Gregory Criticizes CIA Tactics, Blames Agency For Atrocities

Dick Gregory, former comedian and left-wing activist, made a plea last night for increased student involvement in what he called the struggle for in-depth research into terrorist activities of the Central Intelligence-Agency.

Gregory spoke to a crowd of nearly 200 people in Science Center Con behalf of the Labor Organizers' Defense Fund (LODF) about the immediate necessity to gather information about CIA deception and "to put them away before they put you away."

The LODF is a radical offshoot of the National Caucus of Labor Committees. Gregory's speech was part of a fundraising drive for the Defense Fund.

Zeke Boyd, U.S. Labor Party organizer for New York and a Communist candidate for the New York State Senate, spoke before Gregory and charged the CIA and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller with "the deliberate destruction of the entire population of Angola while looting primary commodities from that South African country."

Boyd charged the CIA with staging evidence of canabalism in Angola to discredit the population there, and blamed the Langley, Virginia, CIA computer for "the concoction of alphabet soup groups in this country like the SLA or the BLA to perpetuate CIA manipulation of our citizens."

Boyd ended his speech with violent words about Harvard students. "You people are in a goldfish bowl Rocky puts us in to make us scared of what they think of us," Boyd said, "and you're being intellectually gutless and stupid not to notice it."

Pointing to the Joan Little trial and the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. Gregory punctuated his comedy routines with occasional serious notes concerning the "sick, insane, degenerate society we live in."

He emphasized the need for everyone to help in the search for "basic facts" about illicit CIA activities and presented statistics about alleged CIA involvement in the assassinations of former President John F. Kennedy '40, former Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

At the end of his hour and 45 minute speech, Gregory said. "I am sure Rockefeller owns Burger King because his favorite song has to be 'Have it Your Way.'"