Word: gills
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although these two aspects of her story have been borne out by the facts. Gill has not elborated upon the rest of her story, and the extent to which her role as an informer affected events here in the turbulent days of militant confrontation remains clouded...
...leader from that era said Gill was prominent in the organization and regularly attended SDS meetings and took part in the organization's campaigns, but was never taken seriously. "All our meetings were open, however, and there wasn't an awful lot she could have found out that would have been of much use to the FBI," the SDSer added...
...Gill lost credibility, the SDS member said, because her Mt. Auburn St. Tenants Union turned out to be a paper organization. Other sources, including one of the building's tenants then, have echoed this view, explaining that Gill never lacked energy in her organizing efforts but that the other tenants refrained from participating because they considered her an oddity...
...Gill sees no contradiction between her tenant organizing activities and her work for the FBI and CIA. She favours nonviolent social change, she says, and objected to what she termed the SDS reliance on militant confrontation and its unpatriotic attitudes...
During her tenant organizing efforts. Gill came into contact with Whitlock, who was then serving as President emeritus Nathan M. Pusey's assistant for community affairs. Whitlock remembers her as the sincere but strange "major-domo" for the Mt. Auburn St. building, who brought deteriorating conditions in the building to his attention so that Harvard could take action...