CIA backed Eugene McCarthy in '68 v. RFK

[Paul Rigby]

Joan Mellen, in the thread David Talbot : Walter Sheridan and Jim Garrison Yesterday, 06:26 AM Post #15

A very close friend of mine was a friend of John F. Kennedy's, and a Harvard classmate. (He is interviewed in many of the biographies of President Kennedy). He liked "Jack" and Kennedy appointed him to be Ambassador to Morocco, a position he ultimately rejected, on the (bad) advice of David K. E. Bruce. My friend, along with his friends, thought Bobby was ruthless (the cliche that was true) and untrustworthy, and this was before my friend became campaign manager for Eugene McCarthy. The year, yes, was 1968.

Ah, yes, good old Gene McCarthy and his children’s crusade. So pure it hurts:

“A Tale of Two Doves,” JFK Assassination Forum, No.7, (April 1975), p.2:

“…when a dove of more conservative cast, Gene McCarthy, decided to oppose Johnson for the nomination, the CIA promptly infiltrated his campaign.

Names to conjure with: Allard Lowenstein, Curtis Gans and Sam Brown. Ostensibly these men were concerned with ‘containing’ the student anti-war movement. The motto of McCarthy’s student supporters was ‘Keep clean for Gene’ – none of your Hoffmans or Rubins, please.

In early 1968, when McCarthy’s campaign seemed dangerously short of funds, help was forthcoming from West Coast industrialist Sam Kimball, chairman of Aerojet-General Corp. whose representative in Washington was Admiral Raborn, a former CIA chief.

When Robert Kennedy…entered the nomination stakes, two more ‘former’ CIA men, Thomas Finney and Thomas McCoy joined McCarthy’s campaign. (For fuller information, see Private Eye 169.)”

The full piece from Private Eye:

Footnotes (Paul Foot), “Blue Gene,” Private Eye, No. 169 (7 June 1968), p.15:

In the Democratic primary in Oregon it was being put about that Senator McCarthy’s campaign was being organised by the CIA. The facts behind these allegations are as follows:

The CIA has realised since 1966 that the politics of confrontation in S.E. Asia was potentially disastrous to its operations in the rest of the Free World. Bombing North Vietnam was a failure even then. Together with political instability in Saigon, the mixture was an explosive one for the CIA politics of cooptation. During the last 2 years CIA station chiefs throughout the Third World, and more recently in Western Europe, have reported that the political dynamics within their own countries were becoming increasingly polarised. The left, both old and new, formal and informal, could unite on the issue of Vietnam. Moreover, this left, through Vietnam and its demonstration of American control, has been able to win educated support from the amorphous and apolitical ‘liberals’. By last summer, the established governments of a dozen countries, Japan, West German, Italy, Holland, and the Philippines among them, were being prodded by young dissenters, using Vietnam as their main weapon.

On August 30, 1967, Allard Lowenstein and Curtis Gans set up the National Conference of Concerned Democrats in Washington. Their aim: to run, from within the Democratic party, a Peace candidate for the 1968 Presidential Election. During September they approached Senator Eugene McCarthy and by Dec. 1st had raised sufficient money for McCarthy to be endorsed as their candidate.

Allard Lowenstein was president of the National Students Association in 1952, one year before the CIA began funding the overseas operations of the NSA. Lowenstein was a key figure in these early negotiations with the agency. Since then he has become a lawyer in Manhattan, taught politics for a while at a University and twice run successfully for Congress. At the same time he has somehow managed to travel all over the world on ‘private business’. A ‘regular’ in S.E. Asia, he also visits Dar Es Salam and Lusaka frequently. Curtis Gans, 32, was a vice president of the NSA, and later became Director of Information for Americans for Democratic Action.

In the early stages of campaign planning, Gans and Lowenstein took on Sam Brown, who gladly dropped his theology studies at Harvard to join his NSA colleagues. In 1966, Sam Brown had been one of the NSA directors who was privy to CIA operations. These three CIA contacts began the student (‘National Student’) operation which was to roll forward the peace wagon through New Hampshire to the resignation of President Johnson. (And at the same time provide an outlet for ‘responsible’ student dissent: in the previous year, SDS, on the far and new left in the US, had alarmed both FBI and CIA by more than doubling its membership.)

