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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE Be ‘NEWS RELEASE. _ oF . whens, PAADELAUA PA TR MARGARET Ht 3AZON 10) HHI 4 Anerican Friends Service Committee a ' American Civil latertios $aton 160 North Fifteenth Street : _ 1424 Sixteenth Street Philadelphia, Pa, 19102 an ~ Washington, D.C, T0038 - _ John Pancake 215-LO 3-9372 Tel: 202-483-3830 . In Washington: — 202-HU 3-3341 FOR RELEASE 11:30 A.M. TUESDAY : . APRIL 7, 1970 a ‘the ‘American Friends Service Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union are. compelled to raise questions about such an abridgement of the right - According to the Los Angeles Times, "The FBI and the Meridian, Missis- sippi police paid $36,500 to two Ku Klux Klan informants to arrange a trap to catch two young, Klan terrorists in a bombing attempt...Pélice who sprang the - : trap-o on June “30 1968 say “they expected a gun battle and never thought either _ Klan member would be taken alive.” Zeophasis ours7 3 le “believe uch action. to bea clear misuse of police power in the State ar _ the Constitution. It represents the gravest of threats ‘not just to the - . . ° . : : | = . ruores ke UPA 87 ;