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BS 100-35505 "The NEWS learned exclusively Monday night that the American pilots will be put in custody of Zinn and Berrigan this week, and that all five Americans will leave Hanoi on Friday. lu Wrerker "In a related development, the7Vietnam Peace_ Committee in Hanoi, sent a telegram 1x6 the American peace movement! Monday,~a copy of which was supplied to the NEWS by Liberation News Service in Washington. tu) "The message from Hanoi recalls that the US ‘thas carried out aggression against South Vietnam for more than a decade,' and that in recent days, 'US authorities have again made the peoples' indignation more acute by their obdurate attitude refusing the humanitarian policy of the NLF on the occasion of the Tet festival truce." «4? The "New York Times", a New York City daily newspaper in its February 16, 1968 edition, on page 3 carriea an article datelined Washington, D. C., February 15, 1968, entitled "American Pacifist Says Hanoi Will Free 3 Today." The article stated that DAVE DELLINGER, on February 15, 1968, advised that he had received word from Hanoi that the North Vietnamese would free three captured American pilots tomorrow. DELLINGER, it stated, said he had received a telegram from Dr. HOWARD ZINN of Boston University, and the Reverend DANIEL BERRIGAN, a Jesuit Priest, both of whom are in Hanoi to receive the three American pilots from the North Vietnamese. The telegram, it stated, said they would fly to Vientiane, Laos, on the International Control Commission yp aiperatt U1] Pe The article identified the pildts as Oe pel BACK Lieutenant (j.g.), DAVID P,pifeTHENY and Major NORRIS M LOVERLY . " The Defense Department »éportedly declined to give the home towns of the three men. (u) The "Boston Globe", a Boston daily newspaper, in its February 19, 1968 edition carried an article captioned as follows: "Hub Man Who Helped Free POWs Raps U.S. Handling of Flight Home." This article reads in part as follows: H/ ~ 13 -