PROMISE TO BE 'GOOD' 6 REVOKED PASSPORTS ARE RENEWED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800080005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: October 3, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Washington Daily News
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Promise to 4e 'Good'
6 Revolted Pan S ar 4 Are, o we
By It. H. BOYCE
Scrlpps.Howard StaH Writer
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were issue new-p ass p o r t a. male a orma notice of revo- special list at all dvimrtur
Six of 27 Americans whose
passports were revoked for
,,going to North Vietnam in defi-
ance of a State Department ban
on such travel have received
new valid passports, the depart-
ment disclosed today.
The six are Herbert Aptheker,
an admitted communist and di-
rector of the American Institute
for Marxist studies: David Del-
linger, magazine editor now or.
801419 an Oct, 21 anti - Viet-
nam war demonstration at the
Pentagon: Lena Greene, Ameri-
can born wife of British jounal-
ist Felix Greene. John Christo-
pher Koch. New York radio an-
nouncer; Harold Supriano, an
unemployed California is o c i a l
worker; and John Gerassi, not
otherwise identified.
All six signed an affidavit
?
promising they would not again- cause he traveled to Communist trivgl,abrpafjipttl>c?f tigrg,with~ of U.S. reata ctior-si tdo; nit..:
travel to restricted _areas, and Chtna_i Jutl, `s-, Carr ichaeL waisince xs namny; 1 Aigi,1p.Y~?taxnp, ,p~& p '1d+.i
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r t t i s p h osop er ertran - in nary, Guinea at last
Russell and another of the 27 report - after touring North
whose travel cost them their Vietnam. North Africa and the
passports, also promised to "be Middle East. His illegal trip to
good" and was given a new North Vietnam began Aug. 28.
passport. But- Mr. Sehoenman after his passport had already
then made a second for. - bidden. been revoked.
Canada or Mexico and
from there.
restored, could promise not to
violate restrictions ago i and
get his passport reinstated.
trip to Hanoi and lost his new In Cuba, Mr. -Carmichael at- Meanwhile, there were reports
passport. tended the Havana meeting of that the State Department would
The department- added to the the Latin American solidarity revoke the 1)a-,sport nt lli s.
list of 27 the name of Richard organization -which plotted guer- woDagmar Wilson of Washington,
.via i t e d Hanoi in September, called for "armed ti t r it g g l e
1965. The 28 persons visited Ha against U. S. imperialism" by
not at various times between U.S. Negroes.
1964 and this summer and the Presumably Mr. Carmichael
revocations were ordered by the still holds his passport. When
State Department 'as it learned and if he returns to the U.S..
of their travels. authorities at his port 'of entry restrictions, with a penally Uf up
It was also disclosed. that the may ask him to surrender it. to,five years and $2000 fine. But
department has r e v o k e d the . But that is not necessary and it is. almost impossible .to prove
passport of Negro black power the point would not be pushed if , "use" of the passport since ofti-
4n-ilitant Stokely Carmichael be. he resisted. He cannot legally vials in Cuba andHHappi
pwat?e
for Peace Movement. for mak-
ing a trip to Nonni h.0 mnntfa.
Other than revocation. thcr is
.no clew punishment for violat-
ing State Department t r a v e l
bans. Federal law prohibits will-
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