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Another memo concerns the impossibility of recovering information which had been destroyed in a raid on a Lansdowne, Pa., draft board. The document-dated November 20-states that a clerical assistant at Local Board 58 in Lansdowne was "unable to forward any background papers regarding [a certain person]." The memo also notes that another draft board located near this person's college had been requested to obtain the missing information from the subject himself, but that thestudent had refused to comply, and that there was no other way to procure the information...
...documents-which are being distributed to newspapers all over the country-represent further results of a raid carried out by an undercover group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate...
...first packet of documents released after the Media, Pa., raid included a memo from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover which urged "immediate" and "discreet" investigations of black student groups, terming them "a definite threat to the nation's stability and security...
...Citizens' Commission apparently plans further releases of documents seized in the Media raid. This week's issue of the Phoenix reported that FBI agents were gathering samples from Xerox machines in the area to determine where the documents were being copied...
...movement, which only really got off the ground last August, turned out to be short-lived. On Dec. 19, six MAR members allegedly assaulted a bank messenger and snatched a strongbox containing $84,000 in U.S. currency. The raid put the police on their tracks. The break in the case finally came when a MAR member named Francisco Parades Ruiz was arrested on a vagrancy charge March 1 and police found a phony passport on him. Under interrogation, Parades Ruiz reportedly informed on the others in exchange for immunity. With his information, police soon arrested 19 more MAR members...