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Peare Center and stole the Cohen said there ought to be eace ‘enter and stole the a higtrtevel~investigation of law ; ma ag re a they~never got enforcement inactivity in the * pai ucote ase, “but I don't know whom,to cs Scherling and Gulermovi fn fall upon. You don’t send .in were mentioned by Ducote Typhoid Mary to fight an epidem- _<. being involved in other politic it of typhoid.” . "burglaries with him. They could Meanwhile, Ducote has told > ‘not be reached for ¢omment on state investigators that while he '-the Oakland Peace Center job. wasn't stealing documents in the beatae late 1960s he ‘was criss-crossing Ducote told agent Kubas that . he raised 340,000 from California - ‘the country raising money from farmers to fight UFW leader big businessmen , Sor Dur: -opera-..Cesar Chavez between 1965 and ton.” | 3970, and that he raised undis- Checks raised in this way, -he | closed sums from around the said in a statement on file in San ; country when he was not being a ‘Jose Municipal Court, were for- burglar. - warded ‘io a post. office box .tn {2216 r Willow, -Glen, Santa Clara county. In 1968, he said, he went to . ' Philadelphia at the request of Kenneth Wilhelm, then seere- P request 0: tary of the Santa Clara ‘county |» Stephen D'Arrigo, a Salinas Vai- ‘Farm Buteau, had the key to the: Jey farmer, and got J. Howan) st office box, Ducote safd:"* “Pugh, chairman of the board df fr --, Sun Oil Co. to send a $1000 checr . " Ducote, a former Santa Clara : to the Wiliow Glen post office bow. fa unty: sheriff's deputy and. fog Y at 14 "mer president of that county's . Ducote also said he picked up ; Young Republican Club, is*being.’ a $1500 check in Los Angeles from ~- ‘held in tieu of $100,000 bail: on’ 2! ..“a Mr. Hearst” at the Los Angeles i ‘Counts of concealing stolen’ docu’ “Herald Examiner in 1968. ments and grand theft. © #2 {eo iKAID oy “His léngthy statement kiven-~ ‘, - The im ewsp E aper was then to” state - .agent Walter _Kubas . and he explained (apparently to details how he burglarized the | headquarters of the United Farm nade %9 combat Chaver being . Workers in Delano, the San‘ J - Peace center, the Oakland: Peace’ :©* 7 Ducote said the $1500 chec yname afew. "+ "the Fire and Police Protectiv - “He performed these political League but the money “was hores, he said, with the backing outed back to our operation.” _-ot various farmers opposed to the . & °.2> TRU ae owith ers oP. hhasking AF Tt Ducote said he showed d Ma WH mt: a Bll WE . ertain businessmen, —~g .. ments stolen from Chavez, social Sept Tre et oe sMeess ho peformer Saul Alinsky and the Leos On one occasion . in 1967,7 San Jose Peace Center to Repre Pe tae ta ee le "Diicbte said,> sentative Charles Gubser (Rep. ‘the Inte William f ; Gilroy) and to various govern- Penn Patrick paid him $2000 Tor a: Ww. éopy of’ the § J -P ce “, ment intelligence agents in ash- Center's ‘mating Uist. ak. i 4 pe ce : Patrick, “head of “the multi: _ | He also showed | some of his million dollar cosmetics pyramid “stolen: “political documents, he known as Holiday Magic, also :Said,-.40,State. Senator Hugit Joe offered him §1400 for a tnailing, Burns, "then head of the Stath llist-of the Oakland Peace Center. ete 2 eAmerican Activities . & Ducote said in his . tthat a few days late -he’ "end Henry Scherling and Andy Guler- movnen tntered thé-OgkTind eee ee ec Mea ee