PACIFIST WITNESS GIVES VIEW CIA IN ON ASSASSINATIONS

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In on Assassinations
By SANT KINCH JR. without sooner or later doing it meat in the bloody demonstra
Washington Bureau of The iNews in this country. tions in Chicago at the time of
WASHINGTON-Veteran pact- o the Democratic National Con-
ASKED IF he were accusing vention.
fist and antiwar leader David
Dellinger said Wednesday that the CIA of involvement in the During 3%z hours, Dellinger, 53
the Central Intelligence Agency two murders, Dellinger said, and balding, talked less about
may have been involved in the we don't know,' then added the Chicago demonstrations"
that there' are "same. very dis-
which he was the national chair-1 STAT
assassinations of President John
Kennedy and black militant Curbing aspects" about the man-than about World War 11,
Malcolm X. deaths of Kennedy and Malcolm Korea, Hungary, Czechoslova$ia
Dellinger made the statement X. Based on his own studies, he ~. said, "some governmental or and, most of all, Vietnam.
Dellinger, who served three
American Activities Committee. quasigovernm yat a House un- entalergency" was years in for refwing to re-
involved, at least in Malcolm . jail
hearing as he also asserted that gtster for the draft just before'}
X's murder.
there is a plot to "eliminate' - World War I. described himself ,
young black leaders. The disgression about the CIA as "a pacifist by politics and re-
"The CIA has been assassinat- . and the assassinations came ligion" and as "a nonviolent re-
ling people throughout the world 'during a hearing' that was sup-' volutionist."
for. too many years," Dellinger posed to deal with Communist AS AN 01+1}E11 generation
tieaid. "Wei ;tart'E, do thatabroad and-other: subyorsive. rtvolve-,.
: member of the new left, he de-
{attempt to "introduce economic
democracy and extend political
.democracy," not to seize but to
"decentralize and democratize
power."
Rarely raising his voice, he called HUAC "illegal, immoral
and.largely ineffective" and
said he therefore did not hesi-
Dellinger, who is editor of Lib-
eration, a leftist magazine, also
is chairman of the National Mo-
bilization Committee to End the
sored and organized the Chicago
antiwar demonstrations,
He desc; ibad the National
,i'Mobiiization as an "organic but
lion that "differs somewhat in
tabltshrnent or other forms of
conventional politics." He said
the group raises money, as it is
needed, from more than 100 con-
+%stituent organizations and from
als
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1 sympathetic
' Dellinger- said he is not a
!'.bookkeeper and does not know
onstrations
d
h
em
e
how much t
cost, but he said a "considerable
deficit',., 'Of "at least several-
1 thousand dollars" was incurred.
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