Early and Growing Concerns About SDS and the Mobe
摘要
This chapter traces a turning point in the FBI’s posture toward Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in April 1965, when the group organized the March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam. In the months that followed, the Bureau tracked what it saw as growing foreign entanglements, particularly as some SDS and Mobe leaders appeared to build relationships with Cuban and North Vietnamese officials. Of greatest concern was activists’ apparent willingness to engage in clandestine cooperation with hostile intelligence services. The chapter also examines the renewed interest of the Soviet-dominated Communist Party USA in SDS, which coincided with the march.