AMERICAN PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORLD YOUTH FESTIVAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-02563

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SUBJECT: American Participants in the World Youth Festival
I. DESERTERS
a. John Bender, a Puerto Rican. (FBIS, Havana in
Spanish to Americas 7 August 1968.)
b. The following six names appeared in a New York Times
article of 7 August 1968 and have been referred to in UPI releases:
1. Bill Jones (William Cuthbert Jones), 20, of St.
Louis, Missouri.
2. Mark A. Shapiro, 20, of San Francisco
3. Charles Tonnen (or Onan) 18 or 20 years of age.
Deserted Marines in early 1968. Lives in Stockholm.
From Redwood City, California.
4. Steve Gershater (or Gerachter or Crushader), 20
of New York City.
5. Walter Melvin Woods of New Orleans
6. John Picciano (or Pikiano), 20 of Jersey City,
New Jersey.
II. MEMBERS OF US DELEGATION
a. Vicki Eskin of Los Angeles. (Bulgarian evening
newspaper Vecherni Novini 5 August 1968.)
b. Midi Thompson of New Jersey (Bulgarian press of
30 July.)
c. Alexander Franklin (Bulgarian press of 30 July.)
d. Annie Gordon, a librarian from New York (Bulgarian
press of 30 July.)
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LU. OTHERS
a. Jose Ristorukki, Dubois Club representative at Festival
(FHIS, Moscow TRUD 28 July 1968.)
b. The following three were named in the Bulgarian evening
newspaper Vecherni Novini of 5 August 1968:
1. Carlton Gudlet, M. D., member of Committee for
International Solidarity.
2. Rani Heller, female student from New York.
3. Michael Gold, medical student from New Jersey.
c. Pilisiya Kalb, member of the Festival committee, an
active participant in the movement for stopping the war in Vietnam,
is going to go to a Festival for the first time. (Komsomolskaya
Pravda,. 21 July 1968.)
d. Pauline Szolow of Festival Preparatory Committee.
(Sztandar Mlodych, Warsaw 26 July 1968.)
e. The following four are mentioned as WYF attendees in a
29 July UPI release (UPI-149).
1. Lawrence Bertheaud, 21 of New Orleans, La.
2. Kenan Fulks. 23 of Boulder, Colorado
3. Gary Macton
4. David Gottlieb
f. Alan Young of American SDS was at the Festival.
(Source unknown).
g. Ken Bailee from the Black Power Movement in the
U.S. was at the Festival. (Source unknown).
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IV. USA REPRESENTATIVES ON THE INTERNATIONAL
PREPARATORY COMMITTEE
a. Fiallo, Linstson, aka Cintron Fialla, Federico. Born
1943 in Puerto Rico where he resides. Became vice president of
IUS in May 1965. He has significant Latin American responsibilities.
He appears to be a committed Fidelista. He is in agreement with the
Chinese on a few issues. Speaks English, Spanish, and Czech. He
is associated with Federacion de Universitarios pro-Independencia
(FUPI) and IVLovimiento pro-Independencia de Puerto Rico MPIPR).
His posts in IUS are member of the Latin American Commission
(LAC). Member of the propaganda and publicity Commission and
Chief of the Bureau of Students against Colonialism (BSAC) SECRET
b. Zagarell, Michael born 1944 in New York, where he resides.
He is the American Communist Party's 1968 Vice-presidential candidate.
He is the Communist Party's National Youth Secretary. In July 1968 he
was awaiting trial for an anti-draft demonstration in New York.
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