CIA vs. SCEF?
Subject: CIA vs. SCEF?
Date: 06 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Message-ID: <770no0$b2b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
From an account by James Forman:
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While SNCC faced the viciousness of the Southern way of life, we
were also under constant attack by the white liberal establishment -
especially in New York and especially by way of Red-baiting. In
February, 1962, demonstrations were taking place at Southern
University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dion Diamond, a SNCC field
secretary was arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct, and
vagrancy when he stepped out of a taxi onto the campus, and he
was held on six thousand dollars bond. SNCC chairman Charles McDew
and Bob Zellner, the white field secretary who had been choked by
a racist in McComb, went to visit him in jail. They were arrested
as they were leaving for "criminal anarchy" - described as "an attempt
to overthrow the government of the United States or the state of
Louisiana" - because they were members of SNCC, an organization
which allegedly opposed the laws of Louisiana by force and violence.
McDew and Zellner were held on seven thousand dollars bond. Fortunately
the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) came to our aid once
again and bailed them out. Not long after that I was in New York
with McDew and went to see Andrew Norman and a colleague of his from
the Norman Fund. We were told that it would be impossible to get
money from them as long as we accepted help from the SCEF - which was
still being intensively Red-baited. McDew asked what the people were
supposed to do - stay in jail indefinitely? The Norman Fund was later
implicated as a CIA conduit in the exposure of the operations of the
CIA and the National Student Association.
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From:
James Forman. _The Making of Black Revolutionaries_.
Open Hand; Seattle, WA; 1990
p 272
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The SCEF was the civil rights group in New Orleans whose members
were indicted by Garrison's office.
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Jerry Shinley
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