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Re: Lou Gordon Television Show Of July 13 , 1969, Detroit, Michigan, Featuring Abbott Howard Hoffman, James Freed and Gordon Hall “in hovels and they eat when they can and sleep where they can so I think it is a myth that this is a heavily financed kind of operation. "Gordon: How should we deal with the party sentiment, how oy should we deal, we in the middle, who want to try 5 and save this system and make it work. How should a we deal with people like Mr. Hoffman, the extreme left? “Hall: Compassionately I think, above everything else, it serves little purpose to suggest that Mr. Freed reallydesn't believe that Walter Reuther is a red and that he really does call the shots for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This kind of paranoia apparently is rampant in the Minutemen. I think you have to deal with them compassionately and try to understand them, but at the same time, while you are trying to understand them, keep an eye on them because these people mean business and despite all the tomfoolery today, I think that obviously both of these kooks would, if they could, come to power and and by any means necessary. “Gordon: Were frequently criticized, we, the staff and myself, for giving these people exposure. Do you think that's a mistake? - . "Hall: No, not really. I think that you can overexpose them and I think to,give them too much free time may be overdoing it, but I think there is an educational value in letting them come on like this and I just would appreciate it if next time you would omit me, but I think that there is real value in having them sit before the cameras and say these things because most people really wouldn't believe that a man like Mr. Freed harbors the notions that he is endlessly being persecuted by the FBI and Mr. Hoffman, on the other hand, believes that he is a total innocent, more or less, and that the police and everybody else are constantly on his back. . By the way, I simply dont believe that story about being endlessly followed. The FBI has more important things to do than to follow Mr. Hoffman. - 30-.