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Show Page 8 The UTAH INDEPENDENT May 19, 1972 Terrorists Supported by "War on Poverty Continued From Page 7 on poverty" warhorsc. For instance, he tells Knowlton: I have already pointed Alex Mcrcuri sic that it he is out adroit he may be able to parlay the present trouble into some special grant funds. . . Mercuie as you will recall is State Director of the war on povertys" H.E.L.P., warns of the possibility of aimed revolution, and insinuates he is going to organize picketing. Notice how handy the present trouble is for trying to promote still more funds from the war on poverty." On June 15, 1967, Know! ton wrote a Dear Tom letter to Tom Sinclair at O.E.O. in Santa Fe, which you see reproduced here. You will remember Sinclair as the V.I.S.T.A. agitator whose ability to incite animosity the Attorney (General calls absolutely uncanny." Observe that Benedict, whom Knowlton introduces, not only has been a war on poverty" employee, but is sympathetic" to many Alianza goals, and in fact has a contract with Ramparts to do an article on the affair, which, says Knowlton. can do a great deal to assist us." So Knowlton and Benedict are acting in effect as Tijerinas press agents. Observe Knowlton's recommendation that Sinclair pass Benedict on to Joe Benitcs, the federal V.I.S.T.A. agent who arranged the telephone relay system for Tijerina while he was at large. u , anti-povert- y" And observe Knowltons warning to avoid the enemy of them all: the New Mexico State Police. Rather unusual advice from a college professor, is it not? Benedict apparently was passed on as Had dinner with Joe recommended: Benitez sic, arid will drive down with him tomorrow for the arraignment," he tells Knowlton in a letter of June nineteenth. Then may go looking for Christobal sic, for no good reason 1 except that have to get some topical material for Ramparts that somebody else doesn't have. Ramparts doesnt seem to scare anybody up here, by the way, and the cops and robbers stuff seems to be entirely diminished. 1 can smell a tail two miles away, and things in Santa Fc." are relaxed And his trip apparently was a huge success. While avoiding the police as Knowlton recommended, Benedict apparently took time out from his proposed article for Ramparts to help prepare a request for more ,Aor.cy for the area. In fact, be spent J7.68 to mail three copies of the proposal to Washington, for which he was reimbursed by Robert Cl. Garcia. "My impression is, he told Knowlton in the June nineteenth letter, "that those concerned are afraid that unless the paper is in the works right away, things will axil down and somebody at the Shriver level or above will decide that money is not needed in N.M." Observe once again how hane.; K is simply docs a little .ii"! the federal money starts shouting, to flow. Indeed, the raid on the Courthouse was apparently worth S5.4 million. which is what the scheme Benedict hcled prepare asked for. It was the Sangrc dc Cristo tri county Community Action Program proposal for Rio Arriba. Tam, and Mora counties which Craig Vincent, who refuses to anti-povert- 1 1 a Tijerinas. On June 6, 19o7, Antonio Tinajero was indeed in Albuquerque. There he swear he isnt a Connminist, and is a incmlxr of the board of the Tam ( .A.P., was probably very glad to hear. The scheme proposed that more than half the $5.4 million be spent for consultants and salaries, including $25.(XX) for the Director; that $40,000 be spent and for an airplane thats right that free legal aid be supplied to those seeking titles to land grants. Now of course, it is perfectly obvious that enemies of America are trying to destroy it using our own money by way of the program, and that this is happening not only in New Mexico, but around the country from Newark to Nashville. (Sec Americas'. Opinion, February, 1968.) But that doesnt necessarily, prove that this is the purpose of the entire war on poverty. If it did, it would mean that the people who control our government are trying to make a revolution, wouldn't it? So couldn't it mean only that some bugs have gotten into a good can of worms? Couldn't it be that the idea is sound even though the practice sometimes isn't that although Marxists have infiltrated various local agencies, the headquarters in Washington which finances them is jierfectlv all right? Antonin G Tinajero is a member of the civil rights division of the national directorate of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. You will recall that Tinajero was one of the O.E.O. agents who somehow surfaced in northern New Mexico immediately after the raid. Jim Bover reports (Albuthat querque Tribune, June 7, Walter Robbins, Deputy Assistant Director of O.E.O. for civil rights in Wash inglnn, told him Tinajero represents O.E.O., but that his visit isnt particularly in connection with this incident." Tinajero, said Robbins, is very familiar with problems in New Mexico, which is "one of the reasons we have him there." In a letter for the record on June 14, 1967, Tinajero told his superior. Dr. Maurice A. Dawkins, that he just hav pened to be in Albuquerque on June sixth, when he first