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. . ' c SITUATION INFORMATION REPOR I ---e 0 . From an intclligcnce bulletin of a Government agency comes ..-forma tion on anothcr black organizatibh. tary Gieterans, should its control and direction bc turned toward cx- trcme militance and violcnce. it could be asignific'ent threat to law Composed of Ncgro mili- . and order: W Attesting to the existence of unsolicited- anti-war documents arriving in Victnam is the recent receipt by the Da.Nang Air Base NCO CJub of 20 copies of a four-page newspaper entillccl The Nani - Vet . tion is produced by a new Chicago-based organization called the- Conccrncd Vctcrans from Victnam (CVFV). ' - -- Written primarily for Negro service personnel, this publica- # sclrs -g I.-/* 6 w P L --- - 0 . According to its literature. .the CVFV cvolvcd from an otpani- -- Thc lalter group was ?.)..! <? b oation callcd tlic Negro Vcterans from Vietnam. fornrcd in March 1968 by scvcral Ncgro Seabecs who wcrP "disgusted .with the racial atmosphcte at C a m Ranh Bay" and who hopcd to'tffcc- tively combat r a c i s m in the military. 'I From that beginning thc CVFV being formcd in Los Angeles. Spokane. Oklahoma City. Norfolk. Detroit. New York City, and San Diego. * now has its central offices in Chicago and claims chapters are currently i: - The CVFV's goals are outlined in a ten-point program which is . ncarly equally divided between securing direct benefits for Ncgro veter- anR and working for the improvement of Negro neighborhoods. ample. thc f i r s t three points of the program are aimed at finding "mean- in&" cniploymcnt for veteransr briefing veterans on available benefits . and "clraltcngingt8 all sectors of the economy to imFrove the lot of rcturn- inp scrviccman. The fourth point notcs thr *roup will utilitc all aveilnhlc ~ C S O ~ I ~ C C S to "invcstigatc and combat any discrimination Ar bigotry rc-porlvcl by tscrviccp*ii. whcrcv'cr tlrry arc? slationcd. ': Thc fiflh and sixlh pr'ints rclnlc lo inriiiing a lobby i n Wanhingtm, D. C,. tn booqt the 'CVFV's c(;\t~sc?s and cocrpc: ration wUlr othcr mprc cs tablishccl w t c ratis grtmps. The organization's f o u r , r e m a i n a G o a l a deal with improving ttfe neigh- borhood living conditions 6f the newly-returned 6 e t ~ i C e m e m b e r . For ex- t Point . - Y \ . 7-- ~