A New York State legislative group will begin hearings this week on the activities of neo-Nazi groups, it was announced here today. The hearings, which will be held in New York City, follow the start of a similar inquiry by a joint State Assembly and Senate committee into the activities of the John Birch Society; Two self-proclaimed “fuehrers” of neo-Nazi groups — George Lincoln Rockwall of the American Nazi Party, and James H. Madole of the National Renaissance Party — have been subpoenaed to appear at the hearings.
The committee chairmen, Sen. Irwin Brownstein, and Assemblyman B. L. Podell, both Brooklyn Democrats, are seeking to determine whether the neo-Nazi organizations should be required to file financial reports with the state as legitimate political parties must do. Since they announced the investigation into the John Birch Society earlier this month, both Sen. Brownstein and Assemblyman Podell have been deluged with hate mail and threatening telephone calls, many of the callers identifying themselves as members of neo-Nazi groups.
The previous hearings have been guarded by uniformed state policemen and plainclothes detectives. Many blackshirt and brownshirted members of neo-Nazi groups were among the spectators, but no hostile incidents occurred.
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