William Sloane Coffin
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Clergy and Laity Concerned
William Sloane Coffin was named as a founder of the Clergy and Laity Concerned.[1]
Helsinki-Youth Festival/CIA front
July 29-August 6, 1962 the World Youth Festival was held in Helsinki, under the auspices of the Soviet front World Federation of Democratic Youth.
Gloria Steinem was under a CIA contract to recruit participants to infiltrate the communist confab and to fund “liberal” Americans participants in the 450-member U.S. group of pacifists and Communist Party USA activists. It was a futile stunt. Among those whom Steinem recruited through her CIA front, Independent Research Service, were Zbigniew Brzezinski, Barney Frank, Clay Felker, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, attorney Tom Garrity and reporter Robert Kaiser. Among those invited, but not attending were Michael Harrington and Tom Hayden.[2]
SANE/Freeze founding board
The founding board of SANE/Freeze in 1987 included Butch Wing, Jesse Jackson, William Sloane Coffin, Pam Desch, Nativo Lopez, Barbara Shailor, Aubrey McCutcheon, Susana Cepeda.
References
- ↑ Clergy and Laity Concerned, Metro Chicago chapter letterhead, March 22, 1983
- ↑ Comrades—1963 Vietnam and Peace Movement Summary—the Lead