Ron Dellums, U.S. Congressional Representative for the East Bay for 27 years, announced Friday at Laney College that he will run for mayor of Oakland, California. Dellums is best known for his attempts to collaborate with Cuba, the Sandinistas and communist Grenada, possibly passing on American classified intelligence materials to Castro. At one point, a Salvadoran operative working for Cuban intelligence actually set up shop in the congressional offices of Ron Dellums, with the conniving of the Congressman himself. In the Cold War, Dellums was on the side of the enemy. Dellums was a squeeze toy for John Kerry. On February 17, 1968, Dellums delivered the keynote address at a birthday party for Black Panther Minister of Defense Huey Newton, who had been convicted of killing a policeman. The next year, 348 Panthers were arrested for such serious crimes as murder, armed robbery, rape, bank robbery, and burglary. Party leaders openly called for the assassination of President Richard Nixon, and the FBI determined the Panthers to be "the most notorious and dangerous of current militant groups." But the Panthers’ appalling record of violence did not cause Dellums to turn his back on them. During his 1970 campaign for Congress Dellums openly endorsed the Panthers.