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SITUATION INFORMATION REPOR I
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. 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-
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and order:
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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
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tion is produced by a new Chicago-based organization called the-
Conccrncd Vctcrans from Victnam (CVFV).
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According to its literature. .the CVFV cvolvcd from an otpani-
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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.
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now has its central offices in Chicago and claims chapters are currently
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The CVFV's goals are outlined in a ten-point program which is
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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-
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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
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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 .
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