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: SCHEER, ROBERT

FINANCES

NEW LEFT AND BLACK PANTHER PARTY

U.S. PEOPLE'S ANTI-IMPERIALIST DELEGATION

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

PEACE AND FREEDOM PARTY

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FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59)

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Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

DARWIN B. GREEN

10/12/70

100-46832

ROBERT SCHEER

Office:

SAN FRANCISCO

Bureau File #:

105-106720

Characier:

SECURITY MATTER - MISCELLANEOUS

Synopsis:

ROBERT SCHEER is residing in Berkeley, California,

and employed as a free-lance writer or author from his

He seportedly financed an ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Film

produced in France early 1970. In April of 1970 he receive

$1,000 for speaking in Las Vegas, Nevada, and $100 for

speaking in Tempe, Arizona. In May he received $350

fxom

the Chicago Conspiracy Appeal Fund in New York City. His

only confirmed checking account is in San Francisco and

has a current balance of $1,26.

Ee has traveled extensively

throughout the United States, giving his support to the

New Left and Black Panther Party (BPP). From July through

September, 1970, he traveled to France, Moscow, North Korea,

North Vietnam, and Conmunist China as a member

"U.S. Anti-Imperialist Delegation" led and directed by

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER.

SCHEER is the current candidate of

the

Peace and Freedom Party for the U.S. Senate and is actively

campaigning for this office.

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BACKGROUND

A.

Residence

ROBERT SCHEER is currently residing at 3016

Bateman Street, Berkeley, California.

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September 11, 1970

B .

Employment

SCHEER is a free-lance writer or author and editor

for various national magazines früm his residence.

SF T1

September 11, 1970

C.:

Finances

On April 20, 1970, Sr. I-2 advised that ROBERT

SCHEER spoke at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNDV) •

on April 17, 1970, and received $1,000 for his appearance.

His speach was in

conjunction with the annual art festivai,

university of Nevada at Las Vegas, and he was paid by UNIV

under a Federal Money Matching Grant.

His fee was paid by

50 percent Of UNLV money and 50 percent from the Federal

Money Matching Grant.

A source abroad advised on July 24, 1970, that.

SCHEER financed

an ELDRIDGE CLEAVER film produced in France

in early 1970.

The actual cost involved with this production

is unknown 852

SF T-3

July 24, 1970

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ELDRIDGE CLEAVER is a former Black Panther

Party

(BPP) Minister of Information who is

noW

a rederal fugitive in Algeria.

A characterization of the BPP is

contained in the appendix.

The "U.S. People's Anti-Imperialist Delegation"

of which SCHEER was

a member recently traveled from the

United States to Moscow, North Korea, North Vietnam, and

China from July: 1970, through September, 1970. At the

beginning ly newspaper a

beginning of this journey the "Evening Star," a Washington,

D. C., daily newspaper, reported in its July 13, 1970 edition

that ROBERT SCHEER said financing for the trip was arranged

individually and was not paid for by North korea.

ROBERT SCHEER appeared at Arizona State University

(ASU), Tempe, Arizona, on April 14, 1970, and was originally

to have received $100

for expenses

and $500 for fees for

his speech.

However, due to an objection raised by the AsU

administration regarding SCHEER, the only money actually

paid was the $100 expenses that was paid out of the Associated

Student Fund, ASU.

SF T-4

June 12, 1970

SCHEER received $350 on May 2, 1970, Erom the

"Chicago Conspiracy Appeal Fund," New York City, New York:

This money was deposited to the Wells Fargo Bank, San

Francisco, California.

SF T-5

June 3, 1970

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ROBERT SCHEER's checking account, number 06780-

00074 ot the Bank of America, Fisherman's Wart Branch,

330 Bay Street, San Francisco, California, had been

inactive for several months

However, recently small

checks have been written on this account reducing the

balance to $3.26 on September 14, 1970.

On October 12.

1970, no additional checks have been weitten; however,

the balance had been reduced to $126 with the deduction of

$2.00 service charge.

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SF Ta7

October 12, 1970

II.

MISCELLANEOUS

A. .

OrganiZationS

U.5. Peoples Anti-Imperialist Delegation

A source advised that ROBERT SCHEER would be

leaving the San Francisco Bay area and would be traveling

to Algiers early July, 1970.

SF T-8

June 30, 1970

The "Evening Star," a

Washington, D. C., daily

newspaper, contained an article in its July

13g 1970,

edition captioned "CLEAVER and Ten Others Flying to North

Korea."

