by Clavir ANATOMY A.K.A. Judy Cleaver OF A "Gumbo" Judith Lee Hemblen STAKE-OUT FBI File #834-225-G and Stew Albert The Case A.K.A. Stewart Edward Albert Stew Alpert That Cracked Stu Alpert the FBI FBI File # (unknown)

THE STORY YOUARE ABOUT TO READ IS TRUE. THIS ARTICLE WAS PREPARED WITH THE RELUCTANT COOPERATION OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...

• Since we fir" st covered the Clavir/Albert break-in at the home of Albert and Clavir charging from 70 to 20 bureau officials FBI spying case one year ago it has devel- in 1974. Other top bureau officials who with civil rights violations. More and oped into a Continuing Saga. A 5400,000 have become targets of the inquiry have more, the paranoia of the '450s is being lawsuit has slowly provoked a host of been transferred to new jobs or otherwise proved the reality of the 70s. This article chilling revelations, The latest hoist is placed under sanction. For more than six is perhaps the most realistic look ever at that fames O. Ingram, head of the FBI's months, Justice Department lawyers have the day-to-day life of FBI huntsmen and revised domestic intelligence operation, is been looking into illegal surveillance con- their prey—told most revealingly in the being investigated by federal prosecutors ducted by F81 agents centered in New words of itinerant G- men themselves. for hazing given an order to withhold York and claim they have sufficient from Congress information about a evidence to seek criminal indictments * * •

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The When Clavir and Albert returned to The December, 1973, issue of the FBI watchdogs will follow Clavir to and , they were tailed con- University Review, 857 Broadway, New around the college campus where she is stantly for two weeks and then sub- York City (new address), contains a letter employed as a sociology professor. They poenaed to a grand jury. Nothing came of written by STEW ALBERT, Hurley, N.Y., will copy down the license plates of guests this investigation. Clavir and Albert did in which ALBERT delivers a eulogy about who visit the couple's cabin and, in some not comprehend that the FBI believed that Victor Jara, an apparent Chilean folk- cases, will follow their visitors home. a couple of stoned, disorganized Yippies singer/revolutionary. The federal government, sources close could be responsible for the Capitol Investigation currently being con- to the government and the FBI itself will assault; after all, the Weather Under- " '''ducted at Hurley, N.Y., to determine the eventually admit these transgressions as a ground had already claiMed full credit for present residence and activities of subjects result of a lawsuit which Clavir and Al- this retaliation against Nixonian violence ALBERT and CLAVIR. bert launch against FBI Director Clarence in Vietnam. Instead, Clavir and Albert Kelley. Clavir and Albert will receive viewed themselves as convenient targets Stew Albert is walking barefoot in the "eyes-only" files kept on them by govern- for political harassment by an FBI appa- Catskill Mountains. It is December 4, ment agencies. The files are heavily cen- ratus clearly unable to locate the fast- 1973, Albert's thirty-fourth birthday, and sored prior to their release, with names moving fugitives of the Weather Under- the day is unusually warm. Albert and and whole paragraphs detailing FBI ground. Clavir have recently left behind the para- The couple was already used to a cer- noiac walls of New York City and pur- tain degree of surveillance. In the late chased a compact. out-of-the-way log 1960s, the FBI had surrounded them with cabin. They are no longer activists in the informers. These paid agents and un- , which appears to be disinte- salaried volunteers who insinuated grating from a combination of mur-. themselves into the couple's friendship der/suicide, FBI-CIA attacks, and its own had often fed the FBI spectacularly false internal self-hatred. pieces of information about their political Albert and Clavir are at peace. The sun activities and psychological make-up: shines, the stream bubbles, the last of the autumn birds chirp in bare branches. DATE: 7/2.3./69 Relaxed and happy, they are glad to be On July 23, 1969, alive in their private world. , advised as follows: They are not aware that on the road at the bottom of the hill, the New York of- had occasion to be in the residence occti. fice {NYC) of the Federal Bureau of Inves- pied by ALBERT, CLAVIR and tigation watches their every step, con- in Berkeley on July 20, 1969. After con- ducting a round-the-clock stake-out of suming some wine, ALBERT boasted their personal Garden of Eden. about smuggling out of the UNITED STATES. At approx- TO: Director, FBI imately 12:30 a.m. on July 21, 1969, 9 FROM: telephone call was received at the On 12/4/73 CLAVIR and ALBEg residence which originated from Algiers; were observed at 300 Canary Hill Ro Algeria. The caller was reported to be Hurley, N.Y. advised motivation whited out. Nonetheless, cer- KATHLEEN CLEAVER. Both ALBERT CLAVIR or ALBERT would check th tain startling facts emerge. and CLAVIR talked to KATHLEEN mail at the post office, Hurley, N. Who are Clavir and Albert to deserve CLF_AVER. gave the impres-' every Monday through Friday. . such attention/ shin that ALBERT and CLAVIR intended further advised that they drove a 1966 t At one time, the Federal Bureau of In- to travel to Algiers and were going to Volkswagen bearing license #845 MAC. . vestigation seemed committed to the bring ELDRIDGE CLEAVER back to thd On l2/5/73 advised that belief that Clavir and Albert were respon- United States via a secret route. CLAVIR and ALBERT purchased the sible for the bombing of the U.S. Capitol On one occasion STEWART ALBERT house at 300 Canary Hill Road from Building in Washington, D.C., in March Was described as an egotist who was uri; Rt. 46, Woodstock, N.Y. of 1971. In fact, Clavir and Albert were comfortable when realizing he was "seci in Washington when the explosion went and rank" among the leadership of rad- II off. Together with a group of other ac- ical youth in the United States. ALBER tivists, they were editing a newspaper was jealous of the publicity and attention From December 4, 1973, to December which would urge people to attend the which has been afforded to other nal 13. 1975. the FBI and its secret "Weather upcoming Mayday antiwar demonstra- Honally known leaders such as JERRY' fugitive" unit will commit numerous tions. Their work completed, they had CLYDE RUB1N, ELDRIDGE CLEAVERA criminal acts against the persons and pro- left Washington the day after the big THOMAS HAYDEN, who are presentlye perty of Clavir and Albert. This federal blast. friends and associates of ALBERT. It was conspiracy to violate their civil rights will Just outside Philadelphia, the suspects' typical of ALBERT to hint and imply that include: burglary of their house; theft of car was stopped. he assisted ELDRIDGE CLEAVER evade objects from their house (subsequently "Get out of there with your hands up," arrest in California. sent to an FBI laboratory for "testing"); boomed a loudspeaker. Shotgun barrels It was believed that STEWART copying by U.S. Post Office employees of stared. Four shaky individuals emerged BERT was not trusted sufficiently by t 60 CRAW DADDY an-7 CLEAVERS and other BPP leaders to be a BO appeared to be deeply involved in the hour basis very difficult. party in the CLEAVERS' possible secret New Left Movement. In addition, Clavir, who in every sur- return to the United States, During this time ALBERT appeared to veillance situation encountered to date is be friendly with , but the person who drives when the subjects The phone call really happened, but was constantly badgered by the irritable leave their residence, is known to drive at neither Clavir nor Albert nor the Cleavers JUDY GUMBO. ALBERT appeared to be speeds in excess of 80 miles per hour on would be so indiscreet as to discuss deeply committed to the "movement" as roads which are sometimes devoid of any Eldridge's return on a tapped telephone. this was his only source of identity. He other traffic. This also makes surveillance The FBI's analysis of Albert's behavior appeared to be an easygoing person who very difficult. was one-sided. Albert liked to boast, but did not respond to the verbal abuse of not about things he hadn't done. Through Miss GUMBO. Clavir and Albert have never owned a lies and exaggerations, the informer had (Miss GUMBO is well-known among car which can do much more than 60, but tried to improve his standing with the the Berkeley radical community and is Clavir is very familiar with the narrow G-men. considered as one of the leading activists winding roads on Hurley Mountain. The In 1969-70. as part of the antiwar offen- in the militant Women's Liberation FBI wheelmen can't follow her and need Clavir had done a lot of interna- Front). :L,, to find an explanation for how an old tional traveling. The FBI had monitored Volkswagen can outdistance a new Ford. her flight plans with the thoroughness of FBI informers do not