CIA MONITORED SOCIALISTS 23 YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400450034-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: July 17, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2005/01/13: CIA-RDP88-01315R000400450034-5 17 JUL.1V5-
WASHINGTON POST
11 By Stephen Green and Lawrence Beyer . The new revelation about "Socialist Educational Cfinfer~-,
The Central naton Post Staff Wrt t CIA domestic surveillance is ence sponsored by the Young.
Intelligence Agency the second time in recent days Socialist Alliance here.:
monitored the domestic activities of in which information about Washington." ' .!
the Socialist Workers Party for 23 CIA. activities not contained The memo stated: The'
years in apparent violation of the CIA in the Rockefeller Commis-1IYSA as you know, is the
? sion report was made public.iyouth vannuacd of the Trotsk-
,charter, accoidirtg to documents re- i1
leased b the it was. revealed last weeki.'yite Socialist Workers Party
by party yesterday. :that the agency in 1953 gave as well as?..the controlling
g The documents indicate the Intel- doses of LSD to a small f'Drce behind the "mass move
ligence agency .. continued domestic group of scientists without merit" amalgam known as th$
'surveillance in Washington for nearly their knowledge. The commis Student Mobe (Student llobi
Ision had reported that only hzation Committee), Target;
,two years after the Rockefeller Com- Torte scientist was given the Analysis Branch will be treat:
,nAssion said such activities were sup- !drug. He since has been iclen? ing this topic in some depth
this week's Situation Inforrria
:posed to have. been stopped-by the 'tified' as biochemist -Frank-.
agency' `Olson, who two weeks after tion Report."
The documents show the CIA re= taking the drug in 1953 -., The memo said that since
'eeived reports in 1969 and 1970 on (plunged to his-death from the the splintering of . SDS last'
what four agents learned here about 10th floor of a New York City summer at : Chicago"" where
,the Young Socialists Alliance, the hotel room: ithe 196f1 Democratic
conven-
youth organization. of the Socialist .Ition was held, ' "the YSA
A CIA spokesman yesterday (mostly via Student Mobe) is'
Workers Party. said he was not familiar with
jcamiug on strong and pies'
Tderitifled only as R-4, R-5, R-6 and :anybody working for the CIA
ently represents the best
R-7, the agents conducted surveillance given a code designation ofauess for leadership in the
He
d
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a
ded that
I cannot radical. youth movement for
ay one w
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ay or another
on D.C. college campuses, according e early 1970s."
a whether R - 4 , arzcl It 7 I1 thThe memo adds that "roe
to the documents. were working for the CIA. 1
David Bolen, who served as 1; will most definitely, keep
The Socialist Workers Party obtained abreast of evolvini " develop-
the documents from the CIA as the executive director of the Flock- y Y eit _ in *r ;~ v etrr .,.F? -,,,
.Information Act. for the CIA's OperatioAccording to the documents,
According to the 'Rockefeller Com- CHAOS. which trrorritorecl dis- on Aug.. 10, 1969, agent "Ft-7
Office of Security_ infiltrated - and country from 1967 to 197. The:"Student Mobilization Commit-
monitored at least 17 Washington agent assigned to infiltrate; tee at 2030 hours at the Reiss
area antiwar and black activist groups the May Day organization re-!Science Building at George
in 1967 and 1968. These activities by ported to CHAOS, according town University." In his re-
the CIA, the commission concluded, to the commission report. port, R-7 stated that "about 50-
were illegal because they-did not come According to the doc'urients, 60 people were present. 95 per
conduct intelligence activities outside received reports on the obser- The main speaker was ` Dan `
the United States and to protect itself, vations of agents R 4:, R-5, Ft 6 ll;oenshine, national commit-
. __ .and R-7 concerning four ,>e~r_ ; tee member of the Young So.
.
Tn Tea camber 1968 th
omrn
e
report said, the CIA relinquished its Zings nerd in D.C. between.luautsr, Alliance and guest of
Aug. 10, 1969, and Dec. 6, 1969. the Cuban government at the
surveillance of Washington groups to II t'hree of these sessions were !celebration of the 10th anni-
the D.C. police department, which sponsored hersary of the Cuban rerolu?
until 1972 relayed its findings to the ctalists by the Young So-' -
~ltien."
intelligence agency. Alliance. The other
Assistant D.C. Police Chief Theo- ~~as sponsored by- the antiwarf Agent 11-7 reported that Ro-
dore R. Zanders said +Student Mobilization Commit-i'senshine's speech "'was very
"can't . yesterday that ,tee' and -featured a speaker-!short but he showed film
he come up with anything" to Ifrom the Young Socialists AI-;'slides on Cuba." R-7 added
show that agents R-4, R-5, R-6 and R-7 liance.
worked for the D.C. ,that "no new, literature was
police. In-addition, the CJA Office !available at this meeting."
The only CIA domestic surveillance Iof .. Security received Pam- On Dec. 6. 1969, accorclin3 to.
in 'ashington_ after 1968 that was ,phlets and other literature the docri:nents, agents R-F, R-6
mentioned by the Rockefeller Com- [gathered by the agents at the and id-7 attended 1"SA meet-1
"mission report was the i971 assi n- uneetin iris at Genie iV rsitington
meat of an ?agent to infiltrate the
Acc
i1-l ording to the documents,: Lrd sit'.
ay Day antiwar protest organization Ian- tulidentified "C1A ern- it t
the documents state,!
President Ford createe? the ploy'ce" from an uniclertMod "made a cursory check", and
Ilockcfeller. Commission to in- "CIA unit" sent a memo on . reported that a "meeting head-
vestigate the functioning of the Dee. 1 1 , 1939, to the a; cr.cy's lined as the Socialist Educa 1
CIA after press disclosures that "'Deputy Director of Security" tional? Co life renlCc? i "+as
the agency had engaged in inns- discussing surveillance of the "attended by approsirnately j i
%iae,?-illegal domestic spying, Young Socialists -11 i, n
;A Seenate committee iApprG .d "oittReleasf ~IQ r lc ~ le c~?PIAQ' ~#3r1 ~40~9~k50034-5
ducting its y orer arc tie remarnc er cola
own investi` ation pamphlets and..flycrs" ,'5th- ilege ippy type." 1
of these allegations.. ' , Bred a week earlier, from ._u,. I