In early April, when McCarthy’s campaign seemed to falter for lack of funds, the first West Coast industrialist to come forward was Dan Kimball. Kimball is chairman of Aerojet – General Corp. whose representative in Washington is Admiral Rayburn, ex-CIA Chief. The problem recently for the McCarthy cooperatives has been Kennedy’s entrance into the race, also, apparently, as a peace candidate. Lowenstein has left the McCarthy camp and is now floating. But, in the past two weeks, two former officials of the CIA have joined the McCarthy campaign to help Gans and Brown.

They are Thomas D. Finney, 43, and Thomas McCoy, 50. (It is obvious that no-one trusts Robert Kennedy, whereas from the CIA point of view, McCarthy has at least called for the resignation of J. Edgar Hoover.)

The CIA is naturally backing both sides, as they always do, and it may be that the early efforts with McCarthy have drawn Humphrey into becoming the ‘safest’ peace candidate of them all. In any case, Gans and Lowenstein have in 9 months successfully gestated a peace child to win them both medals in Langley, Virginia.

[Nathaniel Heidenheimer]

Paul--

Later Lowenstein became a leader in the campaign to reopen the RFK assassination files held by the LAPD. Melanson seems to take these efforts as sincere. Do you?

Later in the Spring of 1980 he was murdered by an old colleague from the anti-war movment who had become irrational. Melanson quotes fellow RFK assassination Greg Sone to the effect that Lewenstein's killer was " a nut but was he a handled nut?" Any take on his death, if, as you suggest, he was working with the CIA?

Edited November 14, 2007 by Nathaniel Heidenheimer

[Paul Rigby]

Paul--

Later Lowenstein became a leader in the campaign to reopen the RFK assassination files held by the LAPD. Melanson seems to take these efforts as sincere. Do you?

Nat, no, absolutely not. As Richard Cummings’ aforementioned estimable biog, The Pied Piper: Allard Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream (NY: Grove Press Inc., 1985) - in particular, the opening chapter of the work’s final section, VII, “On His Own,” pages 454-469 - leaves no doubt. Lowenstein was a dutiful CIA footsoldier throughout the period in question. The Agency had other purposes in mind, none of them remotely edifying, when it had Lowenstein go public about his "doubts."

Later in the Spring of 1980 he was murdered by an old colleague from the anti-war movment who had become irrational. Melanson quotes fellow RFK assassination Greg Sone to the effect that Lewenstein's killer was " a nut but was he a handled nut?" Any take on his death, if, as you suggest, he was working with the CIA?

I agree that Sweeney gives every indication of being a "handled nut." The purpose of his assassination? Like John Lennon's, essentially symbolic, as Lowenstein was now considered expendable. The 60s terminated in hail of bullets. Here comes Ronnie!

Paul

[William Kelly]

McCarthy Flashback

Eugene McCarthy comes to Atlantic City – Summer 1968

I don't remember how I got the message, but Gene McCarthy was coming to Atlantic City and they needed some volunteers.

That was my job, even though I was only 17, I was coordinator of volunteers for the McCarthy for President campaign in Camden County, New Jersey. The election was already over, in early June, right around the same time, maybe it was the same day as the California, New York and Oregon primaries, when the morning headlines all read: RFK Assassinated.

Who won became moot, and I just couldn't understand it when the RFK crowd didn't just come over to McCarthy, as he was Irish too.

But it was apparently a lot more complicated than that. So when I got the message that McCarthy was coming to Atlantic City, I called all the names on the volunteers in the file cards and then went over there to see how I could help. Now I've been to Atlantic City, eight to ten miles from home, a hundreds of times, but I can't remember how I got there this time. If I drove it was in a CJ-5 jeep to the Howard Johnson's Hotel on Pacific Avenue, where I checked in with the desk and went to a room reserved for McCarthy where I met the Advance Man.

While I can't remember his name, the Advance Man was a lot more polished and smooth operating than the volunteer school teachers, professors and housewives I had been working with during the local campaign.

He didn't need any volunteers at the moment, but I was ordered to stick around in case anything came up, so I became somewhat of a fly on the wall.

