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MOVEMENT - ROLE OF THE US ACTIVISTS - THREATS TO FREE SOCIETY

NCJ Number
40960
Author(s)
F M WATSON
Date Published
1977
Length
16 pages
Annotation
THIS PAPER PRESENTS AN OVERVIEW OF LEFTIST, REVOLUTIONARY, AND TERRORIST GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES.
Abstract
PROJECTIONS OUTLINED IN A 1972 JUDICIAL MEMORANDUM ON RADICAL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES HAVE COME TO FRUITION, ACCORDING TO THIS PAPER. THOSE PROJECTIONS, THE POWELL MEMORANDUM, POINTED OUT THAT LEFTIST ORGANIZATIONS WOULD ATTEMPT TO DISRUPT THE STATUS QUO WITH VIOLENCE AND OTHER MEANS. THE NAMES AND METHODS OF SEVERAL OF THE PROMINENT REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS ARE GIVEN. THEIR ATTEMPTS TO RECRUIT ETHNIC MINORITIES AND THEIR ACTIVITIES INSIDE UNIONS ARE DESCRIBED. THE PAPER URGES THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STEPS TO COMBAT THESE REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS, BUT ADVISES AGAINST INITIATION OF A WITCH-HUNT....BDS