WHO CONTROLS THE VIETALKS? TODAY WILL TELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200150006-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW, YORK
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-fl T5 W49R000200150006-1
OCT 21- 1967
`These are the times that try men's souls. The sum-
mer Soldier and t e suns h me patriot will,, in this crisis,
lthr --from ,tlhe, seervice of Ilia country; but he that
ancls_itnow,deserves the love and thanks of man-and
11Iil;3_ts or. "-clew- left" Sympa-
thizers lac nationahats or hippies, draft cardburners ,
tlavid Dellinger, 52, of Hampton, N.J., Is the guiding force
! ehind the "confrontation with the war machine" at the Pentagon.
He is a paunchy, self-described "non-Soviet type Communist" and
editor of the Greenwich Village-published Liberation magazine.
Dellinger served a three-year prison term during World War 11
for refusing to register with Selective Service as a conscientious
objector. He visited North Vietnam and Communist China in late
1966 and returned to Hanoi last fall where he had a personal inter-
view with North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh. In 1964, he.
visited Cuba and praised Fidel Castro's regime.
Dellinger, as chairman of the National Mobilization Committee
to End the War in Vietnam, initiated plans for the demonstration
last May at a closed meeting held in a private school here. He was
joined by Arnold Johnson, the Commie =party's national public vela-
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Soldiers erect high, chain-link fence near the Pentagon. --Bettina Patheker, Archie Brown and ames Jackson.
defense to-counter- any insane.,- attempt, as threatened by march Exercise to Mass Civil Disobedience
leaders, to storm the Pentagon, and keep employes from entering or But the worm has turned. Dellinger and his more radical or-
leaving the defense cojnplex._ ganizers believed the country bad seen enough of "hearts and flow-
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Weare of o eizepcting,
ra high government source told ~1HE ers demonstration:" They, wanted an exercise in mass civil disobe-
1 WS, comme-fltin on the beefed up security force that has been dience. .
activated tool, with the col)trontatioll., but er sincere- peace advocates, ranging from middle-class
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into, the capital. One rally lea er sal to ay that the demonstrators have suddenly avwakened to the enormity of Dellinger's plot and the
would-dIilzee_violate government restrictions- set down in a possl it y that an uncontrolled demonstration might produce violent
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