like militant The charge of "speeding" is added to topnotch travel agents. feminists. Clavir was portrayed not so Clavir's other crimes. much as a woman struggling for libera- The Special Agents, similarly, do not REPORT OF tion but as an old battle-axe, The FBI prove to be made of rugged stuff. When DATE:1/10/70 tried to discredit Clavir in the women's the heavy mows and subzero storms of OFFICE: , Calif. movement. They invented a grotesque January and February blow in icily from JUDITH CLAVIR, of Berkeley, Calif. tale in the COINTELPRO manner. the north country, the Feds migrate went to Hanoi, south, back to the heated offices of New North Vietnam, via Moscow, USSR, on TO: Director, FBI DATE: 4/25/72 York City. May 14, 1970. The were osten- FROM: SAC, New York sibly invited by the North Vietnamese Subject was supposedly aided during TO: Director, FBI government at the time was at- rape by JUDY CLAVIR (Judy Gumbol FROM: SAC, New York VIA: AIR The tending the Stockholm, Sweden. Interna- who allegedly held the victim immobile Coverage of the CLAVIR!ALBERT tional antiwar conference. while committed the act. residence during the month of _January Some radical women's groups have has been greatly hampered by the inclern= TO: Director, FBI knowledge of rape and ent weather conditions prevalent in that FROM: allegedly spread money around to quiet area. advised on things. Investigation is continuing within the 7-4-70 that arrived in Paris New York Division in an effort to from the United States on 7-8-70 accom- Ill of the of CLAVIR panied by one JUDY CLEAVER. They and ALBERT and determine exactly what' reportedly came to discuss the organiza- One year later, when the couple moves the activities of these two individuals are. tion of a conference with the North Viet- to the mountains, the FBI moves with namese delegation to the Peace Con- them. It takes the feels nine months to In the dead of winter, agents from New ference. locate their hideaway. After conventional York visit Hurley rarely, leaving surveil- requested to be furnished detective work fails, Albert unwittingly lance activities to their Kingston counter- with information regarding the identity of tips his hand in writing a letter to a parts. These local agents drop in every JUDY CLEAVER and if she is related to radical magazine from "Hurley, N.Y." week or two on the Hurley post office. In the late winter, hungry deer come There, two middle-age women hand them down to the mountain cabin looking for a carefully copied list of names of every Clavir's alleged family ties with handouts. The land is stark, snowy white person who has corresponded with the Cleaver seem amusing, but she was once and peaceful. .Five years earlier, Clavir couple, and every person the pair have kicked out of an Oakland apartment by had been made aware of the importance written to. These busybodies feign an irate landlady who was told by the FBI of terrain by Vietnamese patriots. friendliness, engaging the couple in con- of this blood relationship. "Always be aware," they told her as she versations which they then faithfully Informers can earn incentive pay and toured hospitals and factories hidden in report to the Feds. Their intelligence- build their self-importance through flights caves, "of the earth, the sky and the peo- gathering goes as far as noting any of fancy, but they also harbor personal ple." At the time, she did not understand changes in physical appearance. Clavir, hostilities which lead them to exaggerated how the physical-layout of the land could the women reveal, is now wearing her political biases. become significant in an undeclared war hair in braids. Albert appears to have -177-c777: with the FBI. gained weight, and "a small gold earring DATE: 2/14 72 The shelter of the forest also Forces the was observed on the subject's left ear, REPORT OF: agents to invent excuses for failure. which appears to be pierced." TO: Director, FBI GUMBO is a very intelligent and well- TO: Director, FBI DATE: 11/27/74 TO: Director FBI DAW[12., 27/73 organized individual, but would be more FROM: SAC, New York VIA: AIRTEL FROM: SAC, New York effective but for personality defects, The Bureau should be aware of the fact NYO feels that no mail cover should be GUMBO was an extremely irritable, that the subjects reside in a rural area in initiated at this time for subjects' mail bad-tempered person who was not very an isolated dwelling that is accessible only because of the close working relationship well liked by "movement" people. She by the most circumspect methods, usually existing with and because made herself extremely hard to Like. She at night when surveilling personnel can- is willing to supply more information was well-versed in Maoism. She was also not be seen. This, of course, makes com- about the subjects than that which would a smoker of "grass" {marijuana). GUM- plete coverage of the subjects on a 24- be requested under mail cover. FEBRUARY 1977 61

157,7 ?r7a7a • .1. In a small, somewhat wealthy town names of every individual who writes to Sensible secret police would abandon like Hurley, where FBI agents have been the couple, to find out if SLA soldiers are surveillance attempts that consistently acquaintances and neighbors for thirteen corresponding via code. The search is ex- yield no meaningful data. But someone in years, the thought of not cooperating haustive, extending as far as Clavir's Washington is convinced that the subjects with the authorities does not cross these middle-age aunt in Toronto. Patty Hearst must be up to something—why else women's minds. No one needs to request and Bill and Emily Harris, as Clavir and would they have moved to a place where authorization For "mail covers" which, Albert would learn months later, were in- spying is so difficult? Desperate for input, when they are legally administered, have deed visiting the Catskills during this they have even gone so far as to obtain a time limitations set down In the post of- period, but the SLA is not so foolish as to hospital report on Albert which describes fice rule book. No sanctions are placed on pitch their tent at such an obvious camp- his rather serious heart condition in upstanding citizens who merely comment ing spot as Hurley Mountain. The pessimistic terms doctors have kept hid- on small-town gossip. fugitives stay at Crossinger's instead. Bill den from the patient himself. The harshest post office caper is copy- Harris wears a beard and yarmulke and, The lower-level field agents are under ing down messages found on the back of underground in the midst of the Borscht heavy pressure to draw some incriminat- post cards. As far as the couple can tell, Belt, the trio passes unnoticed as wealthy ing evidence from this bottomless well of however, their letter mail remains sealed. hippie Jews. - •• ambiguous information. These opera- The local agents also make it their In the course of this intensive surveil- tives can't even accurately evaluate what business to check periodically with the lance, just what does the FBI learn about data they do have because they have Kingston Trust Company to obtain ongo- the threateningly subversive activities of been ordered by their bosses to find evi- ing reports of the ups and downs of the Clavir and Albert? It turns out that the dence of Illicit activity. When a year of couples bank balance. Again, the local subjects lead a relatively conventional relentless gumshoe work yields no sub- bank is happy to comply, and the files life. stantial results, the FBI makes the deci- show fortunes dipping to an ebb of $0.27 sion to burglarize the cabin. in January of 1974. The FBI's interest is in TO:SAC Burglaries are felonies, even when the — large transactions, which indicate to their FROM: second-story men are government minds that Clavir and Albert might be During the period 11.'23-12/19/ bureaucrats. (The break-in is never turning over vast sums to fugitives. The spot checks conducted in the Hurley- specifically mentioned in the FBI files show no such withdrawals. Kingston, N.Y., area regarding activities documents, but the Justice Department The bank also provides the FBI copies and movements of the subjects have been admits that an "electronic listening of every check Clavir writes. A bank of- negative in results. The subjects on device" was installed in the Clavir/Albert ficial walks to the local FBI office to several occasions have been observed by - cabin for a 17-day period, from deliver the evidence personally. frequenting the U.S. Post Office, November 1 to November 17, 1974. Hurley, N.Y., and stores in the Kingston Later, when the burglary comes to light, a • • • . Shopping Plaza, Kingston, N.Y., notably , very reliable source will inform the cou- As the snow melts and robins begin to the laundromat and Grand Union. No ple that as well as installing the device, chirp, the forest comes alive with early unusual activity has been observed. No the FBI agents also searched their house, flowers, baby frogs and a fresh crop of subjects were observed accompanying ransacked their garbage and photo- FBI agents. CLAVIR or ALBERT during these occa- graphed all their notebooks and docu- In May of 1974, the FBI is conducting a sions. ments.) In the coded language of the FBI nationwide hunt for Patricia Hearst. memoranda of this period, the spies com- Their widely-publicized inability to find In connection with activities and pliment themselves for a difficult job well her is proving a gross embarrassment. movements of captioned subjects, spot done. During this period, agents apparently checks were conducted by as in- receive information that Patty might be dicated below, off campus in TO: Director, FBI DATE: 11127/74 sitting in the living room of the mountain vicinity of Duryea House, State Universi- FROM: SAC, New York cabin, warming her toes by the wood- ty College (SUC), New Paltz, N.Y. This For the information of the Bureau, the burning stove. location is frequented on a regular basis NYC] has, over a period of sever-4 by CLAVIR and appears to be the focal months, been intensifying its efforts t4 revealed that point for her activities on campus, specif- determine exactly how CLAVIR and may be hiding at the ically her teaching of sociology courses. ALBERT are involved with CLAM/ ALBERT cabin, Hurley, NY, In addition to observing the subjects' , and ',Odle& they On 117x74 through 5/3/74, agents from Volvo, bearing N.Y. license 436 ALF, the are playing in RC+ the NYO conducted a following vehicles all bearing N.Y. license tivities in this area. In an effort to ac- of the CLAVIR/ALBERT cabin. were observed parked in the vicinity of complish this, the NYO has conducted Further surveillance of the CLAVIR: the Duryea House on a regular basis: thorough and penetrative investigations ALBERT cabin on the nights of 5/1/74 utilizing all logical and imaginative and 5/2/74 revealed the presence of an techniques at its disposal, unidentified Caucasian female, medium In spite of the logistical problems, the height/build, with shoulder length black NYO gained the following information hair. by TO: Director, FBI during the surveillance of the subjects NYC) has failed to identify this in- FROM: SAC, New York from 11/1.'74 to 11/17/74: dividual. On 5/1/74 CLAVIR and ALBERT were several unidentified observed transporting an unidentified individuals have visited the Caucasian male to the Kingston, N.Y., CLAV1R/ALBERT cabin during the last Continental Trailways Bus Station, in The isolated cabin becomes a clear two weeks. , however, was not CLAVIR'S Volkswagen. This individual channel radio station, broadcasting loud. observed. was further observed by Bureau Agents and clear over WFBI. November is deer- when he arrived in New York City and hunting season in the Catskills and this During this period, the FBI makes an was identified through year the land abounds with trespassing especially vigilant effort to check out the hunters; a suspicious army of hunters vir- 62 CRAWDAODY

•'777.71Zrr4:27%. 7 1 Wally camp out on the couple's front Rubin's Growing Up at 37, and Marge neighbors, the FBI stakes out a private lawn. But all the FBI's "logical' and Piercy's Srnall Changes. road and copies every license plate. The 'penetrative" techniques yield little in- It's traumatic to have G-men running feds are amazed "that visitors arriving in formation. around outside one's house late at night the area of the subjects' cabin do not have but it is a violation of more obscene intent difficulty locating the site." Every license TO: Director, FBI to have all semblance of privacy ripped number is run through a computer and FROM: away. Clavir and Albert are raped by the the G-men learn the names, ages and ad- It has been learned that the subjects are FBI. The special agents regard their vic- dresses of those picnickers who thought involved in at least one discussion group tims as rival machines, without rights or they were innocently contributing a few in the Hurley, N.Y., area, which prob- feelings; in the process of electronic bucks and having a good time over hot ably meets on Sunday nights. The exact eavesdropping, civility is shed. How can dogs and beer. location of this study group and the iden- the couple hope for a dignified life when, But the special agents are starting to tities of the individuals who make it up for 17 days, their petty rages, their most reach the boiling point. Surveillance, burglary, electronic eavesdropping have not yielded even the names of the people in the study group, let alone evidence of criminal conspiracies or harbored fugi- tives. Excuses must become even more in- ventive.

