Word: sds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community work meshed nicely with her SDS activity. The radical organization was becoming in creasingly involved in criticizing Harvard's role in Cambridge, and Gill, many observers say, served as SDS's primary link with the area outside Harvard Yard...
...scene go so far as to trace to Gill one of the six demands of the 1969 University Hall takeover and the ensuing strike--that Harvard cease its alleged expansion in Cambridge and Roxbury. This seems a bit far-fetched, but Gill undoubtedly had some influence on the SDS community policy...
...rate, Gill became less visible after SDS acrimoniously split into two factions at its June 1969 national converntion. She said the FBI directed her to "oscillate between" the two Harvard factions, but she found the fluctuation between the two groups difficult...
...SDS has never been on the government's list of 'subversive' organizations, so the supposed rationale for spying on it is not present. The chilling effect of domestic government surveillance, now prominent with the unravelling revelations in the Watergate 'caper,' hardly needs documentation. FBI interference in Harvard's affairs, confirmed in the case of Dean Whitlock's secretary, may pale into insignificance beside electronic eavesdropping in presidential campaigns, but it is no less excusable...
...marvels at how the FBI projects its own image onto that of its enemies, assuming that because it plays sneaky, they must also. J. Edgar Hoover himself could have appeared at a Harvard SDS meeting and gleaned as much useful information as Gill obtained. Her work was probably at best a minor nuisance to SDS, probably not worth the $50 the FBI allegedly tossed her every now and then. They surely could have invested their money more wisely...