799 Broad-

way, New York City, New York, and had chapters in other cities.

including one in San Francisco.

A source advised in March, 196I, that the Bay Area

Chapter of the FPCC (BAFPCC) began to be formed in San Fran-

cisco in November, 1960, under the direct guidance and leader.

ship of ASHER HARER,

who the source identified as a member

of the San Francisco Branch of the Socialist Workers Party

(SWP) and a member

of the National Comnittee of the SWP.

The SWP has been designated by the Attorney

General of the United States pursuant to

Executive Order 10450.

This source advised in March, 1963, that in the

recent election of the BAFPCC the SWP continued its influence

by having SWP members elected to the executive. committee.

This source advised in May, 1963, that- the BAFPCC™

included members in San Francisco and sumounding counties.-

he advised that the BAFPCC has no headquarters but received

mail through Post Office Box 2615, San Francisco 26, California,

which is a box maintained by ASHER HARER.

He stated that the

announced aims and purposes of the BAFPCC are to "spread the

truth about Cuba and to prevent U.S. intervention in Cuba.".

A second source advised on January 10, 1964 that

at a BAFPCC meeting in Berkeley, California, in December.

1963, It was decided to dissolve the BAFPCC.

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The April 6, 1960, edition of "The New York Times"

newspaper contained a

full-page advertisement captioned

What is Really Happening in Cuba," placed by the Fair Play

for Cuba Committee (FPCC). This advertisement announced

the formation of the FPCC in New York City and declared the

FPCC intended to promulgate "the truth about revolutionary

Cuba" to neutralize the distorted American press.

"The New York Times" edition of January 1l, 1961,

reported that at a hearing conducted before the United States

Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on January 10, 1951,

Dr. CHARLES A. SANTOS-BUCH identified himself and ROBERT TABER

as organizers of the FPCC.

He also testified he and TABER

obtained funds from the Cuban Government which were applied

toward the cost of the aforementioned advertisement.

On May 15, 1963, a source advised that auring the

first two years of the FPCC's existence there was a struggle

between Communist Party (CP) and Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

elements to exert their power within the FPCC and thereby

influence FPCC policy.

This source added that auring the

past year there had been a successful effort by FPCC leadership

to minimize the role of these and other organizations in the

FPCC so that their influence as of May, 1963, was negligible.

The SWP has been designated by the Attorney

General of the United

States pursuant to

Executive Order 10450.

On May 20, 1963, a second source advised that

VINCENT "TED" LEE,

FPCC National Office Director, was then

formulating FPCC policy and had indicated that he had no

other organization.

that the FPCC should advocate resumption of diplomatic

relations between Cuba and the United States and should

support the right of Cubans to manage their revolution without

interference from other nations.: LEE did not advocate

one nations"

supporting the cuban revolution per se

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The Noverber 22, 1963, edition of "The New York

Times' reported that Senator THOMAS J. DODD Of Cornecticut

had called FPCC "the chief public relations instrument of

the Castro network in the United States." It is to be noted

that Senator DODD was a member of the Senate Internal

Security Subcommittee which twice conducted hearings on the

FPCC .

The December

27, 1963, edition of "The New York

World Telegram and Sun" newspaper stated that the pro-Castro

FeCC was seeking to go out of business and that its prime

activity during its lifetime had been sponsorship of pro-

Castro street rallies and mass picket lines, and the direction

of an active propaganda mill highlighting illegal travel-co-

cuba campaigns. Lis comparatively brief span of life was

attributed to mounting anti-Castro American public opinion,

the 1962 Congressional hearings which disclosed FPCC financing

by Castro's United Nations Delegation, and ultimately, the

bad publicity which the FPCC received

from disclosure of

activities on its behalf by suspected Presidential assassin

LEE H. OSWALD:

On February 6, 1964, the previously mentioned

second source advised that V. T. LEE had recently remarked

that the FPCC was dead and that there were no plans to

organize another similar organization.

On April 13, 1964, a third source advised that

there had not been any FPCC activity in many months and that

the FPCC had been dissolved.

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INTEPNATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS

1.

"The World Federation of Nemocratic Youth

brought into being the International Union of Students,

which held a meeting in Prague on August 17-31, 1946.

The administration and direction of this project was

entrusted to a 17-man executive committee, of whom 12

were known Communists."

Also cited as one of the

"long-

established Soviet-controlled interrational organizations"

which speak identical lines

of propaganda and stand to-

gether on all phases of Soviet forein policy and which

has "affiliated organizations in the United States, which

consequently have also been turned into instruments in the

'peace'

campaign."

(Committee on Un-American /ctivities,

House jeport 271 on American Youth for

L'emocracy, April 17, 1347, P. 13; and

House Feport 378 on

the Communist "peace"

CItensive, April 25, 1951, originally

released April l, 1951, p. 770)

2 •

Cited

as being among "international Communist

fronts

functioning at the present tire."