From what I remember, McCarthy was coming to Atlantic City to address the national NAACP convention, and there was a lot of telephoning going on. Finally McCarthy himself arrives, with much commotion, complete with Secret Service escort. I was given an American flag for my sports coat lapel, so the SS guys would know I was with the campaign.

Then after a few hours of people coming and going, arguments and heated exchanges, McCarthy, the candidate was gone, back to the airport and flying on to someplace else. Somebody pulled some strings and for some reason the NAACP wouldn't allow McCarthy to speak to their convention. And that was that.

The Advance Man gave me the keys to the room and said to turn them in and when I checked with the desk and the room had been paid for, I got another volunteer who was there and we went out to the boardwalk to try to pick up some chicks and have a party back at the room. It was a rainy night and we met a couple girls and its all a blur after that.

I did see the Advance Man again, in Chicago, on the 17th floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, after it was really all over, the last night of the Convention, and a bunch of us were sitting around the floor in the hall listening to Phil Ochs play guitar and sing. The Advance Man came through and though he seemed like he was in a hurry, he recognized me and was surprised to see me. He stopped and warned me to "be carefull," as it wasn't really, really, all over yet. But I didn't know what he meant.

And a few hours later I was teargassed, beat up and arrested.

Edited May 18, 2008 by William Kelly

[Tim Gratz]

I take it then Bill that your activities on behalf of McCarthy were directed by the CIA?

But not to worry; your secret is safe with me!

[William Kelly]

I take it then Bill that your activities on behalf of McCarthy were directed by the CIA?

But not to worry; your secret is safe with me!

If the CIA was bankrolling McCarthy, none of the money made it to our group.

I organized a few benefit concerts with local bands and we opened a coffee house on weekends and raised a few grand that was used for radio advertisments.

Unlike today's campaigns run by polls and media blitzes, we ran an old style campaign of calling those registered to vote, identifying our supporters, and getting them out to vote on election day.

We operated out of a front office on Haddon Avenue in Westmont, N.J. owned by John Testa, who owned a pet shop on Rt. 38 in Pennsauken that my father (a policeman) said was under surveillance by the FBI for suspected Communist activities.

Testa was a nice guy who had a son Bill who was a Camden ghetto school teacher, and I couldn't understand how a pet shop owner could be a threat to the government.

As I got to know Testa and learned he was a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War against the Fascists, and lost.

The Lincoln Brigade was indeed on the list of subversive organizations, and I thought I was being recruited to join the subversion when Testa took me to a meeting of other Lincoln Brigade vets one night. It was at the other end of Haddon Avenue, the Camden end, in an old, decrepid building where a dozen or so old men met and drank coffee and smoked pipes and cigars. I couldn't understand how they could be such a threat to the national security, the FBI or anybody.

BK

[Tim Gratz]

Bill, I assume you realized I was kidding.

You had a very interesting experience with the McCarthy campaign and have wonderful memories no doubt.

[Tim Gratz]

But I have to point out a non sequitur in Bill's interesting report.

He notes (re the Abraham Lincoln Brigade):

. . . where a dozen or so old men met and drank coffee and smoked pipes and cigars. I couldn't understand how they could be such a threat to the national security, the FBI or anybody.

Now I am not sure if it is Bill's argument that an old man who both drinks coffee and smokes can never be a threat to national security, or whether the categories are independent and we can exclude from threat lists old men, coffee drinkers and smokers. I personally would rank pipe smokers high on the list of security risks.

By Bill's criteria lowest on the watchlist should be young Mormon women (most Mormons neither drink coffee nor smoke.)

Edited November 17, 2007 by Tim Gratz

[Paul Rigby]

Footnotes (Paul Foot), “Blue Gene,” Private Eye, No. 169 (7 June 1968), p.15:

In the Democratic primary in Oregon it was being put about that Senator McCarthy’s campaign was being organised by the CIA...

British affection for RFK was unusual in that it emanated from both the general public, and our hereditary foreign policy establishment (fpe). Perhaps the clearest expression of the latter's enthusiasm is to be found, appropriately enough, in what used to be the house organ of the British establishment:

From our own correspondent, "Mr. Stewart Finds An Ally On Defence Security Policy," The Times, (Thursday), 14 October 1965, p.10:

"Listening to the Senator's speech was an extraordinary experience. In spite of the New England accent, it was like listening to a Foreign Office spokesman expound British policy. Hardly a point was missed, including the necessity of bringing China into nuclear discussions."

