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SSS FROM :C. D. Srennan Wiley . q * , - ersionat FORM NO. 10 5070-105 . . . * ‘UNITED STATES C@#RRNMENT q of, boleh — iA io- Mr. Dexoach Bishop /Aemorandum L-Mr. Bishop. - Sa ; i - Mr. W.C. Sullivan Conrad Gale © TO ‘Mr. W. C. Sullivan _ DATE: 1/31/68 Foes —p— pseteted Tavel ov - i -~ Mr. C.D. Brennan ye pone: — 1 - Mr. Thompson Hoimes Gandy x suiyecT: TRAVEL OF TWO INDIVIDUALS TO NORTH VIETNAM, 1/31/68, TO CONTACT UNITED STATES Ay PRISONERS OF WAR COBUSEi: — aI | INFORMATION CONCERNING “— 1 (INTERNAL SECURITY) O Howard Z2xnn aA “be PURPOSE: $a “a Ai To recommend that information regarding plans of two individuals active in the antiwar movement to travel to North Vietnam today be disseminated by teletype to the White House, State Department, Central Intelligence’ Agency, and military intelligence agencies. ‘ALL INFORMATION CONEAENED WS" HERELN IS: UNCLASS: LPIED Cone é t BACXGROUND: PATE_|= 19-9 BY, “spin During the evening of 1/30/68 we received infor- mation from the Office of Naval Intelligence indicating that Thomas Hayden, a prominent New Left activist who recently ~- traveled to North Vietnam and was involved in negotiations with the North Vietnamese for the release of three U.S. — --» prisoners of war, has advised the wife of a Navy prisoner of war that David Dellinger, a member of a recentiy formed committee of antiwar leaders working for release of prisoners of war, is sending a Catholic priest and a professor to, North Vietnam. today, to, attempt to contact U.S. prisoners of wary” “Neither the priest mor the professor were further identified, but Bureau files indicate that Monsignor ; Charles 0. Rice, a Catholic priest from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Staughton Lynd, Assistant Professor of History at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois; both of whom are outspoken critics of U.S. policy in Vietnam, are also members | or the committee. Recent newspaper publicity has indicated that the North Vietnamese will relcase three additional prisoners of war in the near future and it is quite possible that the two representatives being sent by Dellinger to Novth Vietnam will attempt to negotiate the release of these prisoners. {OO — 36 onl J— Pee Apatins beter tenovim® — Adasabianetmeete Pe * women ay . .- a & fr lee siclosure ir { | FEB 8 1268 eee ser Kee Qo. V/ A en x | CONTINUED — OVER «baie Th preepees ane » INT. SEG, 7 eb 14 ‘1968 raf ny