(Internal

Security Subcommittee of the

Senate Judiciary Comrittee,

Fardbook for

Americans, S. Doc. 117, Auril 23, 195f,

P. 93, also p. 59.)

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NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO ABOLISH THE HOUSE

UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE

The "Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications"

issued December 1, 1961, by the House Committee on Un-American

Activities, page 115, contains the following citation regarding

the National Committee to Abolish the Un-American Activities

Committee (NCAUAC) •

"Cited as a new organization' set up in the Summer of

1960 to lead and direct the Communist Party's 'Operation Abolition'

campaign.

Seven of the national leaders of this group have

been identified as Communists."

A source has advised that the NCAUAC changed its name

on March 3, 1962, to include the word "House" in its name,

thereby becoming

known as the National Committee to Abolish

the House Un-American Activities Committee (NCAHUAC) •

A second source advised on June 28, 1965, that as of that

date the NCAHUAC continued to function with the headquarters

at 555 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

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PROGRESSIVE LABOR MOVEMENT (PLi)

A source advised on April 20, 1965, that the PLe?

formerly known as the PLM, held its first national convention

April 15-19, 1965,

at New

York City, to organize the PLM into a

PLP.

The PLP will have as its ultimate objective the establish-

ment of a militant working class movement based on Marxism-

Leninism.

"The new lork times,

1965, раде 27,

socialisn" was formally founded on April 18, 1965, under the

name of the PLP. The PLP was described as an outgrowch of the

PLM.

Its officers were identified as MILION ROSEN, New York,

President, and WILLIAM EPTON of New York and MORY SCHEER of San

Francisco, Vice Presidents. A 20-member National Committee was

elected to direct the party, until the rext convention.

According to the article, "The Progressive Labor Movement

was

founded in 1962 by Mr. ROSEN and Mr. SCHEER after they were

expelled from the Communist Party of the United States for

assertedly following the Chinese Connunist line."

The PLP publishes the "Marxist-Leninist Quarterly,"

theoretical magazine; "Progressive Labor," a monthly magazine;

"Challenge," a New York City newspaper; and "Spark," a west coast

newspaper.

The June 1, 1965, issue of "Challenge," page 6, states

that,

"this paper is dedicated to fight for a new way of life -

where the working men and women own and control their homes,

Factories, the police, courts, and the entire government on every

level."

The source advised that the ple utilizes the address of

General Post Office Box 808, Brooklyn 1, New York, but also

utilizes an office in Room

on 3 22, 2k2 vag:

024, 132 Nassau Street, New York City,

where PLP publications are prepared.

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SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION:

approximately in the early part of 1938 and the Oakland Branch of

the Swe was formed in the latter part of 1938.

• secona source advised on October 26, 1959, that the

name of the Oakland Branch of the

sur was changed to the Oakland

Berkeley Branch of the SWP.

A third source advised on April 2, 1955,

that the San

Francisco Branch and the Oakland-Berkeley Branch of the SWP follow

the policies and directives of the National SWP wich which they are

affillated.

The SWP has been designated by the Attorney

General of the United States pursuant to

Executive Order 10450.

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The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), as it

is known today, same into being at a founding convention held

at Port Huron,

Michigan, in June, 1962. The SDS is an association

of young people on the left and has a current program of pro-

testing

the draft, promoting a campaign for youth to develop

a conscientious objector status, denouncing United States in-

tervention in the war in Vietnam and to "radically transform"

the university community, and provide for its complete control

by students.

GUS HALL, General Secretary, Conmunist Party, USA,

when interviewed by a representative of United Press International

on May

14, 1965, described the

SDS as a part

which the Party has

"going for us." At the June, 1965 SDS National Convention, an

anti-communist proviso was removed from the SDS constitution.

In the October 7, 1966 issue of "New Left Notes," the official

publication of SDS, an SDS spokesman stated that there are some

communists in SDS and they are welcome.

The National Head-

quarters of this organization as of April 18,1967, was located

in Room 206, 1608 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois.

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VIETNAM DAY COMMITTEE (VDC)

A source advised in May, 1965, that the VDC was founded in

May, 1965, to organize the May 21-22, 1965, community "teach-in"

on

the University of California, Berkeley, California (UCB) campus.

Public literature distributed by the VDC reveals that the

purpose of the VDC is to mold public opinion to force withdrawal of

the United States from Vietnam, and to utilize dramatic, large-scale

demonstrations in increasing public alarm about the Vietnam war.

A second source advised on June 24, 1966, that at a meeting

of the San Francisco Branch of the Socialist Horkers Party (SMP) in

San Francisco, California, on June 22, 1966, KIPP DAWSON, whom source

identified as a member of the Branch, commented, among other things,

that with our help' the VDC was finally recognized as a political

power and was under "our control."

The SWP has been designated by the

Attorney General of the United States

pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

During

the period from August 18, 1966 to October 7, 1966, the

VDC was publicly announced as having been expelled from the UCB as

a recognized on-campus organization.

A third source advised on September 29, 1966, that PETE CAMEJO

was the chief spokesman for the VDC in its attempts for reinstate-

ment as a recognized UCB on-campus organization. Following the re-

instatement of the VDC in October, 1966, CAMEJO decided to disband

the Campus

Chapter of the United Committee Against Mar (UCAl), which

he had organized to replace the VDC on the UCB campus when it was

expelled.

