What seems to be redacted from these FBI files are any mention of the Schaefers. 'Gi' and Jill Schaefer were FBI operatives in Miami as well as Tampa and Louisana. They had a 'deep cover' of being Marxist-Leninist-Maoist and Jill use to show off a photograph of her and Chou En Lai on the Great Wall. The FBI gave them money to start' The Red Star Collective' and infiltrate VVAW all over the South. The husband-wife informer team appeared very very straight looking (worker look) and even used their teenaged children as part of their cover. There specialty was planting communistic propaganda in VVAW locations then arrange for clandestine FBI raids at night in both VVAW and other peace groups offices. The Schaefers disappeared and their are rumors that they were later........... exposed as FBI agents
It's normal procedure for FOIA files to redact the names of undercover agents. The Gainesville Eight's defense (led by William Kunstler's law center) tried to use the strategy of accusing FBI informants of "planting communistic propaganda in VVAW locations", etc. In point of fact, they didn't need to plant any propaganda--as one VVAW member at the Kansas City meeting put it when some VVAW members expressed concern that they might face persecution for associating with Communists, "if VVAW was afraid of a 'witch hunt', then they should never have set up the National Office next to the office of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice".