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During her career underground, she came in contact with a wildly disparate set of personalities. The late J. Edgar Hoover, Harvard SDS leadership, conservative publisher William Loeb, Rep. James C. Cleveland R-N.H.) and Dean Whitlock all dealt with her in some...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Gill has acknowledge, however, that she told the FBI that a woman secretary employed by Dean Whitlock was an SDS member, and she accurately located the Cambridge CIA office at 545 Technology Square...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...SDS 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...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Jessie Gill Comes In From the Cold | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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