The article, datelined Moscow (UPI), states

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER and ROBERT SCHEER, & California candidate

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for the United States Senate, led an eleven person delegation

to North korea today to try to make the American military

presence in South Korea a new target of the anti-war movement.

"We're going to begin a process of developing a movement in

America that extends cur struggle against the war in Vietnam

to a general struggle against United States imperialism.

especially in Korea," SCHEER said. He also said financing

for the trip was arranged individually and not by the

North Koreans:

On August 18, 1970, SP I-D furnished the following

information issued by the Pyong. Yang KMA International

Service in English, Pyong Yang, "North Korea.

At a farewell

banquet held August 1l, 1970, at Pyong Yang for the "U. S.

Peoples Anti-Imperialist Delegation" of which ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

is head.

CLEAVER was quoted as saying, "We can say that we

have spent one very happy and rewarding month inside chei

university of Revolution.. We know we are better qualified to

wage our struggle against fascism and imperialists ..so it

is with revolutionary anticipation and enthusiasm that we

we will deliver death blows to U. S. fascism and imperialism."

The "Herald and News," a daily paper published in

Livermore, California, In its

August 16, 1970, edition issued

an article captioned "Cleaver's Party Arrives in Hanoi."

The

Americans headed by Black Panther leader ELDRIDGE CLEAVER

had arrived in North Vietnam.

The group, which includes

California politician and author ROBERT SCHEER, went to

Hanoi after a stay of about one month in North

Korea.

VNA

described this group as an anti-imperialist group and stated

they arrived August 14, 1970, and were welcomed by DANG THAI

MAI, Vice President of the "Committee for Solidarity with the

American People."

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On September 16, 1970, a representative of the FBI

observed the arrival of the U.s.

Anti-Imperialist Delegation

on Air France flight 707 fron Paris, France, at John E.

Kennedy International Airport, New York City, New York.

The delegation was subject to a customs search in which a

box containing letters of American prisoners of war held in

North Vietnam was temporarily seized from SCHEER by customs

officials.

On the same date this delegation called a press

conference at John F. Kennedy Airport,

New York.

representative of the FBI attended this conference in which

the following prepared statement was made by SCHEER:

"The US Peoples Anti-imperialist Delegation arrived

in New York today after a two month trip to North Korea,

North Vietnam, and China. As a result of this solidarity tour

the American Movement has effecrively established warm

relations with the revolutionary movements of Asia. Convened

the Black Panther Party's International Saction, the deit"

gation, which represents a cross section of American Left,

was headed by comrade ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, Minister of the Elack

Panther Party, and myself - Deputy Chief of Information

This delegation's tour of the capitols of

Asia initiated a new policy of peoples' diplomacy.

This

policy was proven successful because we were officially

received in Pyongyang, the Democratic Peppies Republic

of

Korea.:

We were first delegation of Americans received

in that country since the U.S. war with Russia against that

country:

We were in Hanoi,

the capitol, of the Democratic

Republic of Vietnam, and of Peking the Peoples Republic of

China, and we were the first delegation received in that

country since the start of the cultural revolution four years

ago.

"We met with many officials, including Premier THAM

VAN DONG, General Giap of the DRVN, Prince NOODHAM SIHANOUK,

who we met in Peking, head of the National United Front of

(unintelligible)...and others.

the leaders of these countries

recognizing the

distinction between the government of the

American empire and the American poople themselves have ucked

US

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the eight million Cambodian people and the seven hundred

million Chinese people.

And the trip...those were official

greetings sent by those governments by the revolutionary

governments - in those societies to the American Movement...

our trip undercut the efforts of the U.S. Government to

isolate the American people.

from over one quarter of the

world's peoples.

We were there to answer the lies of SPIRO

AGNEW who travelled to the piteful outpost of the U.S.

empire in South Korea,. South. Vietnam, and Taiwan, while we

visited the seventy per cent of che Asian people who have

literally been liberated.

AGNEU was forced to literately

sneak into Seoul to meet with U.S. puppet POT CHA HEI

(phonetic) into saigon to meet with the fu Chi puppet

clique,

into Taiwas to see with the infamous CHANG KA SHEK While our

delegation moved freely among the people and met openly

with the peoples governments and were received as comrades

in-arms.

"Through radio broadcast, press conferences and cur

free

travel among the people we expressed our unequivocal

opposition to U.S. imperialism which is meeting its end in

Asia.

