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MORI DocID: 1451843

SECRET

SUBJECT: Foreign Support For Activities Planned to Disrupt
or Harass the Republican National Convention

1. There are only limited indications thus far of
foreign efforts to inspire, support or take advantage of
activities designed to disrupt or harass the National
Convention of the Republican Party in San Diego, 21-23
August 1972.

2. Some American participants at the Soviet-controlled
World Assembly for Peace and Independence of the Peoples of
Indochina, held 11-13 February 1972 in Paris/Versailles,
attempted unsuccessfully to include a call for international
demonstrations to take place at time of the Republican
National Convention. A representative of the San Diego
Convention Coalition (SDCC), one of the domestic action
groups targeting on the Republican Convention, requested
the American Delegations' Steering Committee of the World
Assembly to include a specific call for international
support of activities against the Republican Convention
in their new proposal to the Action Commission of the World
Assembly. This request, however, was dropped as too
divisive by the Steering Committee, despite initial indications that the proposal would be taken to the floor of
the Assembly.

3. John LENNON, a British subject, has provided
financial support to Project "VFSI" which in turn paid
the travel expenses to the World Assembly of a representative
sentationist is tentatively planning to assist in preparations
for disruptive actions at the San Diego Convention.)
Project VFSI is an adjunct to another LENNON-supported project, the Election Year Strategy Information Center (EYSIC),
of which direct New Left protests of which was set up to
National Convention. In Paris Rennie DAVIS is a key leader
to the World Assembly met at least once with officials of
the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam;
it is not known if the Republican National Convention was
discussed.

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