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uni rares DEPARTMENT OF nck ‘ PEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Atlanta, Georgia November 5, 1969 DEMONSTRATION AT FORT MC PHERSON, ATIANTA, GEORGIA, OCTOEER 25, 1969, AT 11:30 A.M., SPONSORED BY THE UNITED FARK WORKERS ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, PROTESTING INCREASED PURCHASE OF GRAPES BY DEFENSE DEPARTMENT An articie appearing in the October 27, 1989, issue of "The Great Syeckled Bird", an Atlanta weekly “New Left newspaper, distributed October 24, 1969, indicated that the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee planned to eet up a picket lire outside the Lee Street entrance of Fert McPnersc2, Atlanta, Georgia, at 11:30 a.m. on Octcter 25, 1969, te protest the “stepped-up government buying cf seab grapes.* : . . Tne article further stated that, as the grape vt boycett spread, grape growers lost markets and the grapes piled up until the Pentagon came to the aid of "agribusiness" with a 3590 per cent increase of grape shipments to American scidiers in Vietnam. The article also stated that DARY OLSON, United Farm Workers (UFW) representative in Atlanta, had . called for a massive turnout at the October 25, 1969, . ~ dencustration from sympathetic groups and individuals, - ‘ | At approximately 11:45 a.m. on October 25, 1969, Special Agents of the Pederel Bureau of Investigation officers of the Atlanta Police Department, and Special : Agents of the lllth Military Intelligence Group, Fort McPherson, Gecrgia, observed approximately nine demonstrators gather in front of the main gate at the Lee Street entrance to Fort McPherscn. The demonstrators proceeded to march back and forth in front of the gate passing out leaflets to- motcrists entering the leaving the Fort. 14D - vod 74 Le i ‘ i 1 Tis document contains neither recommer! or con= . aa 4 | clusicns of the FBI. It 1s the property of the FBI and aid os is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distrituted cutside your agency. ENCLOSURE