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Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note]. Case#:NW

E4954 Date: 10-31-2022

Date

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08/25/98

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION

FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : INSCOM/CSE

RECORD NUMBER

: 194-10002-10206

- RECORDS SERIES : DOD-AFFILIATED PERSONNEL AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

PAGES 1421-1424

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : FBI

FROM

TO

TITLE : [ RESTRICTED ]

DATE

: 08/21/69

PAGES : 4

SUBJECTS : SCHEER, ROBERT

FEDERAL GRAND JURY

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

KALDENBACH, ROBERT

HYLAND, RICHARD

BAY AREA REVOLUTIONARY UNION

RED UNION

REPORT

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : UNCLASSIFIED

RESTRICTIONS : 3, SECTION 10(a) 2

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 11/02/97

OPENING CRITERIA : COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY FBI

COMMENTS : COORDINATION WITH FBI HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND

DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE WITH RESTRICTIONS, PER LTR

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CIAB

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In Reply, Please Refer to

Pile No.

UNITED TATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 21, 1969

ROBERT SCHEER

concerning

Reference is made to the San Francisco memorandum

Robert Scheer dated August 15, 1969.

David R. Urdan, Chief Assistant U. S. Attorney,

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

did not appear before the Federal Grand Jury

this date with the records of

due to a misunderstanding.

attorney was present to explain that

could not properly

answer the subpoena duces tecum inasmuch as he did not have

custody of these records.

Iwo attorneys for the Department of

Justice, Washington, D. C.. who are handling the Grand Jury

Lattorney they wanted L

to answer

the subpoena regardless of who had eustody of the records.

Grand Jury inquiry in this matter has been continued until

10:30 a.M., August 27, 1969, with Scheer due to appear.

JFK Law 10(a)2

attorney

stated that the persons having

custody of the records of

are

Controller of "Ramparts"

have

for

and

been

prepared

and

Accordingly, subpoenaes duces tecum

and

given

to the U. S. Marshal, San Francisco.

to also appear at 10:30 a.m..

before the Federal Grand Jury, 16th Floor,

REVOWED BY FELLE TASK FORCE

112endar

RELSASE IN POLL

RELEASE IN FART

TOTAL DENIAL

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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ROBERT SCHEER

Robert Joyce Kaldenbach resides at

1843 Capistrano

Street, Berkeley, California.

Ribaard Francis Hyland, II, Apartment 1, 1309 10th

Avenue, San Francisco, was

reported by Andrew J.

Eyman, Judge of the Superior Court, City Hall, San

Francisco, on July 9, 1968, as having arranged to

be married by this judge.

During the course of

Judge Eyman performing the wedding July 3, 1968,

Richard Francis Hyland and Susan

Greenwald,

Eyman asked Hyland to repeat the words, "with this

ring I thee wed according to the laws of the State

of California." Hyland replied "with this ring I

believe in the overthrow of the government of the

United States." Unbelieving, the judge asked Hyland

there ana to us a y

statement but he refused to do so.

Then the judge crossed his name off the marriage

license and refused to perform the ceremony requiring

Hyland to get another license before he could get

married:

A confidential source reported March 9, 1969, that

Rick Hyland was active in the Bay Area

Revolutionary

Union as also was Hyland's wife but Hyland was being

expelled for individualism. The same source stated

May 7, 1969, that Hyland was no longer a member of

the Revolutionary Union but his wife was still a

member.

A characterization of the Bay Area Revolutionary

Union is contained in the appendix attached hereto.

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REVOLUTIONARY UNION,

ALSO KNOWN AS

PED UNION, BAY AREA

REVOLUTIONARY UNION

In September, 1968, a source advised that the

Revolutionary Union, commonly known to its

membership as

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

revolutionary, Marxist-Leninist organization ideologically

oriented toward Communist China, which it views as the

model of the correct revolutionary Marxist-Leninist line

developed through MAO Tse-tung.

The Pl advocates the necessity

of violent revolution and open.

guerrilla warfare to overthrow

the existing political system in the United States and effect

radical changes in this nation,

and some members are collecting

firearms, explosives, and other weapons and have engaged in

guerrilla warfare and

firearms training.

In the San

Bay

Area, the RU consists of three locals, one each in ancisco

Francisco, the East Bay, and the Peninsula.

In April, 1969, a second

source advised that the RU

partially surfaced

during

that month through advertisements in

• select

"New Left" periodicals, identifying three members of the

Executive Committee as public spokesmen and offering

for sale

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

in the

form of "The Red Papers."

With the exception of the three

sublicly identified spokesmen,

the general membership of the PU

vill remain covert; however, individual members are free to revead

their RU membership

to close political associates as the necessities

of political effectiveness dictate.

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

the smashing of the existing state

apparatus by the United States

working class and the establishment of communism and the dictatorship

of the proletariat; recognizes the necessity of violent revolution

and organized armed struggle to achieve those ends and calls for

the creation of a revolutionary party based upon Marxism-Leninism

as develoded through MAn Tse-tung.

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DIEND SLATES DELNATMENT ON JUSTICE

LORDAD BORRAG OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 21, 1969

Title

ROBERT SCHEER

Character

Reference

San Francisco memorandum dated and

captioned as above.

i 1 sources (except coy listed below whose identities

are corsesied in referenced commurication hare furrished reliable

infordion is the past.

so drills dulles recommendeilone nor concluside: o1 the Fil.

fine the proparty

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