We demonstrated at Panmunjon in front of U.S: tzoops

stationed in the demilitarized zone in Korea demanding the

immediate end to the illegal occupation of South Korea.

In

visiting all of these countries and witnessing the U.s.

imposed divisions among all peoples, by seeing the devastation

the U.S. troops and their allies have layed upon innocent

people in their home lands, by seeing that the U.S. empire

is reviving the Japanese militarism as a shock force for its

aggressive designs in Asia - the Nixon doctrine - we have

recognized that the aggressive war now being perpetrated

against the Vietnamese people is not an isolated war, but

part of the major U.s. policy of world domination, imperialism

aimed at all of Asia.

Therefore, the only alternative

we have as human beings is to halt this move for world

domination by uniting the broad masses of American people:

who are already opposed to the war in Vietnam into a strong

a Beingene broad, masses,

force that consciously and-actively opposses the overall.

U.S. policy of imperialism in Asia.

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"We call for and are actively engated in building

a U.S. Peoples Anti-Imperialist Front.

We will begin our

work...that's called the U.S. Peoples Anti-Imperialist Front..

we will begin our work by establishing anti-imperialist

Information centers on the east and west coast for communica

tion among those inside the United States fighting U.S.

imperialism and between the American people and the anti-

impetialist movements of the world.

"Now our first task, well, I described that vas co

deliver these letters, we were not allowed to do that.

the future, we will provide a channel through which the

American Anti-Imperialist Movement can communicate with CIs

of Vietnam through letters, radio broadcasting and other

means of communication.

We

will ülso hold mäss

rallies

and

meetings to demonstrate solidarity with those fighting

against U.S. imperialism.

For example, we call for and pian

to organize a rally on January 23, the

date on which the

U.S. spy ship Pueblo was caught red-handed in sovereign

territories waters of the Democratic Peoples Republic of

Korea, that is january 23 date of the demonstration, and ve

will have it nationwide in many cities after consultation

And we will demand

here and now and pleâge ourselves to work to obtair complete

amnesty for the Minister of Information of the Black Panther

Party, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, who has been unjustly forced into

exile by the U. S. Government. "

B.

Speeches

On May 1, 1970, SCHEER attended the May Day rally

in New

Haven, Connecticut, in support of the "New Haven Nine."

SCHEER was a speaker at the rally and the following is the

context of the speech as transmitted over WYBC FM xadio,

& Yale University station,

SCHEER was introduced by DouGlas

MIRANDA, the area captain of the BPF, New Haven Chapter,

New Haven, Connecticut:

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In the speech SCHEER backed the BPP, its leaders,

and made such statements as the following:

"I would suggest that RICHARD NIXON deserves to be

treated as a war criminal and deserves punishment that other

war criminals receive which means applying the standard

of justice which the US has applied to other people.

Perhaps in the charity of our revolutionary hearts we

might ask the conviction to send him to cut sugar cane

in Cuba or something likewise.

"I think there will come a moment of truth and i

think that moment. of truth will he reached when the pigs

move to off people like BOBBY SEALE and other Panthers

facing the gas chamber and the electzic chair, white

radicals who have fought for freedom and that we have to

adopt the BPP slogan no matter what we feel about certain

tactics and that slogan is by any means necessary. We would

prefer the running class in this country to roll over and

play dead and to release BOBBY SEALE tomorrow peacefully. •

non-violence to violence, but you are not going. to k121

BOBDY SEAiE, you're not going to do it and we are going

stop it by any means necessary and we are serious about thät."

A source advised ROBERT SCHEER was in New Haven,

Connecticut, on May 3, 1970, and was scheduled to deliver a

speech at Princeton University that evening, and Harvard:

University on May 4, 1970.

SE T-9

May 3, 1970

A source advised SCHEER spoke on May 9, 1970,

at

a rally in Washington, D. C..

sponsored by the New Mobilization

Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

His remarks were

devoted to giving his support and defense of the BP?.

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The New Mobilization Committee (NMC) is

described as a national steering organiza

cion specializing in the formation of local

specialling

ana national anti-war protest and demonstra-

tion activities through a coalition of local

anti-Vietnam war and draft groups throughout

the

nation.

A source advised SCHEER appeared on a program on

May 25, 1970, before approximately 4,000 persons in Gill

Coliseum on the campus of Oregon State University, Corvallis,

oregon.