My strong impression is that MI6 did not share the enthusiasm of the rest of the British fpe; and that Foot, if I have his career right, was no stranger to that fine body of disinterested professionals.

[William Kelly]

McCarthy in New Hampshire 1968 Flashback.

It didn't have to be this way, however it is they elect Presidents these days.

But I remember the aftershocks of the New Hampshire Democratic primary in 1968, when McCarthy placed such huge double diget numbers against a sitting President that LBJ, shortly thereafter, decided to bow out of the race and the presidency. It just wasn't worth it.

McCarthy's showing in New Hampshire gave us a fatal and false hope that a few determined people could really make change. It wasn't long after New Hampshire that RFK entered the fray, and took away McCarthy's Peace Candidate mantal, but then when Bobby was killed, none of the other Democrats went with McCarthy. They created their own Shill candidate, McGovern instead.

McCarthy's showing in New Hampshire swelled the ranks of young students who thought they could affect the end of the Vietnam war through the democratic process, and learning othewise.

But I don't understand the life or death urgency of the early primaries, as the early indicators don't always play out and its still a long time until the Conventons in August, and anything can happen between now and then.

BK

[William Kelly]

I forgot about this thread and then started to have some flashbacks with all the news reports about the political conventions and the thread about fascism.

Like Peter Dale Scott says, be carefull about when you start calling people fascists.

I don't know about reporters with suposedly all access press passes being denied entry into a private AT&T party qualifies as being fascist.

That sparked a flashback of Chicago in 1968 that I'll try to recount in words.

When I arrived in Chicago, seventeen years old, in jacket and tie, clean for Gene, I checked in at the McCarthy volunteer desk and was given an address and phone number of a young couple who were going to put me up for the week I would be in town. I visited them once, but never stayed there, as all the action was down town.

I stayed at the Conrad Hilton, 17th floor, where they were assigning duties and tasks to the volunteers. I told them I had coordinated volunteers back in Jersey, and was helping out with that when a guy came in and asked for a handfull of bodies to help out his new detachment - the Special Projects Committee.

I quickly volunteered and was given a room number to report to. When I got there, I'd say there were about a dozen or fifteen people, and the meeting was sort of like the meeting in the Great Escape where they lay out the plans and assign duties.

Our jobs would be whatever didn't fall into the categories of any other committee - Volunteers, Security, Public Relations/Press, etc., and among our specific tasks were to arrange for some sort of means of communicating with the McCarthy delegates on the floor of the convention, where no telephones were allowed, and to figure out how to get some key people onto the floor without having passes for them, as the Democratic National Committee were being very stingy with the floor passes. There were a few other tasks that I foget but they were the two that stand out.

I was sent over to Security, where two of my friends from South Jersey, Bob and Dan, were working, and wondering what I was doing. They took my picture and typed out my badge - SPECIAL PROJECTS. "What do you do?" they wanted to know, but I just winked.

My father had told me to check in with a guy he knew, Angelo Errecetti, the head of the Camden, N.J. Public Works and a state senator, whose hotel room door I knocked on. When the door opened, a billow of cigar smoke hit me in the face, and the guy in suspenders let me in, calling for Angelo. He took one look at me and my McCarthy button and credentials and pat me on the back and said that I was working for the wrong guy. He couldn't help me at all. The room was full of guys sitting around playing cards, drinking and smoking cigars, typical backroom politics. Angelo would later become famous for being implicated in the FBI's ABSCAM sting, and before the week was out he would help me, by bailing me out of jail.

When I went by shuttle bus to the Cow Palace, in the stinkey stockyards, I stood outside the place and thought of how I would get in there if it was a rock concert I didn't have a ticket for. Delivering a pizza backstage to Hubert Humphrey didn't seem like it would work.

After awhile, they broke for lunch and a stream of delegates came out of the building, heading for lunch. A few had McCarthy buttons and I stopped one and showed him my SPECIAL PROJECTS badge and asked him if I could use his floor credentials while he was at lunch. I'd meet him back there in one hour. And he gave me his pass.