learned of the raid on the (Courthouse, and since he was already in the area, thought he would nose around. How, on the contrary, did Tinajero really happen to turn up? It seems that on the morning of June 5 1967 the morning of the raid O.E.O.'s Antonio G. Tinajero got two calls at his home at 701 Beacon Street, Silver Spring. Maryland, where his telephone number was anti-povert- 17) long-distan- HE The calls were made by Mr. Santiago Anaya, from his home at 21.15 San Ygnacio Road, S.W., Albuquerque, where his telephone number is 242-791- 6. Santiago Anaya is of course the Alianza's Vice Pxident. So, that afternoon, Alianza terrorists arc SLiicdulcd to raid the Courthouse and that morning Alianza Vice President Anay. is talking on the telephone with an O.E.O. official in Washington. Signs of coordination begin to emerge, dont they ? ideed, Tinajero was present and spoke at the first Alianza convention, on September 21, 1963, at Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque. Since that year, in .'.ct, he has been a close advisor of Castroite terrors Rcics ! Utah Manufactured No Residue Bio No Pollution degradable Organic Cleaners Laundry Bath 50 lbs., $15.50 (also in smaller quantities) $2.65 apparently picked up V.I.S.T.A. agitators Louis Juarez and Tom Sinclair the man to whom Knowlton delivered Benedict and warned to avoid the police because that night the three of them stayed in room 243 of the Desert Inn in Santa Fe. As befits an official from Washing-ton- , D.C., Tinajero is apparently a big spender. He paid the bill of $21.84 with a check, but his check unfortunately bounced. Remember, were dealing with poor people. And here, too, as everywhere else in the affair, we find the telltale paw prints of Governor David F. Cargo. Cargo gave Tinajero a confidential tion to meet with Tijerina, then still a fugitive from the law. You see that authorization reproduced here. Observe that the meeting is apparently part of Cargo's efforts to maintain law and order in New Mexico, which is nice to hear. Cargo is the same man who during his campaign for Governor appeared before an Alianza meeting and pledged his support. Now, ask yourself: Why was Tina-jeropresence so important? What part did he play? Well, he represents the civil rights " division of O.E.O., does he not. Indeed, we now know that from Santa Fe he went north, into the Tierra Amarilla-Cunjiloat a, where he began lu talk to residents about the horrible civil rights violation, an outright fraud according to which the incredibly brutal State Police allegedly held the wives and families of the terrorists in a cow pen" on the night of the raid and even refused to let them the truth about which I a toilet told, as you will recall, in my earlier article on the affair. So the purpose of this war on poverty" official from Washington was api ircntly to help manutacture the fraud which would show the world the horrible police brutality" and economic oppression" under which these pour eople are forced to live. And the question fairly arises: Was the raid on the Courthouse part of a coordinated scheme to create publicity? You will remember that on June 1 1, the Street 1966, ('lark Knowlton told the G.I. Forum: . . . No Fighter minority group can obtain much federal assistance unless it can direct the harsh light of publicity upon the unfortunate conditions in which it lives. . . . In fact, was the terrorist guerrilla raid on the Courthouse part of a coordinated scheme to get that federal assistance? which is helping to destroy our country just as did Lenins Committees pf the Poor in Russia? In June, 1967, only a few days after the raid anti the civil rights violation had revealed all this horrible oppression, Lyndon Johnson established a Cabinet-leve- l Committee on Affairs, allegedly to solve" the business. The name Lyndon Johnson may be familiar. He is the man who explained (Sew Yorl( Times, October 2. 1964) his w.ti on poverty" theory as follows: 's n - Mexican-Amcrica- The ancient n n met of mankind di.teate. intolerance, illiteracy and are not alua) going to ignorance There it going to he a revoprevail. lution. There it going to he a rising up and a throning off of tbeie chi: i,. If a peaceful improvement is in. , able, if a peaceful revolution it not pottible, a violent ai)mtment it inevitable. will go the to Cuba with request." But most revealing is the list of exis going to be a revolution, he says solutions to the in other words, a complete change. One perts" who conference. They problem at Johnsons way nr another were going to get it. included Louis Juarez, for instance, And the purpose of Johnson's war who as you will recall is one of the on poverty is to make that revolution V.I.S.T.A. agitators who, along with that complete change. The change Tom Sinclair, helped create animosity would be peaceful," of course like an in Artcsia. embezzlement. There was Robert G. Garcia, Director less a than 1967, October On of the New Mexico Office of Economic week after the Alianza convention at bewhich Gerry Noll called for the deOpportunity, who as we have seen Reies struction tif the United States, Johngan raising funds for Castroite sons new