CARMICHAEL HELD A TARGET OF C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100660003-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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'CARMICHAEL HELD
A TARGET OF C.I.A.
A S.N.C.C. Organizer Says
Johnson is Responsible
8peciel tiThe New York Times
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 21
-An aide to Stokley Carmi-
chael, who is now in North
Vietnam, declared. today that
President Johnson had made
Mr. Carmichael a target of the
Central Intelligence Agency. ,
"It Mr. Carmichael fans
down the stales or chokes on
it chickeh bone,, we will know
it was the C.I.A. that did it,"
said George W. Ware.
Mr. Ware, an organizer for
the Student Nonviolent Coor-
dinating Committee, recently
returned from a trip to Cuba
with Mr. Carmichael, the mili-
tant advocate of black power.
Mr. Ware denied that ttetet
Mr.
Carmichael had ever threat-
ened the life of President John
son, but he went on to say:
"If they kill off our leaders,
we will kill off their leaders
the- Lyndon Johnsons
the and
"General Westmorelands."
Mr. Ware safd "that, if Mr.
Carmichael should be assasi-
nated,-President Johnson "had
better not stick his head out of
doors again ever."
? lYlr. Hart stooks With, news-
men after addressing about 50
children and 25 adults as a
guest of the controversial "lib-
eration school," which has
been meeting in a municipal
park In defiance of a park
board order.
Meanwhile, the Nashville
government's legal department
refused to seek a state court
injunction barring the school
from holding classes In the
park.
Nell Brown, the metropolitan
law director, said the school
was not creating sufficient dis-
turbance to warrant court ac-
tion.
Mr. Brown said the order
issued by the park board to
prohibit the use 'of public parks
by the school Was based on a
board rule and at a criminal
statute.
He said he doubted that the
board's order would stand up
in court and that It was prob-
ably a violation of the free
speech guarantee in the Con-
stitution.
Mr. Ware told newsmen that
the Right Rev. John W. Vander
Horst, Episcopal Bishop ofi
Nashville, yielded to pressure
by segregationists when he or-
drd thece liberation school
ousted from St. Anselm's Chap-1
el where It had operated since
June. .
The .Bishop had said the
black power doctrines taught
in the school by Its director,
Fred W. Brooks, and other In-
structors, violated the concept
of Christianity as taught by
the Episcopal Church.
After the school was ordered
FOIAb3b '
,out of the chapel, the local
antipoverty agency cut off its
financial support. The school
was part of a summer project
financed largely with money
from the Federal Office of Eco-
nomic Opportunity.
Park Board Defied
Mr. Brooks moved the school
Into the park last, week and
held sessions there for three
days, despite the warning from
the park board.
He said the school would
continue one way or another.
The' sessions today. lasted
about 4 hours, Incuding a break
for lunch. One ,group' of chilw
dren and adults gathered under
a tree to listen'to Mr. Ware.
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