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...year ago, a handsome, tense, slender youth known only as "Tommy the Traveler" appeared at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y., and began to preach revolution to anyone who would listen. He claimed to be an S.D.S. organizer, and his principal converts were two freshmen, would-be revolutionaries who were fascinated by his violent rhetoric. To them he taught the uses of the Ml carbine and demonstrated the construction of various types of fire bombs...
...incident probably would have ended there had not angered students seized on the fact that the month before, Tommy had struck Hobart's assistant dean of students, Ted Theismeyer, and threatened a student's life. Soon after a John Doe complaint charging him with harassment was filed. Why, the students now demanded, had the complaint never been served? In an interview broadcast last week on Walter Cronkite's CBS Evening News, Ontario County Sheriff Ray Morrow replied: because he was only doing the job he was hired to do. Morrow defended Tommy's actions as necessary...
...this time, word of Tommy's activities had spread to neighboring universities, and tales of similar exploits began to filter back to Hobart. Tommy the Traveler, it seemed, had been a familiar figure among radicals in upstate New York colleges since...
...presence had been rumored at Cornell, Syracuse University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Alfred University and Keuka College, and, most recently, Hobart. He invariably identified himself as an S.D.S. organizer, and wherever he went, violence seemed to follow. He was also said to have been at the head of the assault force that marched on the South Vietnamese embassy during last fall's demonstrations in Washington. His true identity was uncertain. The harassment complaint listed him either as Thomas M.L.S. Tongyai or Singkata P. Tongyai, 26, of Warrington...
...defensible practice. But what happens to such agents who actually get involved in illegal activities? Tommy's fire-bomb lessons to young, malleable students seem to represent a serious breach of law-enforcement responsibility. The fire-bombing of the Hobart ROTC building might never have happened had Tommy not instigated...