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Anti-Vietnam ‘Spy’
Informer Planted
Among War Critics
By ROBERT GORDON
FT. JACKSON, S.C. (UPI)—
The young private from Illinois
was one of the most articulate
and outspoken critics of U.S.
policy in Vietnam.
When the “Gls Against the
War in Vietnam” held one of its
meetings, Pvt. Jonn Huffman
generally was in the forefront of
the discussions.
Thus it was not surprising
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that when nine members of the
group were arrested in nearby
Columbia last month the soldier
with the most charges against
him was Huffman, 19, of Oak
Park, 111.
What was surprising was that
the Army revealed Thursday
Huffman was an informer
against the “Cis.” It said the
charges against Huffman had
been dismissed and he had been
transferred to another unit (it
refused to say which).
Attorneys for the other "Gls”
promptly cried foul. Attorney
Thomas D. Broadwater said the
Army had compromised its case
by planting an “agent” among
the defendants in violation of
the client-attorney relationship.
Melvin Wulf, legal director of
the American Civil Liberties
Union, strongly protested Huff
man’s activity.
“We condemn the use of
political spies and provocateurs
—if the reports are correct—
and think the government has
no right to introduce spies and
provocateurs into groups engag
ing in acts protected by the
First Amendment,” he said.
The Army’s spokesman, act
ing Public Information Officer
Robert Ingram, was cryptic and
evasive about just when and
how Huffman came to be on the
Army’s side.
He answered with a flat “no”
when asked if the Army had
planted Huffman in the group,
and seemed to leave open only
a possibility that Huffman had
turned on his companions after
the arrest.
However, a prepared state
ment said defense lawyers had
been told officially that Huff
man was “acting on behalf of
the command,” which in one
interpretation would Indicate
that Huffman was a “plant” or
an agent for the Army’s
Criminal Investigation Division,
Huffman was arrested March
23 while talking to other
members of the anti-war group
at the “UFO,” a Columbia
coffeehouse which serves as
headquarters for “Gls Against
the War.”
Friday, April 11, 1969 Griffin Daily News
MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME 1967
BY OCCUPATION OF HEAD
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WHO'S GETTING AHEAD is illustrated by these charts from
the National Industrial Conference Board, New York, using
U.S. Commerce Department data. As you might suppose,
the best educated are the best-placed and percentage of
working wives Is climbing.
5
’Shine Operations
Greatly Reduced
In Vidalia
55 Released
From Jail
VIDALIA, Ga (UPD— Three
days of racial tension eased off
here Thursday when 55 young
Negro demonstrators were re
leased from jail on six months’
probation.
The youths, most of them un
der 17, were arrested Tuesday
on charges of parading without
permits. They had returned
home from demonstration in
Atlanta and Montgomery, Ala.
in honor of the late Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Vidalia Police Chief T. R.
Vaughan said the youths were
released after their parents met
with the City Council and
Mayor Hugh Dixon.
The parents protested the S2OO
cash bond necessary for each
of the youths to obtain his free
dom.
The releases apparently fore
stalled a rally and march which
Negro leader Reuben Gamble of
Dublin, Ga., had said would
come sometime Thursday night.
Earlier, Bobby Hill, a state
legislator and Savannah attor
ney hired by the NAACP legal
defense fund, said he would file
a writ of habeas corpus to ob
tain the releases.
Vaughan also denied charges
by Gamble that Toombs County
Sheriff Delmer Burke and his
deputies had made lewd threats
to 21 Negro girls lodged in the
Vidalia city jail and Tombs
County jail at Lyons.
Burke also denied the charg
es and said he had not tried to
run down some of the demon
strators with cars Tuesday
night as Gamble also charged.
ATLANTA (UPI) — A study
shows that moonshine produc
tion in Georgia has been sharp
ly reduced since “Operation
Dry Up” began, but a state
revenue official says the crack
down has also made the agents’
work harder.
The state reduced its moon
shine production by half in
1967, a report by the Licensed
Beverages Industries, Inc., said,
to lead in cutting down the na
tion’s illegal liquor production.
The national average declined
was 22.8 per cent.
During the same year, how
ever, about 1,500 less stills were
LADY GODIVA
BOSTON (UPD—Bill Veeck,
who once had a midget pinch
hit in the big leagues and who
set off live fireworks when
members of his Cleveland team
hit home runs, has a new
promotion going.
Veeck, president of Suffolk
Downs, has corralled eight lady
jockeys to compete in a SIO,OOO
6-furlong stake race April 19.
Veeck has dubbed the race
the Lady Godiva Stakes—what
else?
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raided compared to • the year
before. While the federally-sup
ported dry-up campaign has
had tremendouseffects on
moonshine production, H. Fred
Culberson, head of the State
Alcohol Tax and Control di
vision, said it has also made
their work harder.
“Before the ’Operation Dry-
Up’ effort began in Georgia,
our revenue agents found stills
easily because they were right
out in the open and very nu
merous,” said Culberson.
“Now that the stills are few
er and more carefully hidden,
our agents usually require
months of undercover work to
arrest one moonshine opera
tion.”
The Revenue Department is
concentrating more on bootleg
ging and legal liquor problems
in the state, due to a decline
in: the moonshine production,
Culberson said.
“We stay mostly on the look
out for transportation of tax
paid liquor to dry counties, non
licensed sales of tax-paid liquor,
Sunday sales and sales to
minors,” he said.