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EG: Okay, let's go again. You said that the FBI had you under surveillance before the war.

FS: I have seventy-two pages of FBI indictment.

EG: You got your record? You got your record from the FBI?

FS: A great deal of it has been blotted out. They didn't want me to know who informed on me. But I have to hand it to them, I've talked with Naval Intelligence in Hawaii, FBI here, invariably they have been gentlemen, tolerant people. I don't like their occupation, but they have some good men. Did you know that Aki lectured the captain of a submarine in Seattle? During Seafair there was a naval, several naval vessels in the harbor. One was a submarine, and Aki was with others picketing this submarine, kayaks alongside, and they were driven away, I think actually by fire hoses. And then Norm Rice gave a dinner on the dock for the crew of this submarine, and he invited Aki. And so where she had been picketing a few hours earlier, she was sitting beside the captain of the submarine and lecturing him on peace. Of course, he maintained that his mission was a peaceful mission. He wasn't to make war, he was to prevent war and all this sort of thing. She didn't convince him at all, of course, of anything, but he listened to her. And she had the nerve to say, "We don't like you. We like you, but we don't like your business." Not many people would have done that.

EG: No, no.

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