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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300590069-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2004
• Sequence Number: 69
• Publication Date: April 3, 1973
• Content Type: NSPR

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Y'ii35R JA. Enk-Or
l i e writer i, r o.ii?man of 61i',6,,'-)art-
f) . t , . pol.tau l .;e a'^.ee at r diggers
`Joie: rsir
F'I' C)A F' ADVICE fOr
not 11Iw.ely to confrout readers of
t.h:e straight' press. You could learn
ohat to (1o when you.:r dog ate
rnet- urma: ' 1tuluce the do'
g to vomit
lead the clog lawn :grass with garlic
salt, or somethin:, sweet like looney or
maple syrup ... 1G[nst of all talk to the
animal in a low, soolliin voice." You
conid find out where to buy grass at a
Probably t'ew nerrsnas mourn the
of brief oasm in U.&
j:,!.t alp ,r_r. But i.r. id r'dlect a place of
lniei icana, however distasteful to
semi. ar-ri is hid let some share their
c'aspt a t[on and loneliness, and
per- is some snail way, it did halo
uusa the conventional press into more
some coverage of what was
li:inuetring among many ut Lisa young
ar: o.;s the country.
r1a iE t;\DEIIGIIOU~;D PRESS, to be
.t_ sure, was no monolith. More often
than ant unclerg-round papers were edi-
ted and produced by collectives of
yntin men and women who used the
papers as the organizing concept
around which a way of life was built.
It flourished in barren lofts in the
t j e or North Beach or in dark
- C
basements on Telegraph -Avenue,
amidst cast-off furniture and wall post-
ecs. Unlike the toilers in city rooms of
the establishment press, some journal-
ists of the alternative media literally
picked their way through dog drop-
pings and old mattresses to meet their
haphazard deadlines.
They borrowed little from their dis-
tant establishment cousins. There were
no articles on how to invest wisely in
taX-free municipals, no letters to "pear
Abby," no Barden columns. Instead,
there :vere headlines like "Do-It-Your-
'Hash Pipes," "Blows Against the
Empire," and "Non-Specific Vaginitis."
"Peanuts" and "Dennis the Menace"
yielder[ to the unlovable "Fabulous
Furry Freak Brothers," three consum-
niate rne'er?-do-wells and their mangy
pot smoking cat, or to Robert Crumb's
hoarded curmudgeon, Mr. Natural, a {
wayward holy man whose sexual appe-
tite was all but insatiable.
Big-footed yokels in palazzo pants
Iii'ged the ,.eader to "keno on trucisin'."
._as'; mOruCCVc[. (nags drank Tree-
Fro,, Peer and ?'nrrag;ed In sadistic or-
;;Les of rape and mayhem. Lenore
Goldberg and her Girl Commandos, all
interracial flying squad of aggressive
feminists, sallied forth to crush male
chauvinism. Sweetstuff, the pubescent
runaway, sustained her street exist
ence by shoplifting and entertained
herself by making obscene gestures on
the street to the well-dressed and mid-
ii -e-aged.
dI scouat,,how Lo get a ride to a rock
festival, how to beat the draft.
Its classified 'ads reflected the de-
sires and desperation of some of Amer-
ica's Young: 'Will the guy who kept
ki sing the cheek of the girl with the
squirt ?eun in Old Town on Saturday,
April 10, ,,lease contact Laura Suz-
IOl N. California Street." Or
eanne
,
,
more typically: `?Nary Kecasiotis, or
anwo;ie knowing her whereabouts,
olease call her mother at home. She
was last seen wearing a white blouse,
plum pants, navy pea coat, and black
and white purse. Her parents only
.rant to talk, to her.'
And its "society" pages published
the soctat notices of dissent --.sched-
ules for marches on "v ashington, warn-
in;gs of undercover narcotics agents
lurking in the enclaves of the young -
and dealt with matters of etiquette un-
familiar to readers of Amy Vanderbilt:
:.Everyone smoking should be.responsi-
b1e for their roaches (butts). Roaches
left in ashtrays or just laid around are
extremely uncool."
Cut it is almost entirely gone now,
those nundreds of little papers we
:laid the unc!er30O59OO6923?e Tribe, like so
many later' 'efforts, was operated by a
collective, th oilnt= z 'Criss.
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The growth ?,of national radical or-
ga4dizations such as-_aDS.,resulted in a
surge of under rauncl publications of
v1r ;r? g Ali r,,Ehe journal of SIDS.
~ _y_~ fr lj je ,J as underground in
format acrd style blt~ explicitly politi-
cal, with none of the%eountercultural
- characteristics of the more generalized
papers. Local SDS chapters published
their own ;'pers, such a3 '....-Y,.flzt -.1
F.__ aL_~_mz_,Icj anti
Frog ?1,1x: i-e __i 7.cm,. These papers
competed with such publications of the
traditional Left as the Guardian,
which were relentlessly ideological
and unconcerned with cultural and
community reporting.
Each new radical group that
emerged went into print with its own
paper. The El &Pantne 4put out the
Bet c E?~nthez the nun.?`LQrds nub-
lished Palanta, and the F'rograssive L;1-
bor Party circulated Challen,
~e_.
A _S THE NUMBER of issues and
A causes expanded and the successes
of the left were supplanted by sectar-
ianism, an effect" very match akin to
!growth of specialized publications
For every radicalized group, a
ne,vsnape.? would he a predictable con-
comitant, and as the importance of the
overarching radical groups diminished,
the sects which followed in their wake
would go to press. Indeed, the organi-
zational rivalries which afflicted the
left in the late 19603- translated them-
selves into publishing wails and strug-
gles for the control of existing jour-
nals.
Women? oilecti, es offended by the
puta"rive mar.;r . mo ofmale-dominated
radical groups started Journals such as
R ,0 Our I3.acks! Homosexual
groups concerned about one move-
meat's insensitivity to their problems .
atunched Come Out!, W%;ocateand
ifastily edited underground
;oaoers appeared on military bases and
toga schools, and even in prisons a
incl '?c rcm.izdat press arose. .;Path-
.
hued co ,
rnr t ' gip !
H-u ()lIt LL,l 1. tr'[? l~r\..i ~l
` ot.e abecame the, subject of
'. an an,-t Progressive Labor _;roups.
Di_
art finally to Fare!.
e_;r. Time,
Cleaver 'action of
,rail. l sec. !lad nom the
-c,n i'ac`.ion. It predictably
Typical of the problems the papers
it