SF T-11

May 29, 1970

The "Stanford Daily," a paper published in Stanford,

California, in its October 7, 1970

edition published an

article entitled "Forum Debates Political Process."

The

article stated ROBERT SCHEER was debating the political

process with THOMAS BRADLEY, LOS Angeles, California

Councilman, and ROBERT MORGAN, California Assembly speaker-

During the debate SCHEER was quoted as saying "The Amecican

political system is merely the

"superstructure of a

reactionary corporate economy," and he urged students to

"use the electoral process to get the radical position to

the people, but to do so with the realization that the

outcome of the election means little in terms of meaningful

change."" He described how the "corporate" ownership of mass

media and the need for corporate campaign funds to gain

access to the media resulted in virtually excluding many u

Americans, particularly radicals, from the political process.

So, he urged,

"Crush it!"

C.

Extent of Travel

SCHEER has been traveling extensively throughout

the United States, Europe, and Asia, and giving his support

to the New Left and the BPP. The following sources indicate

the extent of his travel:

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On April 29, 1970, SP T-13 advised SCHEER was in

San Diego, California, the morning of April 29, 1970.

On April 26, 1970, SF I-12 advised SCHEER would

be in New York City from the evening of April 29, 1970,

through May 1i. 1970.

Toh May 3, 1970, SE T-14 advised SCHEER was in

New Haven, Connecticut,

and would stay on the East Coast at

least through May 5, 1970.

A* On May 7, 1970, SF P-15 advised SCHEER was in

Washington, D. C.. meeting with the New Mobilization

Committee.

On May 12, 1970, SP T-16 advised SCHEER had returned

to his home in Berkeley.

California.

On May 22, 1970, SP. I-17 advised SCHEER was then

in Chicago, Illinois.

On May 29; 1970, SE T-ll advised SCHEER was

attending a progsam in the Coliseum on the campus of Oregon

State University, Corvallis, Oregon, on May 25, 1970.

The June 17, 1970 edition of the "Monterey Herald,"

a daily paper in Monterey, California, advised SCHEER waS

campaigning on the Monterey Peninsula on June 16, 1970.

It noted he is the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for

the U.S. Senate.

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The Peace and Freedom Party is an anti

Vietnam War political party which obtained

sufficient signatures to be placed on the

ballot in California for the general

election held in November, 1968.

On July 24, 1970, a source advised SCHEER had

recently visited Paris, France, and left for Moscow on

July 10, 1970, in the company of ten individuals. He

carried five packages to be given to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER. (S)

SE T-3

July 24, 1970

The "San Francisco Chronicle," a San Francisco

daily newspaper.

issued an article in the July 13, 1970

edition entitled "Cleaver and Scheer Stop in Moscow."

The article stated "Elöridge Cleaver and Robert Scheer, a

California candidate for the United States Senate, arrived

in Moscow yesterday en route to North Korea with the ain

of expanding the American anti-war movement to include

U.S. involvement in Korea:

"Accompanying them were nine other American men

and women representing Cleaver's Black Panthers, student

strike groups, Women's liberation and GI protest groups.

"They leave today for Pyongyang, the North Korean

capital, where they will spend about a month

the guests

of the Committee for Reunification of Korea."

"The Black Panther," the official weekly paper of

the BPP, San Francisco, California, issued an article in

its August 8, 1970 edition entitled "Message From Anti-

Imperiälist Delegation of American People While Still En

Route to D.P.R.k." The article states as follows:.

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MESSAGE FROM ANT-SPENTIST

AMERICAN

AN PEOPLE KMIE STILL ONAOUL 100.0.0

NEW YORK (LNS)- delegution The Pentagon has a global stra-

revolutionaries entegy for dealing wich liberation

route to Korea sent the following Struggles. whether they be inside

message, written in aMoscowal-or outside the U.S. This strategy

Milk increasingly apply to anvanti-

Since the peoples of the world

Sisters and Brothers:

have & common enemy, we

a group of di peopla begin to think of revolution as un

wring to you from Moscov Air-Unternational stuegle against U,s,

port where we are waiting to talelperialism, Our struggle in the

a supersonic plane to Pyongyang US: is a genuine purt of the total

Democratic People's Republic ofrevolutionary assault on this enc-

Korca,

We were invited to make my. Understanding the Koreanpeo-

this trip by the International Sec-ple's struggle, and communicating

rion of the Black Panther Party, this to the American movefnent

In Korea, we will be the guestsis a crucial

step in developing

of the Commitiee for the Reini-this internationalist perspectivel

fication of Korea.

