Rare Abbie Hoffman "What's so intelligent about the CIA" Pinback Button

VERY RARE
PINBACK BUTTON
ABBIE HOFFMAN and AMY CARTER
 ANTI - CIA RECRUITMENT ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
....WHAT'S SO....
..INTELLIGENT..
................................ABOUT THE........................
.......................................CIA?...............................
The story behind this pin:
At the end of 1986, 50-year-old ABBIE HOFFMAN and 19 years old  AMY CARTER (daughter of President Jimmy Carter), were arrested and charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct for protesting CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.
In early April 1987, their case came to trial in Northampton, Massachusetts.
The prosecution was confident that the jury of six would not be sympathetic to the actions of these "radicals". Attorney Leonard Weinglass,who had defended Hoffman on the Chicago Seven trial in the 1960's, successfully argued that, because the CIA was involved in criminal activity in many places around the world, it prevented it from recruiting on campus.
He asserted a "necessity defense" in saying that the protests were equivalent to trespassing in a burning building to save a life.  They were acquitted of all charges.
Abbie Hoffman contacted Larry Fox before the trial and asked him to make this button for use during the lead-up to the trial and during the trial itself. Abbie distributed them to supporters.
The charges were eventually dismissed. 

(Fox Buttons credit line is on curl) 1 1/2 diameter.
From the collection of LARRY FOX - "The Button Man"
AND signed on the back for me from him.

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist, anarchist, and revolutionary who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies")