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... In JnoUary 1968, Nayden As in .Cuba for the cultural Congress .. of Ravan8, at which the United Stateo was condemned for its "role of world-wide impcrlaliat B&~~CSEOF" and support vas p l d s d to the Vlct- naorese pc?ople In their s t w e against the United States. netu~ning t o new York (XtY, e a Mrtxlco City, by air ou 22 Jaouaqr lgc8, his bagg- ma mistakenly sent to I?m Orleans, where -toms lnopection revealed considerable material r e f l e c t i w the involvcmnt of various persons on the staff of Llberntion tqazine, M anti-war monthly publf- mtioa, with hrican prisoners i n detention ccunps in Vietnam and wit11 their relatives In tlrc. United States. Hasden, who wes*in~olved in cnrry- ing l e t t e r s from Ameriq~n pxisonerc, vag an Assfstant Mitor of Libera-. tion, uhooe Wftor was. self-styled "non-Soviet tyFc conmnurist" mk-e m i n g e r 8nd motheraof whose Aasistant Editors vos Staughton Lynd. Hayden MS involved in the Poor rcoplc'6 cqnim i n Walhington ant3 10 April 1968 was done t h e spcakers at a rnlly i n a -orgetown Park on '*my Md Washington Ihun?". Othcr spcokcrs included Dick Gregory, l e f t i s t rJeg2.0 comedian; Rev. J w s &vel of the ,%them Christian Leadership Conference; and Arthur W ~ K W , atla J U ~ ~ U S Iloboon; Washiagtoa activists. These, according to the NCW York Tlmeo tfwazinc of 9 June 19@, %COuTged t h e i r white Uateners for t h e x m f r - - - reported t h a t Haflcnt8 comments i n c l p d e a q m e n t i n connection %th the death of Martin Luther King t h s t "the F8I. ond CIA did it.'. 's . Hayden vas arreSt;cd during the Columbia Unlveraity riots of ).lay lgm; aad during that month qult his position as jsltistont: Editor of . Liberation magazine and vent t o Chicqo to vork vith the Inic. lie was cited i n 8 k Y 196s H m report on "Guerilla Warfare Advocates in the Unlted States", which noted that &cy leaders of the Sm " o ~ n l y rndical - . and lefttet", have given "open-support" to g t r r r i l l n mrfare I n Llte U S - l'hc report deaplbed tiayden as a former SD!j president who "et-llocd the RAM philosophy when he said h u r t interview he grnntcd the Cornnu- nist weekly newspaper The National Cunrtltnn: 'Urban guerillas are the only reoliotic alternntLvcG at tliis time to electorni politics or ~ 0 3 m e d reofstonce.'"; end it aoted that "Dee Jncobocn, Acsletant rJntlonn1 r'kcretary of sE# vho wrnagea the orgnnizstion'R national .' t h e l r racism and their Vloleace". The EKminer, 19-21 April 19@, e 0 . 8 . - ----.-. * * , Iiendqwutcrs i n Chicago, has 6aia: 'We are getting rcndy for the -_ 11. revolution. 81' ?. -i 0 :;i !ik :.i. -- * -s$ - .. ----- I \ --: b .;i _ - _- - /-i- --I---- - - -- -- 1 I\ w!.: . I - ! ! I I $ 1 rcs Y