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American Friends Service Committee — Part 8
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UNITED STATES DEPshikENT OF JUSTICE
Federai Bureau of Investigation
New Haver, Connecticut
Asgust 25, 1965
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COYNECTICTY CALL TO ACTION
A source who has furnished reliable information in the past,
advised on August 20, 1965, that peace and civil rights groups
in the Hartford, Connecticut, area, bad planned to hold a work-
shop on September 18, 1965, in Hartiad, Connecticut. He said
that the groups would be primarily concerned with Viet Nam and
civil rights problems, The source advised that the affair had
originally been scheduled fer August 28, 1965. .
The "Hartford Courant", a daily and Sunday morning newspaper
published in Hartford, carried an article on August 21, 1965,
which stated that a sessicn called "Connecticut Call to Action"
was to be held on September 18, 1965, in Hartford, Connecticut,
and was to be coordinated by the American Friends Service
Committee and the Greater Hartford Community Peace Center of
West Hartford. The director of both groups was identified as
DAVID TRUSKOFF, who announced that the session would be held
at the State Capitol in Hartford, if approval is obtained from
the State Public Works Commission.
TRUSKOFF advised that groups expected to send representatives
to'the affair included:
New Haven ~ Yale Committee for Peace in Viet Nam;
The West Hartford Citizens Committee for Equal
Opportunity;
North End Community Action Project (NECAP);
Committee for Non-Violent Action (CNVA);
Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy;
Connecticut Council for Human Rights
However, the "Hartford Times", a daily newspaper published
evenings at Hartford, carried an article on August 21, 1965,
“which reflected that Mr. ROBERT F, TUVE, spokesman for the
Connecticut Council for Human Rights, had announced that his
grcup was withdrawing from the session on September 18, 1965,
es the organization strictly limited its concern t the area of
Givil rights,
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