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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64) _— ev ( } ~ 1. 4 if FBI Date: 12/18/68 Transmit the following in ; . (Type in plaintext or code} ‘ AIRTEL \ S N . ‘s (Priority) 1 RY pe Le L__~3_-- : TO > DIRECT Far (176-24) ad yl c ; AY a‘ * wesiarw hwy SES LSE l we A ye Cc oN r . me Be" cnt oe " FROM : sac, caress (176-28) Vo cum © vv Oe : = ~~ 28 SUBJECT: ABBOTT H, HOFFMAN, aka; of SS ~ 3 (PRINCIPAL SUBJECT) 4g & .> ; Bos 00: CHICAGO VS, Vv =" Re Bureau airtel to Chicago dated 12/10/68. ; ° Enclosed for the Bureau are five copies of an LHM “= regarding the subject. For the information of WFO, the department has requested that a witness be located who can testify that he hear a HOFFMAN make several statements which were set forth in the Walker Study Team Report released on 12/1/68 by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. One statement attributed to HOFFMAN which appears in the request by the department, is on page 50 of the above repor and is as follows: "We wanted to (obscene) up their image on TV, I fight through the jungle of TV, you see, . .it's all in terms of disrupting the image, the image of a democratic society being run very peacefully and orderly and everything is according to business." Team, adv no nterview HOFFMAN and that a11 records have been gent to Washington, D.C, and are under the contro] of National Commenoro2? th the Causes and Prevention of Violence. IFt 2 ~i{4 — WFO is requested to obtain identity of individual ho interviewed HOFFMAN and obtained above quote. - Bureeu (Bac. 5) (RM)