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Show May 19, 1972 of a State Senator. There was for instance Mr. Joseph Robert Hcnites, former field representative for V.1.S.TA under the direction of the (Center for Community Action Services, an agency funded by O.E.O. through the University of New Mexico. Before the raid on the (Courthouse, and after when Castroitc gueriilla leader Reies Tijerina was a fugitive from the law Bcnites served as an intermediary between the Alianza and the world. Indeed, he set up a diversionary telephone relay system, by means of which Tijerina could send and receive messages. It was Bcnites who arranged the meeting between Knowlton and Tijerina. Robert Benites went along, as did Peter Nabokov of Santa Fes New Mexican. Benites left the state ahead of the Attorney General's report. He is now sales manager for television Channel in Phoenix. Twenty-On- e Also in the University group, says the report, arc Eugene Hill, a field representative and training officer for V.I.S.T.A., and his protege, Tom Sinclair, who have a reputation of fomenting ethnic strife among, citizens in whatever community they have been assigned in their official capacities. The apparent adeptness with which Hill and Sinclair have been able to destroy long existent good race relations in the communities mentioned below is absolutely uncanny. These two are credited with the unrest in Loving. New Mexico during the Fall of 1966. Tom Sinclair and Louis Juarez, also of the University C.CA.S. group, completely destroyed the Headstart program in Artesia, Eddy County. For instance, on March 23, 1967, Superintendent L. R. Westfall, of the Artesia Public Schouls, wrote as follows to Dr. Tom L. Popcjoy, President of the University of New Mexico: Page 7 The UTAH INDEPENDENT - ticc says was also illegal. Exactly why Observe. Enter the streets and begin the fighting, says Knowlton. The questions of course arise: Is he Knowltons presence still unclear, but as was necessary is you may recall he is one of the few gringos Tijerina trusts, and immediately went north into the mountains where they met, while guerrilla leader Tijerina was still a fugitive from the law. The Professor is now being investigated by his employer, the University of Texas. Knowlton first met Tijerina in 1964, he recently told the El Paso Times. I didnt know anything about Tijerina at that time and I asked about him through friends who had contact with FJ3.I. and state authorities. The F.BJ. and state gave him a clean bill of health. Which F.B.I. Knowlton is talking about, I do not know, but the one run by J. Edgar Hoover has in its files the rap sheet for Tijerina you see reproduced here. What sort of man is Clark S. Knowlton? Like Guzmin, he talks much about poverty, as he did in answer to my present tion of Reies Tijerina's extensive Communist associations, when we debated the matter in El Paso on November third of last year. But on June 11, 1966, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, he told the annual meeting of "the G.I. Forum, another organization : The majority of the n or organizations are composed of midn n dle class or people who have, made it economically and socially. Their members are small businessmen, professional s leadership that the need. They are or the spiritual kin of the patrons and jefe politicos who were used as tools by the to rob and exploit the n n and the in people past. So when like all other Americans, use their freedom to create prosperity and enjoy their lives, Knowlton who claims to hate poverty doesn't like it. He insults them. He Latin-Ameri-c- Mcxirnn-America- n an Spanish-Amcri-ca- Mexican-America- Spanish-Amcrica- Spanish-American- Mexican-America- Anglo-American- s Mexican-America- Spanish-America- Latin-American- s, people, government employees, school leaders, and political leaders who have secured at least a high school education and now usually a college degree. They are proud of the fact that they have learned English fairly well. . , . " This of course is true, and you would imagine, would you not, that a man who continually yapped about poverty would be thoroughly delighted. Knowlton, on the contrary, is very upset. . . . They will not protest," he complains. They will not demonstrate. They will not picket. They will not provide the harsh, resolute, firm, united says they should picket and demonstrate instead, and provide fellow Latins with harsh leadership. In short, he is trying to create the problem he claims to be against. In that same speech, he told the G.I. Forum: . . . The lesson of the Negro struggle is: no minority group in the United States can expect to obtain justice unless it is willing to fight for it. No minority group can obtain much federal assistance unless it can direct the harsh light of publicity upon the unfortunate conditions in the which it lives. Therefore, n n and Mexican-America- Spanish-America- associations become must militant. They must be willing to spend many long months in organizing and in preparing for the No one conflicts that lie ahead. will open the fight unless the members of the G.I. Forum are willing to enter the streets and begin the fight- ... ing. . -- a Communist? Has he signed a Communist Party