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By Tom Hayden:
My personal involvement in this story begins in the late 1950s, when I
was a student editor at The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s
student paper. In those fallow years, I was a developing idealist who
did not know that the CIA had begun recruiting students for its secret
war against the Soviet Union. In 1960, I hitchhiked to the University of
California, Berkeley, to write about the new student movement there. In
the Bay Area, students protesting the House Un-American Activities
Committee were beaten, hosed and washed down the steps of City Hall.
They were developing the first campus political party at Berkeley, known
as SLATE. They were fighting for the right of student governments to
take stands on “off-campus” issues like racial segregation everywhere
from San Francisco’s downtown hotels to Mississippi. They were in the
process of becoming the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam Day
Committee of 1964 and 1965.
I spent an exhilarating summer staying in an apartment full of Berkeley
radicals. One of the many visitors I met was Donald Hoffman, who
represented the National Student Association, which included members of
student government and Daily editors that met every summer. He was a bit
older than me, a friendly liberal fellow who wanted to make sure that
Berkeley students came to that summer’s national convention. He also was
a CIA agent, and remained so for many decades.
The editor of the Daily before me, Peter Eckstein, was enlisted by the
CIA to direct its recruiting operations, which targeted student
activists in Europe who had been attracted to Soviet-sponsored youth
festivals. Peter was preceded by another Daily editor, Harry Lunn, who
became a lifetime CIA operative in many postings around the world.
full: http://www.thenation.com/article/191569/cias-student-activism-phase#
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