LITTLE BROTHER IS WATCHING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100360022-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: January 29, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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GAZETTE AN 2 9 1976
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It began, in February of 1973, at the-50th. birthday
party of Norman Mailer. There were 500 people at
the Four. Seasons in New York and they paid $30
each and some very stiff drinking was in evidence.
Mailer stood up and told the crowd where its money
was going. ,The money would create a tax -.free
foundation called "The Fifth Estate,'.' he said..
The Fifth Estate would be "a democratic secret
Dnce war was attopic that cut across
college carnpuses. and swelled into,
giant rallies. On Wednesday night the
crowd count at.Read Field House was
_I0,519 'or a basketball game: hut;
spoke to 66 persons in Roomn' 2302,
Sangren Hall.
police, a people's FBI and a people's CIA to inves-
tigate? those two," he said.. "If we have a real basketball' game:,'Butz spoke to 66 persons at Room
democratic secret police to keep-tab on Washing .. 2302; Sanoren Hall.ton's secret police,.,which isn't democratic,' but _.talk was sponsored' by two campus groups,
bureaucratic, we'll then be able to see how-much of The Committee for a Democratic Foreign Policy
our paranoia is justified," he said.:..' and the`Southern African Liberation Committee:
Wednesday night, Tim Butz of The Fifth Estate Chris Root, a Washington, D.C., lobbyist, and Bar-
sat in a lecture room at Western Michigan Univer- bara Marsh; of the Michigan Free Press, a counter--
sity and talked about how the work is going. "The culture newspaper in.Ann. Arbor, also spoke.'
.CIA now is. on the run," he said., But the job is not Miss Root recited the history of Angola. "The
;.done, he said. "We have one hell of a job on our history of oppression, and its result in Angola, is
rands," tie said. indeed a very long; one, she said.: "Colonialism
s es:- Butz is co - editor of The Fifth Estate's Angola, it was an especially harsh one.'r
quarterly 'newsletter, Counter; .=, Spy.. When CIA The war in. the African country is between those
station chief Richard Welch was gunned down last , that would have "neo. - colonialism" and'those that
month in: Greece, the newsletter was blamed for want "true independence," she said. She. said the
blowing his cover...., MPLA (the Popilar Movement for the Liberation of
.Butz is 28, a veteran of 19 months in Vietnam who.Angola) is fighting. for the ."self-determination of
came home in 1966 to Kent State University in Ohio -Angola "
and the antiwar movement. He is a stocky guy with a The MPLA has Soviet backing.. The U .S. monies
light brown beard. On Wednesday night, he wore a., have been going to'the other side
she said
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blue leisure suit. A red tie was pulled loose at the CIA, Butz said, "Angola is just going to be one more
collar:. His right hand waved a pencil in small arcs as along a long,: long list," For the CIA, Butz said, it is
He said the CIA has a 30 -year record of "murder, "multinational corporations."
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The talk went for more than two hours and then
forms of horror throughout the world." The record is there were audience questions and Butz said there
continuing in the war in Angola, he said. was a big job of pu'lic education to do.
Once, when the newspaper datelines said Saigon, He spoke to a lNgture room of students who grew
war was a topic that cut across college campuses lip with a war on`nightly television We must work
,
and swelled into pant rallies. On Wednesday night, Butz said, to'clear away "the bleakness that we see
the crowd count at Read Field House was 10,519 for a in our, lives in: the 19170s.",
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