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* much of the foot The credits at the end of Ihe docuinentary Mmentionsd ay ae networks and local Chicago telv- vision outfits as Bad source of , which raises a strong ability that the networks and TY station PID film at Ieastfpome of the ternative Conve BPeeches, UTNEVERBROADCAST THEA, Puly -on this police-made film was ihe material finally sired, AND OXLY THESE WORDS OF DAVIS’ QUOTED OUT OF CON- TEXT, WITHOUT NAMING THE SPEAKE R ANDWITHOUT SHOW- ING HIS PICTURE-~only the VOICE was broadcasi, and at the very beginning, to make it sound as -if the demonstrations in Chi- caco AEGAN on this note of re- volultion, instead of ENDING on it, aS Tt did, as f repsried im the Frecp, What was the next shot? You guessed it, Demonstrating Yip- pics: chanting “Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh!? to m2ke its leak and sound as if the unidentified volce talking about a Natiouel Liberation Freat was the keynote speech of the demonsirstions from the start and was a treasonous call to armed insurrection on the model of the Victnarma NLP ardiaspired, also, by-~and perl.-ps even or- ders froin, aS sore Rightists have hinted—-Ho Chi Minh him- self, During the whcle week the nevsmen had meade constant re- ference to the trips to Cuua and North Vietnam that Mobilization leaders like Dellinger andRennie Davis had teken in the past, with- oul the “briefing” and blessing of the State Department INNUENDO, as Hitler had shown in Nazi pro- pagenda, is a cardinal rute inthe art of the Big Lie. Daley's bright boys had learned THAT much at least from their Nazi-Fascist models, What next? The narrator, dis- playing some underground news- paper quotes: “November, 1967, The Village Voice, an under- ground newspaper, reparted Jer- ry, teader of the Youth Interna- tional Perty, known as the Yip- ‘pies, as saying, ‘See you next August in Chicaco at the Demo- eratle National Convention. Bring pot, fake delegate’s cards, smoke bomts, costumes, blood to throw, and al! kinds of interesting props. Also fcotball helitzis.! " (Note: later In the film we vere to sec football helmets displayed as *“weapons* uscd atainst the Chi- eaco fuzz by the biood-thirsty yippee . “ The narrator gocs on _cnating: *Mayy TYG. Ata moctlns of mill. tants from other groups it was announced that some §5 organi. RM Se eee Bee eo ee gations would move onto Chicago for The Battle of the Century, The present, 1968, Thomas J, Lyons wos asked, ‘When did you know these militants were coming io Chicago? Lyons: (presumably a police Intelligence officer) ' Al- most as soon as Chicaco was an- nouneed asa convention city plan- ners began to make plans to come into Chicago to demonstrate against the Convention and todis- rupt the city,’ “He was then asked how he ob- tained the information, ‘Well, in the beginning the Infor mation was coming from newsp2per articles, atiicies in the under ground press, which is used by the hip- pic. movement we. There were public : statements made by seve- rel leaders throughout the coun- try of the leftwing organizations, that they were going ta confront the Democrati¢ National Conven- tion, which they termed as the Death Party. *'The underground Press re- peatedly printed thrests of dis- ruplion of the city itself, Things such as nucc-ins, public fornica- tion, mass sit- dor: ns in the Loop arca, the taking over ci buildings There were reports in theunder- ground press that LSD would be put in the water system, “‘*There was 2iso information received from other intelligence units and agencies throughout the country that there were plans _to put ground glass in the food of the delcgates, We also received information of’a plot to firebomb the underground Grant Park ga- rage, We actually followed one individuel on this end, although he did not make the attempt, he certainly did scout the under- ground garage. “(Past experience with the yip- pie movement that New York City has had, has Indicated that they will carry out many of thelr threats, or at least ‘attempt to carry them out, The taking over of Grand Centra] Station lastyear by the ylpple element is evidence that they will try disruption, and have sucteaded In the past indo. Bare Svuntyuris os rss ing igre” ——s ~ ra an € we ay ass : ’ a Xt t= aoa Nolte the innuends in these sen- gations! disclosures '=~qav-éd from newspapers that could have been picked up on the sirects of any dig city in the U,S, for the past year, a Sherlock Hotines feet that required no more than the investment of 15 cents, 20 or 25 cents out of town. Note aiso the veiled end mys- terious reference to* oiler intel- ligence units and = agencics throughout the country.” Could these have been police spics whose undercover work consisted ‘of investing 15¢ in w.derground hewspzpers in thelr own tovns? Or were they, perhaps, the cops who broke in on Jerry Rubins in New York end beat him up and carted avay—what?—copies of ‘the Village Voice, Rat, the New York Free Press (displayed on the screen) and alist oftelephone humbers, perhaps? Or were they Los Angeles “Intelligence* unit detectives, with a Ist of surrep- ticiously taken mug shots and li- cense plate numbers? And what, while I’m in an en- quiring mood, was Commander Rk, F. Rock, identified in Daley's ee = f,