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Abbott Hoffman, Aka — Part 22

127 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Sep 10, 1968 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Abbott Hoffman, Aka · 127 pages OCR'd
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—o — 74 . * ‘ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGA), ON coNNDENTIAL Dore. September 13, 1968 _ Lincoln Park, from Saturday, to Friday, August 30, 1968. On Tuesday, August 27, 1968, at approx- imately 9:30 p.m., ABBIE HOFFMAN was observed gaving a Speech to 200,or 300 or possibly more, indi uals in Lincoln Park. He said he was in the A =o and it was difficult to judge the size of the crowd. Most of the crowd were "hippies" and were smoking pot. He related the plans they were going to ensue the following few days. He said there were two groups, the second group being at Grant Park. He said they were in a bad area because the lighting was not very good, while the group at Grant Park had good lighting. He told the crowd they were not going to leave the park that night at 11:00 p.m., and they will meet the police with whatever violence is needed. He suggested that they wear motorcycle or football helmets and gas masks if they have them, He told them to get whatever weapons were available to use to combat the police. He told the crowd to use golf balls and drive nails and spikes through them. He also said beer bottles are good weapons and half bricks are better than stones because they are sharper. He said that to counteract mace to use vaseline on their face. He told them to use oven cleaner if they have any, but that is not good because you have to get close to use that. On..9/13/68. ot SAs q by Date dictote! Chicago, Illinois File#_CG 176-28 thie document contoins nether retommendetions ner cenctusions of the FBI. Il « the property of the FBi and ts loaned to your agency; 4 and 113 contents are not to be distributed eviside your agency. 7 ADT S ea. ovr re ene gna eee”
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