◆ SpookStack

ABBOTT HOFFMAN, ALSO KNOWN AS ABBIE HOFFMAN brass bullet and told him "this bullet has got your name on it." Hoffman said "are you kidding?", when asked by reporters at the press conference if he was going to make a complaint to either local or Federal officials concerning the alleged threats on his life. Hoffman stated FBI agents visited him every third day in New York City to obtain background information concerning people and asked where finances come from for YIP activity and also ask for infor- mation concerning his own activity. Hoffman stated he has asked FBI Agents why they €0 not investigate police brutality in Chicago, and in all cities across the nation, He asserted all the FBI agents do is laugh at these suggestions. Hoffman reported he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan, when he was working in the civil rights movement in Miss- issippi. He reported on that occasion he furnished FBI agents complete information concerning the shooting. Hoffman said all the FBI did on that occasion was to “just take notes and nothing has been done about it to this day " Hoffman predicted YIP would continue with “theatre activity” in the United States and wold appear at polls on election day and vote for their selected candi- date, the "pig." He stated "theatrical events" would replace demonstration activity as such by YIP in the future and would occur in opposition to every candidate for national office. “ Hoffman stated the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is “hokey, a phony, publicity grabbing outfit that let the movement down during the Chicago activity." He noted that plans had been made prior to the Chicago demon- stration activity for the ACLU to set up a procedure to handle arrests, bail, and prosecution activity concerning demon- strators who were arrested. The ACLU people did nothing, but sit in their fancy offices in Chicago during Bemonstra- tion activity, while the people in the streets were being beaten to death. ACLU did not have anyone at the demonstra- tion scene; and did not have any organization set up to handle the arrest problems of the demonstrators. Hoffmann reported the Chicago Legal Defense Committee (CLDC), 127 North Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois, is -6-