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ee ee | 1 , wet : 4 ~~ Mo . SS 5 Rk ee et state at according to a telephone conversation he had with | _ Abbie BBPffman, who, with others, proposed the idea of tha.s | YippieR Festival of Life scheduled for August 25-30, 1968; in Chi€ago and are acting as coordinators, the plan was tomy | go forward with the festival as it was first announced, - | The articie then sets forth a transcript of Lipton's telephone conversation with Hoffman concerning the schecule of events for the festival, . q advised : $ ? SA n October , 1968, that prior to aa and du @ the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, * Pe he was assigned to the Intelligence Division of the Chicago - \ Police Department. WR 23 he observed Abbott Hoffman f and anotmer In ual make a speech at a Lincoln Park rally approd<imateiy one week prior to the Convention. These speeches j wore directed toward the marshals who were apparently in~ doctrinating and training these marshals to handle themselves curing the Convention. On September 6, 1958, Abbott Hoffman advised SAS AG Ey =: that about five days efore tne ntion, was advised that nis Chicago group nevex received a permit to use Grant Park; that thercafter, the application for a parmit had been withdrawn, Hoffman stated that he then decided to go to Chicago to see wnat he could do to pet a park permit; that he then flew to Chicaso on & student rate fare and met immediately with Deputy Mayor Stahl and others in a last ditch stand to try to get Grant Park for the demonstrations. WOID Radio ‘venue, Chicago, Illinois, advised SA on Soptembor 25, 1968, that .- on August 21, oo, he was in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, where approximately 20 to 30 persons were sitting on the 97 G Station, 002