revolutionary

movementALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEI

organizations represented in our

delegation include the Black Pan-sPaRes 5000 100.2080%

Ann

thei: Party, the San Francisco Red&elers,

Gina

11-

Guard, Women's Liberation, thesides ClUed

Nobertsenger,

Peure and Freedom Party, News-Kandabald,

reel, and Movement for a Demo-lafianErse

Aiex

cratic Military. The purpose of Janet Krancberg.

this U.S.

people's delegation is to

express solidarity with the strug-

gles of the Korean people and to

bring back to Babylon information

about their communist society and

their

fight

against U.S.: im-

perialism.

Many

of

us

were raised

of

Korean War propaganda wiich to

tally distorted all of the basicfacts

of U.S. aggression against the peo-

ple of Korea. The Vietnam Wor

has clearly revealed to us thelor -

roIs of an aggressive war which is

very similar to the one fought 20

years ago in. Koren, & is crucial

to re-examine that missing period

of our history in order to under-

stand the events that will surely

unfold in Korea in the coming

months.

The Korean people have vowed

to free their fatherland from U.S.

imperialism and unite the country.

We have come tounderstandtiat

Black people in the United Stares

are treated

as an internal colony,

and are subject to the saine geno

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isni

are the peoples of Asia.

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As reported under the Organizations Section,

the "Evening Star,"

a Washington, D. C., daily newspaper,

contained an article in its July

• 13, 1970 edition

indicating SCHEER, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, and ten others were

flying to North Korea from MoscoW.

On August 18, 1970, SF I-19 furnished information

issued by the Pyong

Yang KCMA International Service in

English, Pyong Yang, North Korea, that SCHEER, CLEAVER, and

party had spent approximately one month "inside the

University of Revolution."

The "Herold and News," a daily paper published in

Livermore, California, in 165

August l6, 1970 edition issued

an article captioned

"Cleaver's Party Arrives in Hanot.

This group arrived in Hanoi, North Vietnam, after spending

about one month in North Korea, and were

welcomed by

DANG THAI NAI, Vice President, "Cormittee for Solidarity with

the American People."

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On September 16, 1970, SCHEER returned to New York

City and was öbserved at John F. Kennedy International

1 10170. h 23

Airport by a representative of the FBI.

The "Stanford Daily,"

"in the October 7, 1970

edition,

reported ROBERT SCHEER had been in Stanford,

California, participating in the debate.

D.:

Political Activities

"The Black Panther," the official weekly newspaper

of the BPP, published at San

Francisco, California, in the

April 18, 1970 edition stated "BOS SCHEER FOR U.S. SENATE

IN CALIF. ON THE PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY TICKET.

Scheer has

been Chairman of the International Committee to Defend

Eldridge Cleaver and is a former editor of Ramparts.

Bob Scheer has the full support of the Black Panther Party

in his candidacy. Scheer has been organizing, defense and

support committees for political prisoners around the country

and it is his hope that the campaign will excend that work."

The "Monterey Peninsula Herald," a daily paper

in Monterey, California, in the vune 1l, 1970, issue was

headlined

"Tosses Bombs - Scheer in Peninsula Canpaign."

The article went on to state as follows:

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"Robert Scheer, 34, the nominee of the Peace and

Freedom Party for U.S. Senate in California, took full

advantage of this role last night as he campaigned on the

Monterey Peninsula.

7.1e Santi

"He said the burning of the Bank of AMerica branch

at Isla Vista

was justified and 'I say "right on" to ic."

"He pledged to carry his campaign onto the Fort

Ord military reservation even if he gets arrested.

"He insisted that he is a serious candidate and

that the

Peace and Freedom Party is a serious political

organization.

"He said that P & F is not a single- issue party

(dedicated to an immediate end to the war in Vietnam)

was equally concerned with the problems of ghettos and other

matters of national concerno:

"Scheer said that he intends to wage a good dea.

of his campaign on military bases, primarily Fost Ord and

Camp Pendleton:

"He pians to have servicemen on base carry out

voter registration of fellow servicemen and that if the

military refuses permission for such action, 'I will be

laying the groundwork for a constitutional case.'

not a violent act., " bank when no one is in it is certainly

"He called the Bank of America 'a major agency

of violence in the world." They thought they had a franchise

on violence because they had the police and the Army on

their side both at home and abroad. "

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