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BRR ot Ais BE Te ae NY 200-262 GONFID {NTIAL | "Abbie Hoffman: ; j "Well, I was persuaded, "e was about 2:00 a.m. and I was persuaded in my hall to cone and visit there.....the most..eothe thing that stuck out most in their mind was when we had had a demonstration outside the FBI building, TI mean, it's,..they really don't care too much about what you do about the rest of tne country it's sort of lixe unit unto themselves and (unintelligible) you know for their own ' best of interest. Have you noticed a change inogthem because they were quite rough this time with me, in fact, I had written if you're gonna get arrested you should get arrested by the FBI because they're very nice about it but this time they were quite rough and I thought I had attributed to their inability to catch any of the, you ANOW , young fugitives, young radical fugitives that are on the Ten Most tlanted list and their inability to process people involved in some of the bombings that are going on. Do you feel they're acting differently? "Abbie Hoffman: "Maybe I could....tnis was one of the incidents and of course NBC found out about and this micht have been one of the clues as to why Jonn Chancellor wasn't here. About a ~ week ago I gave a speech at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, at which I made some corments about hip culture being devoid of politics, people turning on and not getting involved. in politics and without politics the culture meant crap. And to illustrate the point, I pulled out a switchblade and I carry that around to different speeches and I hacked off a hunk of...a hunk of locks and threw them down on the stage to dramatize the point, And a lot of peovle got up toox photographs as they invariably do and tnere was an AP story that was at least...that got quite distorted and the story that John Chancellor broadcast on NBC went something like this. “In Madison, Wisconsin, now it became Wisconsin - and not New Jersey, Aboie Hoffman told all young kids to get haircuts, He himself had been to the barber shoo and had got a crew cut and they showed the following picture of me, Is it on. It's on, yeah. Now, this isia really interesting -~ 21- CONFIDENTIAL =