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NY 100-161445 September 29, 1968, in Washington, D. C. and that another rally would be held on Tuesday night, October 1, 1968, at Georgetown University. The press conference ended at 2:15 pm; however, various individuals continued interviews at the insistance of the press. During one of these interviews, ABBIE HOFFMAN made disparging remarks concerning the Director of the FBI, J. EDGAR HOOVER. by 2:40 pm, all of the individuals attending the press conference had dispersed. SAs of the FBI obtained a copy of an NECLC news release dated September 25, 1968, following a meeting of the NMC held in the Commodore Hctel in New York City on ( ) September 27, 1968. iA This news release stated in part as follows: "The National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee today condemned the forthcoming House Un-American Activities Committee hearings as an ‘attempt by the Johnson Administration to use every mechanism at its disposal to legitimize the action of Mayor DALEY and the Chicago police. It is a continuation of the crack- { down on dissent which began in Chicago under the aegis (i+) of Mayor DALEY, but it is now being openly taken over by the Federal Government’. . "Both the HUAC hearings and the harassment by. the FBI of persons who were in Chicago--inéluding . delegates to the Convention shows that the government is not really interested in an investigation of what happened in Chicago, but in discrediting the peace ( j ie -hovement and the people who went to Chicago to exercise their constitutional rights'. "'In all of its history the House Un-American Activities Committee has functioned only to penalize individual Americans for exercising their rights to free speech, press, assembly and association and to stifle such exercise on thé part of others by creating fear of similar penalties', (W)