Aggrey Awori Investigated by FBI; Questioned About Russian Speakers

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, questioned Aggrey Awori '65, president of the East African Students' Organization in the Americans, for two and a half hours at his Cambridge apartment two weeks ago.

The agents spent most of the time questioning Awori about a letter he wrote to the CRIMSON in February and about two members of the Russian, delegation to the United Nations which his organization invited to speak at Harvard after the African riots in Moscow last year.

Dean Watson said yesterday that he was aware that Awori had been contacted by the FBI, but that the University was not involved. The FBI usually informs either the dean, the student's house master, or senior tutor before approaching a student.

Letter

In the Letter to the CRIMSON, Awori condemned U.S. military action in the Congo and elsewhere and called on the U.S. to relieve itself of these obligations in order to save its "tarnished and increasingly belicose international image."

In an interview, yesterday, Awori said that the agents asked him who wrote the letter for him. When he explained that he did it himself, he was asked why. He answered that he wrote it because it reflects his convictions.

The men from the FBI then enquired about the two Russian speakers. Awori told the agents that the speakers had come to discuss the African riots and Russia's refusal to pay its United Nations dues because of the Congo incident. They asked if the Russians had made Awori any promises; his answer was no.

At the end of the interview Awori noted, "If you speak your mind, the FBI comes to speak to you."