Afro-Asian American Association

The Afro-Asian American Association was listed in the 1971 SDS Annual Report as a main target of surveillance, though no reports mentioning the organisation have been released by the Inquiry. 

HN345 ‘Peter Fredericks’ HN345 'Peter Fredericks' ‘Peter Fredericks’ was the cover name of a former Special Demonstration Squad undercover officer who attempted to infiltrate Black Power organisations and groups campaigning for Bangladeshi independence in 1971. His SDS and Special Branch careers were short; he had left the SDS by the mid-1970s. In the Undercover Policing Inquiry, he is known by the nominal HN345. Full page: HN345 'Peter Fredericks'  was asked whether he infiltrated the group but could not recall it.

There were a number of United States-based groups who ‘brought together people of various Asian ancestries in the United States who protested against racism and US neo-imperialism’ that were active in the 1960s and 1970s. Daryl Joji Maeda, The Asian American Movement, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, 'The Asian American Movement was a social movement for racial justice, most active during the late 1960s through the mid-1970s, which brought together people of various Asian ancestries in the United States who protested against racism and U.S. neo-imperialism, demanded changes in institutions such as colleges and universities, organized workers, and sought to provide social services such as housing, food, and healthcare to poor people.', 9 Jun 2016.