I went in the building and right onto the floor, and marveled at the whole room, a mass of moving people yelling and shouting and it didn't seem like anybody knew what was going on. I looked up into the galley and saw my boss - the head of the SPECIAL PROJECTS Committee and waved and got his attention. Boy was he shocked to see me. I laughed and waved back and he was telling me to report to him at once.

I walked off the floor and checked in with him and he of course, wanted to know how I did it and I told him, and he immediately sent people to every exit to get McCarthy delegates passes to use while they weren't on the floor. He said it was an absolutly genius idea, so simple it was almost stupid, but it worked, for awhile at least.

It was then that I got to see who they figured out a way to communicate with McCarthy delegates on the floor. They took an IBM selectric typw typewriter, and fixed it so you could type the keyboard in one place and the ball would hit the type about ten yards away. The keyboard was in the galley and the ball and type were under a table of a friendly delegation.

Our systems for communicating with the floor became important later on when the proceedings and floor debate (over Vietnam) were getting hot and they were unaware that there were riots going on downtown. The news of the riots were handed to Julian Bond, of the renegade Georgia delegation, who called for a halt to the convention until they could learn what was happening outside.

When I got back to the Conrad Hilton, the crowds outside were getting unrully. I went up to the McCarthy floor and looked out the open windows as the lines and lines of policemen in riot gear were reinforced by convoys of Army national guard jeeps and trucks with soldiers.

At some point I went outside and among some of the things I remember are a guy climbing a street sign pole and where it read Welcome to Chicago, he replaced Chicago with Prague (was was then being invaded by Russian tanks), a young flower child fluting with soldiers, reporters being pushed around by cops with battons, and after some tear gas went off, a surge of people being pushed by cops into the glass wall of the Conrad Hilton, which broke away and came crashing down on everybody.

At some point McCarthy himself came out and tried to calm things down, speaking to the assembled thousands in the park, encouraging them to get involved and make the system work. Others, some of whom became the Chicago 7 at trial, tried to get the crowd to march on the Cow Palace arena, about three miles away. Some started out but never made it.

After the last night of the Convention itself was over, McCarthy had lost, McGovern had stolen all the Kennedy thunder, Humphry got the nomination and the Vietnam Peace Plank had been shot down, I sat around the 17th floor with a few volunteers and listened to Phil Ochs play guitar and sing some songs.

I drank a glass of whiskey and water on ice, and the Advance Man came by and said hello, and warned me not to drink too much of the booze, and went into one of the bedroom and laid down on a cot and fell asleep.

A few hours later I was awaken by another volunteer who said the police were raiding the floor. They had come off the elevators with their battons flailing and cleared the floor. I was taken down stairs with dozens of others, and hit over the head by a nightstick in the fray. The teargas made you cry and vomit.

I remember being questioned by the cops, who accused people on the 17th floor of throwing ashtrays out the windows, their excuse for the raid.

I mentioned Angelo Erricatti and evetually he shows up and convinces the cops to let me go, but the police took my cash and plane ticket. When I got back to the Hilton McCarthy was in the lobby and yelling at the chief of police or somebody, saying that his people were innocent and were attacked by the police.

When I mentioned my cash and plane ticket predickament to somebody, I was told to go to a special room, where I was met by poet Robert Lowell, a McCarthy pal who gave me $60 for plane fare home.

My father picked me up at the Philadelphia airport and it was a quiet ride home. Erricatti had gotten back to Camden first and said that I was arrested for being drunk and dissorderly.

Sometime later the President's Commission on Civil Disorder came out with an official report that said the Chicago police rioted during the DNC, but that didn't help my standing at home or school.

When a priest at school, the Dean of Discipline, took me aside and told me what Erricatti had said happened in Chicago, and asked if it was right, I just looked at him and said, yea, Erricatti got it right.