card? And the answer of course is: What's the difference? Who cares whether he has or has not signed some unimportant card? What is important as we see from his own mouth is that he is trying to divide one group of Americans gainst another, trying to create a problem they can complain about and urging them to enter the streets and begin the fighting. This is the man you paid to have transported to Tijerina. The industry in New Mexico is the usual morass of mysterious programs. Indeed, it is so confusing says the report of Attorney General Witt: anti-povert- y" . . . Had the O.E.O. office in Washington set about intentionally to devise a plan to confuse anyone looking at hoiv O.E.O. programs operate and are funded, it could not have done a better job than it has. . . . There is for instance a federally funded outfit called H.E.L.P (Home Education Livelihood Program), which r has centers throughout the state. On June 10, 1967, Tijerina was arrested in Bernalillo, along with Uval-d- o Velasquez, who was the driver of his his car and a H.E.L.P. employee salary paid by the federal government. Mr. Pacomio Ortega is Director of H.E.L.P activities at Anton Chico. He and other local HELPers are also orfor Reies ganizers and Tijerina. In fact. Mr. Ortega has insisted that all participants in his H.F.L.P. also be Alianza members. And he has established a H.E.L.P store which competes with local merchants. Again, supported by Lyndon Johnsons war on poverty. His superior, Mr. Robert Vigil, H.E.LP. Area Director in Las Vegas, New Mexico, has advised Latins to infiltrate all organizations and agitate against the status quo. Courtesy of the war on poverty." And on June 12, 1967, Alex Mercure, State Director of the federally funded H.E.L.P, told a House Subcommittee in Washington that an armed revolution by might spread across the Southwest. He explained, as you will recall, that the people in northern New Mexico are as desperate, demoralized and hostile as the poor in Los Angeles and other urban ghettos. The federal poverty warrior insinuated that he soon might be teaching them how to organize picket lines. Then there are the Volunteers In Service To America. Many, many complaints were received by this office about the conduct of V.I.S.TA personnel throughout the State, says the Attorney General's report. Most of this criticism appears, after investigation, to be justified. . . . They arc by far the most militant group of O.E.O. personnel in New Mexico today. A conversation with a V.I.S.TA. Volunteer leads one to believe that their sole purpose is to overthrow or disrupt the power structure' or 'establishment' of a community, as they constantly refer to taken the word it. They seem to hawar in the phrase W .ir on Poverty far too literally." It seems these federal poverty warriors also get involved in partisan politics. In Socorro County during the last general election, for instance, they established political headquarters at the Val Verde Hotel and caused the defeat fifty-fou- fund-raise- Spanish-America- rs ns Spanish-speakin- g This letter it not intended in a critical manner, but merely as an attempt to discover to uhom individuals like Tom Sinclair are answer-abl- e uhen they come into a com- m unity and disrupt and agitate established community institutions and groups who have narked together harmoniously through the yean. .Mr. Sinclair can leave after be athieves . his particular aims, while the rest of us still live and work in this com- Part time - ' c 29S-444- Sin- clairs associate. And finally there are the local Community Action Programs (CAP.) throughout the state. In its funding application the State Office of Economic Opportunity explained that this office sees the necessity of developing pressure groups within the poor who are able to challenge administrative procedures and practices which may work to the detriment of the poor, and may be, in fact, even in conflict of state and federal policy." Observe. Pressure groups to be run with your money courtesy of the war on poverty." In other words, you arc being asked to pay to have yourself pressured. And that's exactly the way it is working. For instance, the President of the Five a Month your choice. . ... Bruts 295-909- 5 Service - Polets 1545 So. Main St. BQUntjful, Utah When you "seek New Phillips Radials with 40,000 Mile Guarbntee for appointment and information 9 call Mr. Johnsen at X mm pmumAf" mgmmt Oibiit I. VdUjN. . ... the best books," that is Bookstore Quality 71 West 3rd South Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 7:30 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. 487-587- war QUALITY. 