SKOLNICK LINKS CONSPIRACY, CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100220014-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 17, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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By MARY LUFTL'
Sherman Skolnick, sponsored by,
the freshman law Students, spoke
to an audience .that overflowed 1.41
Commerce Welt on Tuesday night.
The speech centered on the third
point of. the Citizen's Con]nuttee to
Clean up the Courts.
Collusion, according to Slolnick,
J
was exemplified in the Chicago 7
Col]spirorcy Trial--collusion of the
Chicago ? and the CIA " When the
rhetoric and the philosophy are
dispensed with," he said. the facts
emerge.
'Incredible' facts
Yet, the rhetoric and the
seeming philosophy were utilized
by Skolnick to reach the audience.
Consequently, the emerging Not
tended to 1)0 less credible, since he
scented to lack his own advice.
The facts bocame vague, a hint,
: irnplied.''J'he correlational quality
of S';:olnick's. material did not
necessarily mean causation.
Discreditation of the peace
movement v; rs not the case in fact,
but the case in hint.
Skolnick's implications tried to
link the Chicago Conspiracy with
the CIA through funding, throu;h
."front conduits," and through
Chicago: newspapers.
I' ederal fwid11lg?
The funding was due to the
l ittle credibility
financing of ItenaieDavis and Toni evolve when Skolnick was
Hayden, according to Skolnick, queotio]tedconcelling, the validity,
and persons connected with them of his sources, the sketchiness of
in the National Mobilization to End the speech, and the facts for fur-
the War in Vietnam were funded by ther re ererice. 'T'his is not to say
federal money channeled to them that S?;~ I"trick did not have some
through government-front fads worthy of note. The
organizations.
"$19'1,,000 in federal money and
$E5,000 from the Carnegie h'oun-,
dation (a suspected C.I.A. conduit)
were funneled to Tom IIavden,
Rennie Davis, at aI., and others'
through a front calling ilscif the
Chicago Student Health
O1'galuzution,'' he said.
Terms such as Rennie Davis'
"nefarious interests" 'J'oin
Hayden's ''nurmerous benefits,"
and Abbic Hoffman "staying at the
SU (d(C5i5on scented, to he to "do
o;]le thinkiing,,there is always a
mop. ]; at % vas the implication,
and theposslbility.of the C.T.A. as a
actor influencing the Conspiracy
't'rial was the overt cause.
Somehow ttie tie between the two,
althaa Tr a possibility, seemed to
be'some what of a dirt-slinging
agaiir