committee sponsored the Tijerina and demanded that all charges on (inference against the terrorist hr dropped. Affairs in El Paso. While There was Ralph Guzman, Governor the himself was Johnson busy giving Cargos expert," who says the Texas Chamizal section of the city to the Rangers are a gestapo and that admiraMexican government, the Conference tion for Stokcly Carmichael is conwas opened by his fellow revolutionist sistent with moderation. Hubert Horatio Humphrey, who told And of course there was Clark S. it for instance that the average Knowlton, Tijerina's friend and confisuffers historic injustices bethr man who tells dant cause his forefathers were driven from to enter the streets and begin the their Spanish and Mexican land grants fighting." which Castroite Reies Tijerina was Now, at Johnsons conference, Proof course very glad to hear. fessor Knowlton said, as we read in the El Paso Herald-Pos- t (October 28, 1967) : We have seen great leaders emerge," of alienation, abscesses of The poisonous said Hubert. One of those is a man unselfish dedication and personal cour- . rejection, and poverty cannot be eliminated until land claimed by Southwestage who has aroused the conscience of ern Mexican Americans is returned to this nation: Cesar Chavez." heads them. If they are not, the slide towards Y .I will recall that Chjvez rural violence cannot K- halted." the N.F.W.A. (National Farm Worke.s Observe. The only way to avoid Association); is running the Communist attempt to control the predomiguerrilla warfare, says Knowlton in effect, is to hand 100 million acres of the nantly Latin agricultural workers in United States to Reies Tijerina. Delano, California, and in the Rio Grande valley of Texas; was trained As most of the land lost by the vilby Marxist revolutionist Saul Alinsky; lages was grazing md timlni lands and. on June 15, 1966. was guest of minimal village taken from the honor at a dinner sponsored by the lands, says Knowliun. the returned lands should be added to the communal Crusade for Justice, headed by his good lands that remain. It is of paramount friend (xnky Gonzales who as you will remember is a close associate of importance for the welfare of the Reies Tijerina's, a regular visitor at the Spanish American mas that title to the land should be vesied in the village as San Cristobal Valley Ranch, and a land owning entity and not in inof advocate a armed revolution. perennial I wanted to meet his dividuals or the land will be ultimately group, says lost again. Chavez, reports Bartcll Nybcrg (DenAs the communal tradition is far ver Rost, June 16, 1966), which is vital to our movement in the Southwest, to stronger in the villages than the idea of offer whatever assistance I could and individualism, the appropriate government agencies s! uld encourage and thank them for their support." assist the villages to develop producer Humphrey was supported hv pickets and consumer I cooperatives. of course. dont know whether the & . what Knowtton apparently propickets were trained by Alex Mcrcure, the thing Mao but the signs they carried read, Today poses is the commune has China. on ReTomorrow We We IX'monstratc imjwsed like would with all the stress to volt. Indeed, the Tijerina gang apcommand that at time is my power parently pui'ieipated in a rival conthe Professor added. out." The Sacred of the ference. in the gymnasium running land issue has reached a crisis point If I lean school in South El' Paso, held it is not resolved soon Spanish Ameriallegedly because the poor" were not can desperation will find an outlet in adequately represented at Johnson's. violence. of the Bert Corona, of there And finally there was our old Iriend Political Association, was Antonio (I. Tinajero, Tijerina's advisor, course. You will remember that less the O.E.O. otficial consulted by Alianza than a week before, at Tijerina's convention in Albuquerque, Corona Vice Picsident Santiago An.iva on the claimed California and Arizona, hailed morning of the raid. Indeed. Tinajero the cuiii-usituation in (Communist not only particiated in Johnson's conference. but apiarently was luck and Cuba, and recommended the formation of revolutionary cadres. lorth lietvveen it and Tijciina's. Me exH rx Tijerinas good friend (airkv plained. says Tom Bryan (El Paso Gonzales was there and ealled as usual limes, (XioIh.1 27. 19t7) that as a for revolution, says Tom Bryan (El Paso former El Pasoan I was very pleased to see the euple Ironi South El Paso Times, (Xtober 28, 1967). You will remember that Gonzales is speaking out on their problems." vital io our movement in the SouthWhat vv.in happening in short was Chavez the man that the eople at Johnson's conference west," says applauded by Hubert Humphrey. discussing "solutions." were the very And Tijerina himself, writes Bryan, people who are causing the trouble. said the Latins in this country are he truth in fact is that Reies Tijerina anil (dark Knowlton, and so on ready to fight for their land and their yes. and Lyndon Johnson, too (he sas so) rights, and this can he a wet (bloody), or dry fight." are all part ol the same oxration. 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