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there is a real question in my mind about what is the ultimate goal in the dimension of this kind of investigation. And I've expressed that I've expressed my concern not only to you, but I've expected to. The Department of Justice is Well, what do you feel?

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Is that ultimate goal, Mr Poole? Well, I think the department obviously feels that the Panthers represent a threat to the security of the United States of formidable dimension. Mr. Pu, do you feel that the black Panthers of being treated, uh, especially as you said a minute

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ago and that they present a particular kind of situation that a black U S. Attorney would not be useful in the investigation? Uh, well, this one wouldn't be, uh, because this one would want to confine himself thio specific evidence of specific federal misdeeds that long as

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you're on that kind of a level, there would be no problem when it comes to taking the sweep of the full range of panthers here and across the country on treating all of this as perhaps, uh, conspiracy against the United States. I have serious reservations because

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I feel that this is a very large extent it ignores or does not appreciate the ghetto. The community problems in which the Panthers, whatever else we may think of, have some part if you strip the rhetoric if you strip the the nonsense talk. If you strip

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the ridiculous Marxist jargon that lately has been espoused by their leaders, you confined a riel feeling in black communities about the Panthers. And when the feeling of that kind exists, you ignore it at your peril. The Panthers may represent of fear in the black community to

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because if they're going to stockpile guns and if they're places, they're gonna be the locus of violence. This is a threat to the whole community in which they are part. But beyond that, there is also something that e think I could sum up by saying that

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there is a feeling in the black community that they do some good