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Foreign support for violent subversive activities in the United States
'''Tom Hayden''' co-founded [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (the SDS) in the 1960s. After doing some [[civil rights]] work, he drifted left and began to help [[North Vietnam]] win the [[Vietnam War]] (see also [[Chicago Seven Trial]]).
'''Tom Hayden''' co-founded [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (the SDS) in the 1960s. He was married to [[Jane Fonda]] for and later became a [[state senator]] in [[California]]. Hayden was one of four principal initiators of the [[Progressives for Obama]] movement.
== Foreign support for violent subversive activities in the United States ==
In 1970, the House Committee on Internal Security reproduced a June 4, 1968, letter that Hayden had sent to a [[North Vietnam]] official by the name of "Col. Lao" informing him that a "Mr. Robert Greenblatt" was the coordinator of the [[National Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam]] and that he "works closely with myself and [[Dave Dellinger]], and has just returned from [[Hanoi]]." The letter from Hayden was signed, "Good fortune! Victory!"<ref>Subversive Involvement in the Origin, Leadership, and Activities of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam and its Predecessor Organizations. Staff Study by the Committee on Internal Security. House of Representative. Ninety-First Congress. Second Session. 1970, page 12.</ref>
In the words of the chairman, Rep. Richard H. Ichord, the report identified how the New Mobilization Committee had "operated from its inception with significant domestic and international communist support."<ref>Ibid, p vi.</ref>
The report said that a "large percentage" of the delegates to the founding conference of the New Mobilization Committee were "members of the [[Communist Party USA]]; the [[Trotsky]]ist communist [[Socialist Workers Party]]; the [[Young Socialist Alliance]], youth and training section of the SWP; and the Student Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam, an organization controlled by the YSA."
==See also==
*[[Chicago Seven Trial]]
==References==
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