FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND PRIVACY ACTS SUBJECT: ABBOTTH. HOFFMAN HQ FILE: 176-34 SECTION 2 OF 10 " FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION LEE. THE BEST COPIES OBTAINABLE ARE INCLUDED IN THE REPRODUCTION OF THE FILE. PAGES INCLUDED THAT ARE BLURRED, LIGHT OR OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO READ R ARE THE RESULT OF THE CONDITION AND OR COLOR OF THE ORIGINALS ' PROVIDED. THESE ARE THE BEST COPIES AVAILABLE. L SUBJECT ABBOTT71%. HOFFMAN -.--., 92_92_ 1 __n_ 92_h| ll I-L1-IL '- L_92;;i1_ srscnon __W01-" ?lO?W II ...._--- -¢,_;;....-ya-_-.', ' 92 |-u._-|.-u.-92 . __ .1. .6-nqiT' { é . _ a _ _'M '. /' 'FEDERAL 92 ;|.lUREAU OF lNV|_E$ FIGATION ':"I I " Ii- .L' '*~-.=c_ 92. W ,_ ~ - 1 - ,,' ~ W i ~ _ K Ki > K ' J1 W _.'- 1-? Pt cnlcaoo onnna Qrrlcl . " ornclczncaco or olncm oar! 9/29/as n 9/20 aatucauvl - 29/68 Plllloli 'j_- iamjm=ci§r@1"' * 7 77 -.°IT c HIDE I . 7 c A fv"§ " .7 Anson n. no:-mum. aka. 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' -'v- '3-r" IR ~_ Tle: Er" _ Clioreelcr: SA . om, Chicago -1- 92 Se .: = . synopuln p ember 29, 1968 , Fluid cm" Filo n 176-28 5",, F", i, 176-34 in ABBOTT H. HOFFHRN {@92't_t_[_NFORMATION CONTAINED an nlzr-.iNiS UNCLASSIFIED fa»7" mrmxor wrs 457%, BY J-E-E5 F,/ Secret Service security measures during Democratic National £___. Convention DRE! set forth. HOFFMAN temporarily resided at 1717 ....__ -I. 'I~. ee- .%J --#5.: inci in Lincoln Park. Interviews with military agency and police oiiicers - set forth. Statements made by HOFFMAN to news media and " t. _ .1.,4 92 interviews regarding disruption of interstate transportation, travel and mail set forth. _ p - rncwsunrs:TO vsn L __ {D I { | 1 92 CG 176-28 E»;-*1 . DETAILS: Secre tj Serv1¢*e*§e* :_u*rTijLMeasures _,,_ 1'4 -1 ; 5 i {' I -.._ Z.! E Iaf ..q_ u .~;92~ . n-¢' -2- ._" _ I ' 0 - . ' I 92 I FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION _ ._ __ 1__ UIIc_._.._.- 1 On September 17, 1968, LILBURN BOGGS, Special Agent in Charge, United btates Secret Service, Chicago, Illinois, was interviewed concerning security measures considered necessary by Secret Service during the Democratic National Convention DEC! in Chicago, de- Illinois, in August, lush, and furnished the following information; . 1 The U.$- Secret Service had the duty under the 1.4 law to protect a number or candidates for nomination by the Democratic Party for the office of President or the United States during the DNC. In pursuance-oi th;o ~ - duty Secret Service cooperated with the National Guard, '-_I the Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to arrange the necessary security, ecret éervice ,- had seen a number of reports of such serious nature CUuCOPD 1 ing the possibility of harm to candidates for the nomination .- that no doubt whatsoever existed that extensive security precautions were necessary. Beginning on August 24, 1968, the U.S, Stcret Service "secured" the Amphithe-92..re and the iuunoiate area, I:-' By this, he said he meant that a "bomb sweep" was COnouLt0d and all appropriate searches made and thereafter, the Amphitheatre was planed under a. security gu5.|1'o,, Security precautions were not only hncesanry at the Amphitheatre and its immediate vicinity hut were neces- s= - sary else-here in the city for the purpose u1' st-cur1|.;~; ingress and egress for candidates for nomination to ahu I11--' from the Amphitheatre ahJ further, to secure their temporary residences in downtown Chicago hotels. '75 ln connection with security Hffhmunl to be in effect during the DAG, the City of Chicago ineuireu Whether in the Jmh;emvnt of the 5--cret Service a nnarch of damn- strators to the Amphitheaere would constitute a threat 5 to those persons being protected by the Secret Service. The Secret Ser vice responded that in its Juuuement such __ if _*_Vi i___ __ ____ ____ _ V i i _ _ _ i ii___ ____ __ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _____, _,-_-.--_-_-.-_._-_-.._,,.,_, .,_------------1--I F1 - = .: -,_'_~fr ' o=__ __.9.4.l2£*?¥=I_-_--_-. ..C.'..i9.¥.l§.?1-..11li"P!5..._.--..-.._ r-=- -..Qh.!¢.%£9.,.1"6"§l-----~- .,,___s_;4___,,,,, ____ D... ¢.......____-_-.94AIK?_&---- -___. Tn-Q docunpm cnnlnvu neuron l'IIOI92I92lI92lllIOI92I nor ram lull:-nu 0' "W 7.1- |' '5 "" "'9'"? " "'* '8' "'4 5' |""" " 7"" """" ll Qn no iblllgil In not Io bl lunibulel oululu your Opcne1r- 1 3 '- IF tt cc 2 no-:11 , a_'- V a :.wlrchIety ofbythedemonstrators candidatesfor theunquestionably wouldnomination. JeopardSecret I further recommended that the City of Chicago should not'* A waive any law, regulation or inJnnctiqn currently in force I to control marches and demonstrations in the city with one exception which concerned whether a demonstration should be * allowed to divide and march at the sane time in two or more l groups instead of one. Such division of demonstrators . crowds would not be considered obyectionable by Secret Service. 1 With specific reference to the march led by GREGORY on Auglst 29, 1968, Grant Park to 18th and Iichigan Avenue where the march was halted by police and the Illinois National Guard, hr. HOGGS said that those authorities acted with the full support by the Secret Service in halting the march at that point. To have allowed that larch, which , obviously contained people hostile to Vice President HUBERT H, HUMPHREY who had the night before been noainated for Fresident by the Uenocratic Farty, would have been a bfiib of necessary security precautions. Ir. BOGG5 said concerning the march led by GREGORY that he himself had heard GREGORY speak in Grant Park on August 29, 1968, prior to the bc;.;innin,; 01' ,thc-march, He heard GREGUIIY say that he Ill going to his home and was inviting the crowd of demonstrators to accompany him. he also heard GREGORY say that when they got to GR£G0Y's house,those in the crowd who wanted to i "could go west" to use GR£G0hY'swords. Hr. BOGGS said that west iron GREGORYs house would obviously have been in I the direction of the Amphitheatre where the final session Y or the DNC was in progross.