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i : oe ’ Re: Lou Gordon Television Show of July 13, 1969, Detroit, Michigan, Featuring Abbott Howard Hoffman, James Frevcd and Gordon Hall “Gordon: "Hall: "Gordon: "Hall: Mr. Hall, Mr. Hoffman makes a point that I don’t think initially that you responded to. He says the real danger in this country is from the military industrial complex that he talks about and as one who is pretty much concerned about the anti-ballistic missile and the Vietnamese war, and in those categories I agree with Mr. Hoffman, probably the only things I agree with him on. Isn't this the real danger, perhaps a greater danger than the small minority that Mr. Hoffman represents or Mr. Freed represents? Oh surely, there may be many larger dangers and I aid not respond to your first question by siggesting that I believe that left-right extremism in the country is the primary danger. I think for example that organized crime is more dangerous than political extremism. It just so happens that I am a student in one area and I feel that my competence to talk about the Minutemen or the Students for a Democratic | Society, or any of the other groups is where I should remain and I would not, for example, be qualified to discuss the missile crisis, simply because I don't feel that I know that much about it. Although I have feelings that I would share with you on that. Well, I don't think it is the missile crisis we are talking about, we are talking about the fact that thousands of men leave the Pentagon, go into industry which supplies the government through the Pentagon, and, for example, it seems to me that Senator Fulbright referred last week to a group that was running an ad on behalf of the anti-ballistic missile system most of whose members are contractors Working who would be benefiting from the system. Yes, yes, but again it, this is an area that I don't ‘happen to specialize in and I @on't know that much about it, therefore, I dont feel all that qualified to talk about it other than having feelings ac an American about it. ‘= 10 -