FBI informant tells of order 4.0N F 3174 to break Panther-SDS ties

By Betty Washington ant, William O'Neal, to dis- STANLEY 'earlier testified An FBI Informant was or- rupt the budding alliance. that the FBI drew three car- dered to break up an embry- His testimony came during toons aimed at discrediting the onic alliance" between the the trial of a $4.7-million dam- alleged alliance between the and Stu- age suit charging 28 present SDS and the Panthers to make de n to for a Democratic and former law-enforcement it appear as if the Panthers Society,. a former FBI had become subservient to the officials with conspiracy in the SDS. official has testified. killings of Panther leaders Joseph Stanley, former head The cartoons were sent to Mark Clark and Fred Hamp t h e newspaper Muhammad of the FBI's count- ton In a raid on a West Side erintelligence program here, Speaks, published by the Na- apartment Dec. 4, 1969. tion of Islam, commonly said that in May, 1969, the FBI Stanley and Joseph McCabe, learned the SDS and the Pan- known as the Black Muslims. who succeeded him In the Stanley said he did not know thers had decided to pursue counterintelligence post later. certain mutual objectives. whether the cartoon ever was In 1969, both testified that they printed. Stanley testified Thursday • believed the Black Panther. McCabe later testified that before U.S. District Court Party was a revolutionary Judge Joseph Sam Perry that or-' he believed it was FBI policy ganizatlon that stressed vio- to neutralize organizations he asked FBI headquarters In lence and the overthrow of the Washington to tell the inform- thought to be violence-prone by government. discrediting their members.