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MED Pee ge ae Yee .. : f Wee: nist OR CRE We Oho me ge ee Cana ee oe een by ba ened aa SF’ Oka Cdathi Bd de wels & ‘x Ue et ake ee Fie 2 TN oe ae teas encli al Se a, OC Pe NY 100-161445 used for disruptive purposes, including sending these devices into crowds by means of attaching them to dogs. "The Village Voice”, a New York City weekly newspaper, in its October 9, 1969 issue, on page 22, under the heading "Scenes", contained an article which stated as follows concerning the subject's book entitled "Woodstock Nation”, “ALREADY TWO publications are burning up the presses to coincide with the Chicago trial games. One book is called the ‘Official Pogrom' and helps warm up each side's spirit during the confrontation of the ‘Chicago Conspiracy' Team (whose mascot is an albatross on itsback)}-versus-.the. 'Washington | Kangeroos' team (whose mascot is a kangaroo with a pig springing from its pouch). “Phe second pre-game prep rap will come out somewhat behind schedule. Abbie Hoffman's book ‘Woodstock Nation,' a free flight but ultimately bum trip documentation of Abbie's adventures in Bethel, was written in five days off the skuil, so that the proceeds could go to the defense fund in Chicago. It was speeded to the printers in Philadelphia, but one of the printers got the chauvinistic shakes and decided he was aiding and abetting subversive activity. The police arrived. and loitered around, but didn't have a warrant; the next day the FBI visited the premises but were dissuaded when it was pointed out that the same press also printed J. Edgar Hoover's "Abbie's book maps a private nightmare; it's ‘an attempt to recapture the mess that was up in Woodstock and out there in the Pig Nation. I also try to open the door to the mess that is in my head and yours. The medium is the mess.' It free-associates on his experiences in both ‘Woodstock Nation’ and 'Pig Nation', indicates the insanity of both but the better madness in Woodstock. His confession is that he couldn't figure the festival, fight it, or sink into it, because from his vantage point it would be more effective if all that power would produce some thorns before flowers. ‘Maybe it wouldn't have been a bad place to do all that groovy stuff...maybe -55-