FBI Yippie Documents Declassified

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 27, 2011 8:20PM

The website Government Attic recently received over 6,600 pages of documents related to the FBI's surveillance of the Youth International Party in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request.

The Yippies, as they were known, were noted for their street theater and political pranks and were largely ignored or denounced by the old guard political left. The high point of the Yippies' theatrics was, of course, the "Festival of Life, a six-day counterculture protest of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. They made statements of dosing the city water supply with LSD and having sex on the lakefront's beaches that legitimately unnerved the populace. And we all know how the Festival of Life turned out for them, right?