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DISRUPT- )N OF TILE &Eli LEFT
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16 inlet to Albany, 5/10/68.
All SA personnel responsible for the investigation I
of the New Loft and key Activists in the Cincinnati Division .
have bocn alerted to the Bureau’s Counterintelligence plans
relating to these groups and individuals.
Detailed analysis of potential CountcrintclliJIence’
acti& nqninst ticw Left organizations and key figures in the
Cincinnati Division has been inibiated with the following
results’
Primary ?reas of h’cw Left activity in the Cincinnati
Division territory are Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio;
Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, Ohio; and through the
Cincinnati Committee To End the Kar in Vietnam and Cincinnati
Action ior Peace at Cincinnati, Ohio.
ANTIOCD COLLEGE
YELLOX SPIIIXS, OHIO
The center for Kcw Left nctivilay in the Cincinnati
Division area is believed to be Antioch College, Yellow Springs.
Ohio, and the community of Yellow Springs itself. For a number
, of years individuals from the college and the town have been
a part of the hew Left vanguard.
f.fCT Antioch was along the first coilcRes to have a Cp;
USA speaker on campwzi shortly after the party started this
. Other speakers have apoeared on campus on behalf
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of the Socialist Workers Party (WP), Young Socialist Alliance
. (YSp), Fair Play For Cuba Committee (PPCC). Student;nrp;ct
Democratic Society (SDS). as ~~11 RS Black Power.
students organized a draft rcsistancc protCSt group fOllorinF:
SDS leadership. This group led a demonstration at Cincinnati,
Ohio, on 12/7/G7, during which large numbers of Participants
brazenly defied law and order, resulting in the arrest of
over 85 of their number, and causing the disruption of the
orderly activities of the city for several days. In other
protest-type demonstrations of a national character, Antioch
.and Yellow Springs have been represented by numbers exceeding
their enrollment and population.
Antioch is a small, privately endowed liberal arts
and science collqe, with a total average enrollment of about
1,So’O. Yellow Springs, home of the collcgc, is a village of
about 4,200 people, 18 miles eati of Dayton, Ohio, on Ifighway 42.
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Students attend college for three months, after which they leave-
the campus to work’at one of a large number of agcncics and
companies which cooperate with Antioch.in this program. The
student body is purposely diverse. In 1964 – lDG.5, students
‘ came from 49 states. Ilnshington, D.C.., and 18 foreign countries.
The current president of Antioclr is .lA>IES PAYSOS DIXON, JR.,
born 3/15/17! at Portsmouth, h’ew IlnmpShircL Ilc is a medic&i
“doctor, rccerving his degree in 1939 from llnrvnrd, and in 1943 ’
an L1.S. degree at Columbia. Ile intcrncd,at Boston City Iiospital
during 1944, and for the most part since that time has held
administrative-type positions. Re has been connected with the
Rockefeller Foundation. lie served from surgeon to medical
director, U.S. Public Health Service, 1952 to 1954, and was a
member of the National Advisory Council in 1960. He has been
President of Antioch College since 1959. .>.I .
As an example OfDIXON’s attitude, during 1967, two
Antioch CollcRe students were arrested attempting to smunnle
marijuana into the- U.S. On public disclosure of thcsc facts,
DIXON hold a convocation at the college during which as a
rncdical doctor, he attacked narcotics control laws in general,
and challenged the idea that use of marijuana was harmful.
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Antioch prides itself greatly on a “highly intellectual’!
. and*”academic, scholarly environment.”
Actually the campus is most often run by a small
group of militants that are permitted by collcfze authorities
to attack every segncnt of Amcrlcnn society under the
semblance of being “highly intellectual.”
Anyone vlsitinq the campus doubts its “acndcmic,
scholarly environment” because of the dirty anti-social appearance,
.and behavior of a large number of students can be seen to have
the fullest “beatnik image.”
Yellow Springs follows the lead of Antioch. It has an
overabundance of self-declared “intclldctuals,” whose morals
and habits are also anti-social,
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college newspaper protests the appearance on campus of a
representative of Any investigative agency or military agency.
Local newspaper editorializes against any logical support or
police agencies.
Cincinnati recommends that Counterintelligence
action be taken to expose the pseudo intellectual image of
Antioch by the following:
1. Review files at Cincinnati to identify 30 to 40
former students who were militant campus leaders.
2. Set out leads to other offices to discreetly
determine the achievement of these individuals since leaving
Antfoch.
3. Continuing this method, identify a significant
number who have attended Antioch, and have a low achievement
record as shown by public source material. .
4. Furnish results to
“Cincinnati Enquirer,” a newspaper of
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general circulation at Cincinnati, Ohio. ‘is also an
SAC contact. Agreement would be made with ’ to use this
matcrinl in n article questioning whether Anti&h is in fact
“highly into .lectunl” and whether students are. actually
receiving a quality education there.
: Following publishing of the article, give
wide nnonyn us circulation of copies to parents of current
students identified from student directories. Also circulate
copies of the article to mcmbcrs of the Donrd of Directors of
Antioch and to the personnel directors of all businesses that
are a part of the Antioch co-op plan.
DESIRED RESULT OF ACTION:
Force Antioch to defend itself as an educational
.institution . Force attention on activities gn the Antioch
campus ?y me p;lr~nrc ~~~~ erc ce~dx,- t!:c:r cCil6rc:: tc t.k
college for an education. Force the Antioch administrators to
curtail the activities of those students who spend most of their
time engaging in anti-social activity,protc.st demonstratibns,
and affiliation with subversive groups.
Cincinnati will take no action on this recommendation
until it has been reviewed at the Bureau, and authorization is
received.
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SAC, Cincinllati,
Director, l?DI
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Dulct 5/1O/C3 instructed all offices to sulxit
au:zcstionn rc:zrdin: potc:iti.-.l co:lntcilnt~lli~:cncc action
ncaiust t1rc IICi’l L*>;t. CI Office stl~’:cstCtl ttl3t it ti!3 n
study on foxxr nilitz9t ntctlcntr; lcxlcrr. ~lho nrc no:, n3
lonpzr in collc~o to dctcraiuc chcthcr ilicsc stixlcnts hnvc
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