to Targum occurred during the first week of classes. The in dividual contacted, who declined to be identified publicly, ap-_ proached a reporter one day, min utes after receiving a_message where he lived that Chief Borden had called while he v/as out. The student returned the call to Chief Borden, and reported afterward that they had set up a specific place and time for a meeting betvjeen himself ahd tw’o agents of the Newark office of the FBI. Bofden had told him that he wanted the two parties to meet at Campus Patrol head- ^ uaters on Bartlett Steet the next day at noon so that he could "deal with them directly." The student also rerorted that when he asked Borden why the FBI wanted to see him in particular, Borden replied, "Fe v/ere talking the other day and your name Came as a reliable person." The next day, the person showed up at CP headquarters at the appointed hour, but iv’as told after waiting a half hour that the FBI agents v»/ere unable to be there. That afternoon, Chief Borden was called to discuss the matter further. The call was placed from the Targum office, and a reporter listened to the con versation on another line, viith the person’s permission. Borden apologi^-ed for the FBI men, saying, "They make their ovm schedules." He then asked the student v^here he could be reached the next day. He said he \ ould make sure the FBI men would contact him then. Borden also said, referring to a previous conversation with the person, that he \jas still checking with his "real estate friends" about an apartment: The two had discussed earler the fact that the person would soon be needing a place to live and was having difficulty finding an aparmtment. According to this individual, Borden had agreed to help in the search. The person also asked Borden v.'hat he thought the FBI agents wanted from him. Borden again said, "I’ll let you deal directly Vvith them" At the second appointed time,- the student a'waited the FBIfs phone call, but instead, the agents arrived at his apartment in person. With a Targum re porter listening from another room, the two atents and the in dividual involved discussed for the first time the nature of the relationship the agents wanted established. The t\'io agents, one dressed in a gold blazer and a pin striped shirt and the other in a gray flannel suit, asked the student a series of questions concerning a wide area of campus life. They asked for information on campus narcotics traffics, on Yippie activites planned for the fall, and on the bombing of the Police Science Institute at the Kilmer campus this spring. He was alsoasked if he knew "22", a Black Panther w-ho frequented the campus during the spring! He denied specific knovv'ledge of any of them, ' Then the agents named fifteen suudents about Vvhom they wanted information. The list included many students involved in Yippie activities and in campus politics. Again he was noncommital about all of the students mentioned. The person then asked how^ he would profit by giving them in formation. The agents told him they v.'Ould pay according to the amount and value of w.hat he told them. They also said that the relationship could end at any time, "You can pull out any time." The aaents also mentioned that

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