TO: Director, FBI FROM: SAC, New York DATE: 6/10/75

surveilling agents have continued to meet with the greatest degree of difficulty when attempting to provide effective coverage of the subjects and their movements. The subjects' movements are completely un- predictable, making logical investigative techniques very difficult to employ. In- stead of leaving on the appointed day, the subjects chose to leave three days later, leaving behind four individuals,

REQUEST OF THE BUREAU In order to effect surveillance of the subjects during the summer months when experience has shown their activities in- crease, permission is requested to utilize an electronic "beeper" on the vehicle driven by the subjects. The bureau should be advised that the equipment necessary are, as yet, undetermined. It is felt that intimate conversations, even their to effect the above procedure these discussions center around lovemaking become data for police com- , and available for use as and that CLAV1R and ALBERT take puters? soon as approval is received. an active role in such discussions. As well as burglary, Clavir and Albert referred to as " ", has are also victims of theft. Objects are TO: SAC, New York DATE: 6/27/75 also been a topic for discussion. The NYO taken from their house, items innocuous FROM: Director, FBI is not aware of any current enough not to be missed but somehow Bureau authority is granted for New and request that receiving of- vital to the interests of the FBI. York to utilize electronic "beeper" on fices promptly contact logical sources to vehicle being driven by subjects CLAVIR determine if this is a TO: Director, FBI and ALBERT. New York ensure that no FROM: SAC, New York entry is made to any part of this vehicle On 2/7/75 the NYO submitted various and ensure that installation of this The quotation marks around the to the "beeper" is made while vehicle is parked whited-out area indicate a direct overhear FBI laboratory for . Examina- in a public area or on a public access. on the listening device. The discussion tion to determine if any of those samples New York should keep FBIHQ advised group will come to haunt the New York match samples already filed. Results of of the results gained from the use of this office of the FBI. Again and again they this examination will be appropriately device. will try to pin down who is in it, where it disseminated. meets and what its relationship might be Several weeks later, the special agents to something worth investigating. But The only major political event which admit to making no interesting discov- even with their sophisticated electronic takes place on Hurley Mountain during eries concerning the activities and con- eavesdropping, the special agents are this entire period is a fund-raising picnic tacts of Clavir and Albert during the unable to break the group. If they had for the Shoshanna (Pat Swinton) period this homing device was in opera- been able to place a live informer inside Defense Committee. Two hundred people tion. Nevertheless, they report to their the discussions. he or she would have from the Catskills, New York City and superiors that the device "appeared most discovered a reading list of such subver- New England show up on what turns out effective." As a result, they request and sive classics as Gore Vidal's Burr, Jerry to be 1975's hottest day. Alerted by are granted permission to place a second FEBRUARY 1977 63

..!V-cAtiN%1Ott,044 "U,',A"'•'T4, • device on the car in December, 1975. This tant part of the car or. worse yet. a had cut the batteries out before their very overreaching, it turns out, is to become a bomb? Impetuously, Clavir clips it out— eyes. The G-men are lying to save their humiliating and costly mistake. finds two batteries held together with red skins, asserting authority in their written tape. report in an attempt to avoid blame. TO: Director, FBI DATE: 12/15/75 The next day. at a press conference FROM: SAC, New York they discuss the event publicly and the The MO can only speculate as to how At approximately 11 a.m., December feds read all about it in the New York the subjects became aware of the elec- 11, 1975, this device was placed on the Post. The FBI is upset, the street oper- tronic beeper on their car. above vehicle while it was parked in a atives on the defensive. public shopping area in Kingston, N.Y. It is not difficult to spot the five-car This installation was conducted under the Reference is made to the fact that tail, which has to crawl into the Volvo's most secure conditions, in that prior to CLAVIR at one point reached under the rear-view mirror to keep tabs on the installation, it was determined that fender and pulled one of the batteries out now-alert couple Clavir and Albert are CLAVIR and her companion, STEWART of the beeper. The facts regarding this are dumbfounded, and not a little frightened, ALBERT were alone, and at as follows: wondering why, after some three years of the exact time of installation were placed When the subjects approached their living in seclusion, they are now being in a department store several hundred vehicle at approximately 1:00 p.m. on tracked by carloads of FBI agents. They yards from the vehicle. Both subjects December 13, 1975, they were observed speculate that it has something to do with were under close and constant visual ob- opening the trunk and moving packages their friends, radical lawyers Margaret servation, and at no time could observe around. At the Lime, the beeper was Ratner and , even the parking lot during the installa- working. After entering the car and driv- tion. ing for approximately five minutes, sur- Both CLAVIR and ALBERT were oliT •The device was placed between the por- veilling agents realized the beeper had served entering their car and proceeding tion of the rear body of the vehicle which stopped. At the next opportunity, under on several circuitous routes along the extends below the rear bumper and gas secure conditions, while both subjects West Side highway and surrounding tank. The location of the beeper was de- vicinity, obviously attempting to stop a termined after NYO agents visited a NYC surveillance. After several such trips, Volvo dealer and inspected several simi- CLAVIR and ALBERT return to lar vehicles. This location was previously KUNSTLER, RATNER house, where they utilized with success during the ,pezloci again entered. August 25, 1975-Sept. 5, 1975. A few moments later, Kunstler, Ratner. The craziness of New York City streets Clavir and Albert re-emerge. Kunstler provides better cover for spies than the bends down, reaches under the rear mellow woodlands of the Catskills, and bumper of the Volvo and yanks off a fully so Clavir and Albert almost convince functioning homing device. To the bitter themselves that those funny-looking men end, the feds had behaved by rote. Rather flashing hand signals to one another are than switching tactics, they had repaired merely another variety of the device instead of removing it. psychotic. But these hunters are just too obvious. Perhaps G-men are tiring of the IV couple and their unpredictable schedules; perhaps they unconsciously want to blow These extracts from the files of the FBI it. Probably they are simply overconfi- are concrete evidence of a prolonged dent. Too much routine can lead even criminal attack on Judith Clavir and Stew strict professionals into sloppy behavior Albert. The pair is now suing the govern- and public embarrassment. ment for damages and relief. Before they learned of the break-in at their home, FroM this point on, both CLAVIR and they (along with Kunstler and Ratner) ALBERT became very evasive, obviously had demanded $100,000 apiece. Now, attempting to determine if they were be- were under surveillance away from the perhaps, they'll ask for more. ing followed. Around 11:15 p.m. the vehicle, the device was removed and Clavir and Albert still live in the cabin above returned to Grove Street. They checked. At that time it was discovered on top of Hurley Mountain. Nature's were accompanied by WILLIAM M. that one of the batteries was missing. seasons continue to evoke an inspiring KUNSTLER . The surveillance Presumably it had fallen out of its clip. and diverse beauty but now the foliage is was terminated after no activity was After replacing this battery, the device more than lovely, it is also potential observed for the next two hours and all was put back on CLAVIR'S vehicle. At no camouflage for police. The forest, lights were turned off in the building. time was either subject observed attempt- through no fault of its own, has lost its ing to locate the device or remove bat- innocence. The next morning, following breakfast teries. If such was the case, the device in a luncheonette, Clavir and Albert walk most certainly would not have been put Repeated efforts to surveil the subjects' to their car. Clavir has spotted some back. The assumption that the above bat- study group meeting place have failed due peculiar characters in the street and wants tery had fallen out of its clip was based on to the conditions existing in the aseil to check the Volvo• She looks under the CLAVIR'S propensity for high-speed where the subjects reside and extrerna rear bumper, One area is unusually clean driving over many miles of rough terrain, paranoia which seems to pervade theie for such an unkempt auto. She reaches where ample opportunity is available for thinking. under and feels, to her amazement, a such a thing to happen. metallic package attached to the under- When official burglars and eavesdrop- side. Clavir wants to take it out but When in trouble, the agents again pers cal] their victims paranoid, words, as Albert is worried—maybe it's an impor- blame Clavir's driving. In reality, Clavir well as laws, have lost their meaning. 64 CRAWDADDY

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