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| gt i aa HOFFMAN stated that while in Chicago, he made no plans to cause any disorders, that he gave no orders for anyone to become involved in any disorders,and that he has no knowledge of any such plans or activit on the art of any individual or any group in’ Chicagdé, New York ity, or elsewhere. x - HOFFMAN stated that the YIP issued a calendar of events for the Chicar> Convention period; that he helped to prepare this program, and that it is a public record of all his own and all YIP plans, and that no disorders were scheduled or even suggested. HOFFAAN stated that he urged persons associated with the Convention confrontation to remain non-violent and that his position and policy in this regard has been quoted in the public press several times and was included in an article relating to him which appeared in the "New York Post", a New York City daily newspaper, on September 1 or 2, 1968. HOFFMAN stated that he never advocated any disorder, fights with the police, or the use of weaponry of any sort, in connection with the Chicego disorders, and that he has no knowledge of such plans or activities on the part of anyone else. . HOFFMAN stated that he heard general gossip of absurd statements made by persons unknown to him, about nuttinge TSS te tha Chi pans Arinvine ata nA that cirra pur eo ase ie id Vile wt hicags QringArit otk, Wa ver 4 ana Wiad & pin es ee such things were so foolish and impractical he never tsox then seriously, but took them to be just talk and “Letting off steam", c HOFFMAN stated that he could only speak for hinm- self concerning motivation to visit Chicago during the period the Democratic Convention vas being held. HOFFAaN stated that he believes in a free, unregimeritated life: that he would hope to influence everysne to join hin: shat the philosophy of the Democratic Party advocates the con tinuance of the present system which is a monitary tras which causes people to work unnecessarily for an entire . lifetime and only to perpetuate the system. HOPFFHAN stated .- that in his opinion current technical advancements and scientific achievements, all of a revolutionary natures, can feed and cloth the entire world; that such technical and scientific achievements and their future refinements could, if allowed by the establishment to do SO, release everyone from an organized life of work and entrapment, and that he wanted to utilize the Democratic Convention in Chicago to do his "thing", which was to confront the Democrats and to publicize his own philosophy of life. by