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_ country. (U) BS 100-35505 On January 5, 1968, a Federal Grand Jury at Boston, Massachusetts, returned an indictment charging the Reverend WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR., MICHAEL FERBER, MITCHELL GOODMAN, MARCUS RASKIN and Dr. BENJAMIN SPOCK with a continuing conspiracy to aid, abet and counsel violations of the Selective Service laws, namely a violation of Title 50, United States Code, Appendix Section 462(a). The indictment alleged a conspiracy calling for a nation-wide program of resistance of the operations of the Selective Service System including the counseling, aiding and abetting of Selective Service registrants to resist the draft, the counseling, aiding and abetting of registrants to surrender Classification and Registration Certifieates and interruption of the induction process at induction centers throughout the On January 29, 1968, in United States District Court, Boston, Massachusetts, all of the above named five individuals pleaded not guilty to these charges. (ul) ‘ On January 19, 1968, BS T-4 provided a leaflet entitled "STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR: Benjamin Spock, Michael Ferber, William Sloane Coffin, Marcus Raskin, Mitchell Goodman." The statement reads as follows: ta) "We stand beside the men who have been indicted for support of draft resistance. If they are sentenced, we, too, must be sentenced. If they are imprisoned, we will take their places and will continue to use what means we can to bring this war to an end. /\,\ "We will not stand by silently as our government conducts a criminal war. We will continue to offer support as we have been doing to those who refuse to serve in Vietnam and to those indicted men and all others who refuse to be passive accomplices in war crimes. The war is illegitimate and our actions are legitimate." (u) Among the signers of the above statement was the name HOWARD ZINN. (4) According to BS T-4, this leaflet was sponsored by an organization calling itself "Resist", 763 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139. (\)