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CONFIDENTIAL NY 100-161445 ! CONFIDENTIAL “spirit of Woodstock.! “Hoffman, while saying he had enjoyed his stay in St. Thomas, had a few insights to give into the life of a notorious enemy of the establishment. He claimed that Federal agents had visited his house several times looking for fugitives and had kept him under surveillance. He said that when follow Chicago Seven defendant Jerry Rubin visited him recently, “Federal and local authorities were "all over the place" when he met Rubin at the airport. Public Safety Commissioner Eldridge Waith denied knowledge of this, however. “Revealing another side of his character, he said that one reason for putting aside his public side and retiring to seclusion here was to spend more time with his child, Amerika. iJ Hoffman, who holds a master's degree in psychology, said that he greatly enjoyed participating in the raising of the child to a greater degree than most fathersdo. ‘I wish I had the patience to do the research for a post-Spock book on this,’ he said. “Hoffman had some unflattering remarks to make about St. Thomas. ‘It's a sick place,’ he charged, ‘I believe any place which depends on tourists and serving other people develops a kind of neurotic character. That and the fact that it is actually a colony make it unhealthy.' He also stated that he thought the women's liberation movement was more needed here than on the mainland. "Walking through town, Hoffman paused at a bookstore and looked in. hey don't sell my last book here,’ he said, referring to ‘Steal This Book,’ a work that was turned down by 30 publishers, in large part because of the title. Before leaving to meet his wife, he paused on the sidewalk to offer one final observation on the winds of change that he has, in large part, been responsible for, ‘I talked to some North Vietnamese in Paris and they pointed out one thing. Our generation prevented the United States, the most powerful nation in the world, from defeating, in war, a basically primitive society. I think that indicates that we can exercise power. =~ 3 - - CONFIDEMTIAL CONFINANTIAL