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Abbie Hoffman — Part 38

123 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 14, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 122 pages OCR'd
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Abbott Howard Hoffman gack Anderson: It's a very rare privilege. Abbie Hoffman; I'm declared a national security hazard which is kind of a faulty electrical connection.... Jack Andergon: It's 4 very rare privilege but not as rare as the FBI would like you to believe. The way it works...they get court orders ch less than a hundred themselves, probably 1ess than 50 if I remember my figures correctly and when J. Edgar Hoover appears before Congress and says that he's got taps only on less than 50 phones....bugs in less than a hundred places, he's telling the truth, But the way they work it, they get local law enforcement agencies to do the bugging for them. So, if they want...uh...if they want a room bugged or a telephone tapped so thet it won't be counted against them and have as a black on them, they'il get the local FBI supervisors usually on good terms with some local law enforcement agency, and they'll get them to do the bugging or the tapping and turn the information over to the FBI, So Hoover can really honestly boast that there are rdatively few taps by the FBI. ; Abbie Hoffman: It's sort of farmed out to local agencies. I've a letter just this week from a kid in Dallas who found the Army Intelligence Division with an office in Dallas and a phone listing and went to the public library and did a little Anderson snooping and found that in 214 cities in this country the Army Intelligence Division also has an outpost, it's kind of wierd to.....0f what the Army is interested in,..... Jack Anderson: We got a copy of their list. They have files as I recalj,on about 30 million Americans. Abbie Hoffman: That's the Army? Jgack Anderson: That's the Army. And we got a list of their -T-..
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