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Proving Grounds Computer Math. Assist to Col. Zornig (Aerial bomb-sigThen there is a CA.P. called the Detectors). Formerly CP orCounty Economic ganizer under alias Lance Clark. Opportunity Board, an employee of which is Gilbert B. Vallejos, of 1313 And there is a lady in Taos named Marble N.W, Albuquerque. On OctoLucille Corinne (Rinnie Templeton), ber 17, 1967, Vallejos ordered three hunwho worked for Craig Vincent, went dred bumper stickers from the Modern to Communist Cuba and returned. I don't know yet whether she brought Printing Company in Albuquerque, and cash he for when them in paid picked anything back. them up three days later in time for Thi Director of the State Office of Tijerinas convention, where they decoEconomic Opportunity is of course Mr. rated some cars.. Robert G. Garcia. It was Garda, as you You see a photograph of one of them will recall, who on the advice of Govon the next page. "Los de Abajo," for ernor Cargo's agents from the the benefit of you gringos, means those Studies Foundation, sent a below, or the underground." state plane to El Paso for Professor You will remember that at the conClark Knowlton. It was Garcia 'who, vention, Ramon Tijerina, too, said that along with these agents, demanded that Guevara is alive and in Tierra Amarilla. Cargo drop all charges against the terAnd there is the federally financed rorists and pull out the Guard. It was Action in Taos, Program Community Garda who formed and headed the a member of the board of which is a Citizens Association for Human Rights, gentleman named Craig Vincent. Vinto raise funds for the defense of Reies cent runs the famous San Cristobal Tijerina, who was charged with crimes Valley Ranch, about twenty miles north by the government of which Garda is of Taos, in the heart of the territory a member. Tijerina is now terrorizing. On March Indeed, the Attorney Generals re17. 1950, at a meeting in Denver, the disport cites a recent United Press Communist Party decided to run the which Garda has patch, according to ranch for. its own benefit. The owner law somethe told a church group that of record is Mrs. Vincent, who precircumvented. times needs to be viously was married to Henry K. Wells, Whether by inadvertence or pura teacher at the Jefferson School of Sopose, and the evidence leads this office cial Science in New York for years to believe the latter," says the report, the most important Communist trainFather Garcias actions were at exact ing school. cross purposes with law enforcement On June 12 1953, Craig Vincent, offidals purpose in attempting to capunder oath before the Senate Subcomture and bring to justice Reies Lopez mittee on Internal Security, refused to Tijerina and his followers." deny that he and his wife are CommuAnd finally there is Russell R. Benenists. dict, a fascinating gent wi know little You will remember a gentleman jibout. It seems that on June 9, 1967, named Corky Gonzales, who heads the Benedict talked on the telephone with poverty war's Crusade for Justice in Clark Knowlton and then wrote to him I Denver, has issued a call for armed revoin pirt as follows: lution and is a close associate of Reies Tijerina's. And you may recall that in Your suggested strategy for the the earlier article I said wc didn't yet group meets with my complete conknow where Gonzales was trained. currence. Given a little time.it may It now develops that when he comes be possible to devise a fomtula for down from Colorado, Gonzales visits Tijerina to return with his lieutenants Craig Vincent at the San Cristobal Valto .he inevitable legal denouement, ley Ranch. but with some sort of arrangement Another interesting guest at the San which will allow the authorities to Cristobal Valley Ranch and an old save face, but still not throw the is a Washfriend of Craig Vincents traigbl criminal book at the shootington, D.C, attorney named David ers. As I menti ned, there may be at Rein, partner in the firm of Forer and least rhetorical legal justifications Rein. Rein has some interesting clients. which the defendants may be able to They include Communist Harriet Moncite to take - the straight criminal roe Gclfjnd, Communist Irving Potash, sting out of their actions at T.A. Communist spy Victor Pcrlo, CommuCourthouse. nist spy Nathan Gregory .ulvermaster. Daily Worker editor James E. Jackson Observe. Knowlton is apparently sugJr, Communist official Benjamin J. gesting strategy for Tijerina. He and Davis Jr, Eugene Dennis, late head of Benedict are trying u defend him. For the Communist Party and Gus Hall, instance, says Benedict, there may be present head of the Communist Party. some justifications for the Alianzas In fact Rein was a house guest of the which as actions at the Courthouse Vincents this past September, when he included remember will critically you had a conference with still another kidofficers and two police wounding client a gent named Reies Tijerina two hostages. napping who gave him $.300 to finance the preBenedict is apparently an old. war his sentation of case to the United Nations. Continued On Page 8 State Inspection Discover mmd Socio-Economi- On March 29, 1967, Democratic National Committeeman T. E. Brown Sr. wrote as follows to Senator Joseph M. Montoya: During my 27 years of residing in this community, I have never seen as much hate and animosity towards their fellow Americans as Mr. Sinclair has generated in this a immunity. You will remember Robert Aragon and Hector Burgos, of the Studies Foundation. On June second, the morning after they arrived, thev called 7 in Albuquerque,. which is listed to Eugene Hill, kMr lUm kmh in Tierra Amarillo ht Mr. Sinclair's actions. Socio-Economi- and Hiding Caitrwta munity and attempt to repair the harm that hat mulled becaute of Earn $85 to $195 3 evenings a week t f : i r . i t c |