Gill reportedly shoved a Harvard policeman out of the way, pushed open the gates, and led the crowd onto the wide expanse of lawn in front of the residence.

Gill herself recalled her role in the action, but argued that it was legal because she never strayed off public property.

At any rate, Gill became less visible after SDS acrimoniously split into two factions at its June 1969 national converntion. She said the FBI directed her to "oscillate between" the two Harvard factions, but she found the fluctuation between the two groups difficult.

Her grievances with intelligence work were peaking at this time, she said. Coupled with the increasing difficulty she was having garnering information, her complaints that the intelligence agencies were not paying her enough, were not understanding her concern for Cambridge's people, and were doing a "shoddy" job of intelligence gathering, prompted her to abandon her undercover work.

She left Cambridge sometime in the fall of 1970, when the FBI had her moved to New Hampshire, she said.

Then Gill's financial problems began. She said the CIA owed her $350 for the hundreds of phone calls she had made toagency offices over the three years, and she wanted to get paid.

She also appears to have wanted to publicize her exploits, ostansibly to effect changes in the shoddy intelligence gathering operations, but possibly with a growing desire for publicity of her own.

GILL APPROACHED Arthur C. Egan, chief investigative reporter for the Union-Leader, asking for help and lugging with her file cabinets she told him were loaded with the names of activists.

Egan said he listened to her story, but came to distrust her. "She could have taken those names from university telephone books for all I knew," he said.

Egan said he thought the FBI "tossed Gill 50 bucks every now and then," for her services.

After Egan turned her down, Gill approached Carol Morrissey, a Union-Leader correspondent in North Conway, N.H., who was more agreeable. Morrissey, who has since moved to Europe, approached Loeb of Gill's behalf.

"The boss is always willing to help out." Egan explained. "His thinking was that if she was an agent, she should be paid."

Loeb acknowledged that he "had taken the appropriate steps in Washington" to insure that Gill was paid for her work. Asked whether these steps included contacting New Hampshire's two Congressmen, he responded, "I know a great many Congressmen."

Loeb, who said he never met Gill, called her work "very healthy" and "a very good idea."

"In the late 1930s I penetrated the Communist Party on my own," Loeb said. "Anybody that says there is no such thing as the Communist conspiracy is crazy."