[Nathaniel Heidenheimer]

On May 22[1968], a few days before the Oregon primary, Professor Andrew Robinson, who played a key role for McCarthy in Nebraska, had resigned from his campaign, declaring that "the idealism and the gallantry the Senator McCarthy displayed should not be ..Columbia University Press (June 15, 2002)http://www.amazon.com/His-Own-Right-Joseph-Palermo/dp/0231120699 lost in the pell mell rush for the Humphrey bandwagon. The torch has now passed to Robert Kennedy" ROBINSON SAID THE APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS FINNEY, WHO JOINED MCARTHEY AS HIS CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR IN THE LAST WEEKS OF THE OREGON CAMPAIGN, WAS WHAT HAD PUSHED HIM INTO THE KENNEDY CAMP. FINNEY, THE FORMER CIA OFFICIAL AND LAW PARTNER OF DEFENSE SECRETARY CLARK CLIFFORD, MAINTAINED CLOSE TIES TO HUMPHREY

This book by Palermo is the most relevant book to read on the Democrats since 1968. It completely annihilates all of the obvious gatekeeping that has gone on around the RFK hit, which offers the most perspective on teh Corporate Democrats of today, and is hence the most dangerous [and the most ignored] of all of the assassinations.

[Len Colby]

On May 22[1968], a few days before the Oregon primary, Professor Andrew Robinson, who played a key role for McCarthy in Nebraska, had resigned from his campaign, declaring that "the idealism and the gallantry the Senator McCarthy displayed should not be ..Columbia University Press (June 15, 2002)http://www.amazon.com/His-Own-Right-Joseph-Palermo/dp/0231120699 lost in the pell mell rush for the Humphrey bandwagon. The torch has now passed to Robert Kennedy" ROBINSON SAID THE APPOINTMENT OF THOMAS FINNEY, WHO JOINED MCARTHEY AS HIS CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR IN THE LAST WEEKS OF THE OREGON CAMPAIGN, WAS WHAT HAD PUSHED HIM INTO THE KENNEDY CAMP. FINNEY, THE FORMER CIA OFFICIAL AND LAW PARTNER OF DEFENSE SECRETARY CLARK CLIFFORD, MAINTAINED CLOSE TIES TO HUMPHREY

This book by Palermo is the most relevant book to read on the Democrats since 1968. It completely annihilates all of the obvious gatekeeping that has gone on around the RFK hit, which offers the most perspective on teh Corporate Democrats of today, and is hence the most dangerous [and the most ignored] of all of the assassinations.

Nate did you intentionally format you post to be as incoherent as possible? Did Robinson say why he objected to Finney?

"Thomas Finney...was a CIA man for several years in the 1950's. He headed Stevenson's convention fight in 1960, was an advance man for Jack Kennedy and a former administrative assistant for Senator Mike Monroney of Oklahoma, managing his successful campaign in 1962...he was considered to be one of the best campaign managers in the business."

Arthur Herzog, McCarthy for President: The Candidacy That Toppled a President, Pulled a New Generation Into Politics, and Moved the Country Toward Peace Viking Press, 1969 pg 151

http://books.google.com/books?id=Oo8pA_7LDG8C&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=THOMAS+FINNEY+CIA&source=bl&ots=WGgRiFse_O&sig=tazWo-VQgnefausykNfed4e_XrU&hl=en&ei=rrFhTcH-OoH-8AbZvP34Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=THOMAS%20FINNEY%20CIA&f=false

[Guest Tom Scully]

Len,

In addition to Finney, ex-CIA Tom McCoy was hired and Herzog, who you cited in your post, seems kind of biased....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Thomas+Finney+ushers&sa=N&tbs=nws:1,ar:1#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&tbs=nws:1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1968%2Ccd_max%3A1968&q=Tom+McCoy+50+an+other+former+CIA+official&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=McCarthy%27s+National+Field+Director+Quits+%E2%80%8E%22*former+CIA+official%22&psj=1&bav=on.1,or.&fp=4d42d5ed5aa1eb1e

McCarthy's National Field Director Quits

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Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - May 19, 1968

Also appointed to assist McCarthy in his West Coast campaign Saturdaywas Tom McCoy 50 an other former CIA official Ile will travel with the sr in Oregon and ...

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=o_IvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yWwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7525,4594827&dq=mccarthy+finney+mccoy&hl=en

Inside Report ..Mccarthy Amateur Aides! Downgraded For New...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Jun 29, 1968

Moreover, Arthur Herzog, instant rapport with Finney," boycotted the Chicago meet and was ... Finney's men— official Tom mccoy and Herzog— will be upgraded. ...

Nathaniel, nice surprise to read a new post from you, you're contributions have been missed around here.

[Nathaniel Heidenheimer]

Tanks Tom. Lens have missed me toooo.