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Re: Lou Gordon Television Show of July 13, 1969, Detroit, Michigan, Featuring Abbott Howard HOffman, James Freed and Gordon Hall “badly they fare in these areas, I think will ultimately spell, the, either the demise of these groups or further acceleration, I think that it,’ it -always depends on what those of us in the middle, and I regard myself certainly as a political moderate, mr: how well we handle these things depends on how well the extreme left right now in particular will do. A : bi ae Ic a “Gordon: I think J. Edgar Hoover was reported as having said “A this week that these people were being financed, the a Abby Hoffman type and the SDS type were being financed by liberals in our society. Some people think they are being financed by international Communism, or by Cuba or China. How do you fell about that? Teen “Hall: I don't believe it is true, I, I've studied this as . I say fairly closely for a long time and I see no evidence whatever that money is coming either from Red China or from Castro's Cuba. Now, it may be, but I have never seen any evidence. And not only that, I've never seen a Federal gency able to document this kind of charge. But it sounds great you know to say that they | are on the payroll of Mao Tse-tung, or something like that. And I think it is also a mistake to suggest that liberals are financing the far left. Liberals tend to be financing the Kennedys in their campaign, so, of course, the Kennedys have hardly needed money, but I mean the overall campaign Of people representing the views of say Senator Edward Kennedy of my State of Massachusetts. Liberals are reformists, people who want to maintain this system, but they want to improve it and get on with the serious nfinished business of our democ cracy. So I think . Le unfinished busi “Gordon: Where do they get their money? Where do , they get ; their money? “Hall: Well, I don't think that they have very much money, certainly I imagine that wherever Mr. Hoffman‘is ‘going after he leaves tis show he will be flying but z don‘t think it will be on an airplane. I don't . think they have very much money to work with. I think its a myth to think that underground newspapers and the rest have a lot of money, they are poorly printed, they are sold on street corners and. they live