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they contacted three other stu
dents, in search of the same
kind of information. Two, they
said, had been noncommital, one
had said yes.
As the meeting ended, the
agents gave the person a phone
number to call if he wanted
to reach them. The number vjas
later found to be that of the
Newark office of the FBI.
Since the encounter, Targum
has contacted and confirmed
FBI contacts Vi/ith the non corn-
mi tal students. In the past,
at least three additional stu
dents have been contacted. They
include Glenn Tecker and Roger
Kranz, both of whom were invol
ved in the ’’Yippie offensive*'
of last spring.
According to Tecker, two per
sons who ar first refused to
identify themselves visited
hisapartment while he was away.
A friend of Tecker's wife, v^ho
answered the door, reported
that one of the men had waited
at the rear door while the other
rang the bell, ^'hen she answered
the man at the rear joined his j
partner. They asked where Tecker
was and was and i/hether he would
be expected later ihe day. She
said she didn't know and asked
again who they v>;ere and what they
wanted. One of the men finally
identified himself as Mr. Ste
wart. The other people contactec
confirmed that Mr. Stewart v^^zs
one of the agents who had dealt
W'ith them.
The next day the men returned
at 9a.m. and again, Tecker was
out. This time, according to
Tecker's wife, one of the men
identified himself as Mr. Ste
wart of the New Brunswick office
of the FBI. She asked what
they wanted from her husband,
and Ste\;art replied that it
was a complex matter that they
would .like to speak to him about
and that they vjanted to see him
in person.
+ s time for
Vi '^scker was waiting
reporters and a
appointed
TWafr* nobody showed,
a however, that
bv^wwa car had passed
by the aprtment four to six
tfZl several
Neither Tecker
since has been contacted
• ^^'^tacted reported
similar meetings with the agents,
who alxcays travelled togethi??
tony Mr,URO
DAILY TARGUM
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LEFCOURT interview
MABISON (CPS)—Recently
University of lisconsin DAILY
CA.TDINAL associate Editor
Peter Greenberg interviewed
Black Panther defense lawyer
Gerald Lefcourt in his New York
law offices. Lefcourt is one
of five laivyers presently de
fending twenty-one Black Pan
thers in a trial stemming from
a thirty count indictment of
the Panthers, ranging from con
spiracy to bomb to attempted
murder. Lefcourt began his
legal earner as a Legal Aid
Society lawyer, where he first
became acquainted with the Pan-,
thers. Originally he was a
member of a three-man defense
team v.hich included William
Kuntsler and Lam Weinglass in
the trial of the Chicago eight,
but left the team in April 1969
when the "New York twenty-one"
were indicted and arrested. He
has worked on the case ever since
The following is the transcript
of that interview-;. College
Press Service: When did you
first get involved with the
Panthers?
Lefcourt: My first involve
ment W'ith the Panthers was
buck in August, 196S. I remember