The UCAW Chapter was disbanded and the VDC subsequently

became an "affiliate" of UCAW.

he third source further advised that as of September 29, 1966,

the DC was controlled and dominated by PETE CAMEJO.

Source added

that the VDC is no longer under the control of the old stalwarts of

the original VDC and there is no continuity between the original and

current VDC.

A fourth source on October 27, 1966, identified

PETE CAMEJO as a current member of the StiP.

The fourth and a fifth source in September and

October, 1966, identified UCAl as an organization

in the San Francisco and East Bay areas whose

activities were directed toward protesting United

States foreign policy in Vietnam, and is controlled

and dominated by the SIlP and the

Young Socialist

Alliance (YSA.

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WOMEN FOR PEACE, aka

Women Strike for Peace

The "Berkeley Daily Gazette," a daily newspaper of

general circulation published in Berkeley, California,

contained an article in the November 19, 1965,

evening edition reflecting that in November, 1961,

when concern mounted over radioactive fallout

Washington, D. C. started Women Strike for Peace.

The idea spread rapidly throughout the country

and now embraces 900 groups, including Women For

Peace groups in the San Francisco Bay area.

These groups support programs to achieve goals

such as :

(1) Continued disarmament negotiations•

(2) A strong and flexible United Nations.

(3)

Planning now at state and national levels

for conversion to peace-time economy and

positive efforts to ease world tensions.

The women act as individuals and as

group,

specific actions suggested by individuals and

with

groups from all over the world. Decision to

participate jointly on any given suggestion is

democratly arrived at by members of the

Coordinating Committee.

Effective cooperation

with other peace groups is encouraged.

Monthly

Coordinating Committee meetings and general

meetings,

as warranted, are open to all and

announced in mailings to members.

dues or membership forms nor conditions for

membership.

To stir an awareness of the need for peace,

Women For Peace encourage public education

in

peace obiectives at local schools and sponsor

peace-oriented demonstrations and public meetings,

newspaper ads, billboards, and candidates for

public office.

On the national level the group

attempts to influence government officials by

letters and conferences.

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YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE (known in

the San Francisco Bay area as the

Bay Area Young Socialist Alliance, aka.

the Bay Area Committee of the Young

Socialist Alliance, Bay Area Committee

for the Young Socialist)

A source advised on May 16, 1960, that the Bay Area

Young Socialist Alliance (BAYSA) was formed

in February 1958,

as the Bay Area Committee for the Young Socialist (BACYS) • At

a later state in its

development prior to adoption of the name

BAYSA, the organization was known as the Bay Area Committee of

the Young Socialist Alliance (PACYSA) •

The source advised that as a result of a national

convention held April 15-17, 1960, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,

the BAYSA became a branch of the national organization to be

known as the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) and will carry out

in the Northern California area the policies of the YSA.

A second source advised April 28, 1966, that the

BAYSA is currently active and is composed of three locals:

The San Francisco YSA, the Berkeley YSA, and the San Jose YSA.

The first source advised on April 28,

1966, that the

BAYSA, although ostensibly an independent organization, is

in reality controlled by the San Francisco Branch, Socialist

Workers Party (SWP) and the Oakland Branch SWP.

The SWP has been designated by the

Attorney General of the United States

pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

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The May, 1960 issue of the "Young Socialist" (YS),

page 1, column 3,

disclosed that during April 15-17, 1960, a

national organization entitled "The Young Socialist Alliance"

(YSA) was established at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This issue

stated that this organization was formed by the nation-wide

supporter clubs of the publication YS.

The above issue, page 6, set forth the Founding Declara-

tion of YSA.

This declaration stated that the YSA recognizes

the

Socialist Workers Party (SWP) as the only existing political

leadership on class struggle principles, and that the supporters

of the YS have come into basic political solidarity with the SWP

on the principles of revolutionary socialism.

A source advised on May 23, 1966, that the original YSA

was an organization formed during October,

1957, in New York City

by youth of various left socialist tendencies, particularly members

and followers of the SWP.

The leaders of this

group were the

guiding forces in the establishment of the national organization.

The source further advised on May 23, 1966, that the YSA

is dominated and controlled on a national basis by the SWP through

having SWP members comprise

exclusively the National Executive

Committee (NEC).

The YSA, in reality, is the youth and training

section of the SWP and the main source of new SWP members.

The headquarters of the YSA are located in Room 535,

41 Union Square West, New York City.

The SWP has been designated pursuant to

Executive Order

10450.

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F.D-323 (Rev. 11-29-61)

In Reply, Please Refer ro

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

April 22, 1969

ROBERT SCHEER

Title

Character

Reference

SECURITY MATTER - MISCELLANEOUS

(KEY ACTIVIST)

Report of SA WILLIAM E. HUGHES

dated and 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.

SF T-23 with whom contact has been insufficient to

establish his reliability.

SECA

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This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI.

It is the property

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

your agency.

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