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UNI D STATES DEPARTMENT OF(_ JSLICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Chicago, Illinois, es coe RPRit. uN, 168 DEMONSTRATION PROTESTING UNITED STATES INTERVENTION IN VIET NAK INFORMATION CONCERNING INTERNAL SECURITY A source advised that on April 17, 1965, a Peace Walk calling for an end to United States involvement in Viet Naa coordinated by Women for Peace, Chicago area, and participated in by Voters For Peace, American Friends Service Committee, Womens International League For Peace and Freedom, ¥.E£.B, DuBois Clubs of Chicago and a number of other Peaceand Civil . Rights groups, was held in Chicago, Illinois. Approximately 300 to 350 people participated in this walk of whom about 15 were current Communist Party (CP) members inal 7 carn from the Chicago Branch, Socialist Workers Party was also observed participating in the Peace Walk. : - A counter picket demonstration to the Peace Walk id was held simultaneously by Young Americans for Freedom and armall refugee group of Serbians, both of which claimed to beNanti-communist groups.” Also a few members of the . American Nazi Party counter picketed the Peace Wilk. ‘ , The Peace Walk was led by Shirley Lens of Women Foi Peace, Chicago area, and was peaceful throughout, Those participating in the Peace Walk gathered at the Water Tower, Korth of downtown Chicago at 1:00 PM and walkéd to downtown Chicago, then to the new Federal Building, 219 South Dearborn.,- Street, Chicago, and then to the corner of Wacker Drive and Wabash Avenue, Chicago. During the walk, the participants of a ENCLOSURE