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iD “a , s) fe) o SOUTHERN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ¢ i$SOC} f= $ H f ¢ uree idvised that the Southern 1 ‘ On November 1, 2966. a farst Student Orginizing Ceamittee (SSOC} was formed on the weekend cr Arras 3-5, 1964, to stimulate 2ctivaty ef Southern Student groups in sre of civil rights, feace, acudemic freedom. civait iakerties, ctrst2l punishment, and unemployment Originally, it eis co be a white = Gunter part of the Student Neayioient Coordin2zting Conamittee (SNCC}. t has. agreed to work with simil=r interested groups sunh as SNCC and gtudeats for a Democratic Society (30S) snd Southern Conference Fducaticns Fund, Inc. (SCEF)., SSOC is & fravercal affiliate of the SDS. uw Beginning in the Talk of 3966 SSO00 became 4 membership organization and emb2:ked on * ¢2m gn to form aWarious college campuses throughout the South, SSOC fublsshes, October through May cach year. 7 Zublreatsan, “New South Studes which according te the xbove source k2s anc fly fused aad defended the pro-Communist ta¢ anra-Usitcd 512 PRrition an gemestcs and foreign policy: - On July 2, 1968, 2» second securce advised that SSOC cortianes to be headquartered 2t 1703 Portiond Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee, and continues to deferd and es pyuse the pro-Communist and anti-Urited States position with Particular € ASIis on atticking United States policy in Vietnam and emphosas cn attacking the “‘tiective Service System. Source two nored th:t SSOC Chairman Thomis N. Gardner in Une Summer of 1967 traveled to Prague. Czechoslovakaa; waere he met ith representatives of the Natignx} Liberstion Froat (NLF} and the Denc- cratic Republic of Vietnim (DRV}. and thet Ssoc staff members Bruce Smith and Alan Levin traveled te Cuba in the Sumner of 1967 and February, 1968, respectively. By letter atted Aprzi 26, 33968, on SSOC letterhead miticd ts the general SSOC membership aver the signature of Mike Welch, CUTIVE Secretary of SSOC, it w2s sanounced that as 2 step tceaird close relations with the Students for a Democritic Society (SDSi end betrer ccomurscitions with the movement nétioniady, S300 and SBS pave ecrked cut an of the “New South Student" ind the "New Left Notes," and that SSOC were exchanging contct lists of their respective memberships for this exchange. . The May, 1958. seue of "New South Student" indicates that the SSOC mailing address is P Box 6403, Nathvilie, Teanessee, 37212, Telephone Number 6)5~- 291-3537, and the mast-heid described the organization as "An asscci ati of young cencernead Scutherner: ded.c.rad to social change," as taken from the preamble of the SSOC consitrtution.