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Painstaking Precautions. The Camden raid was carried off with such devastating precision that one defense attorney termed it "not an arrest, but an ambush." Coupled with the arrest of five alleged conspirators in Buffalo, N.Y., it may have broken the spine of the Berrigan-centered segment of the antiwar movement. The Berrigan brothers themselves are in federal prisons awaiting an October trial in Harrisburg, Pa., on charges of conspiring to blow up federal buildings and kidnap Henry Kissinger...
Known as "Quicksilver" among the Berrigan forces, Grady, 46, is an unkempt father of five who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, majored in sociology at Manhattan College and used to sell insurance. But there was nothing disheveled about Grady's anti-Government operations. He watched a Government office or building for months before he sent his crew into action. He charted the flow of traffic and the movements of guards or watchmen around his target. He has used as many as 50 antiwar activists on a single job. He schooled them in techniques of lock...
...knows where the Bronx-born Grady learned the intricacies of his trade (he has no criminal record), but he has been part of the Berrigan movement from the beginning. In April, shortly after Grady began organizing the Camden operation, the FBI began to zero...
...lived modestly in St. Joseph's rectory in the racially mixed Fox-point section of Providence. He was a strong supporter of open housing, fasted in support of Cesar Chavez's grape boycott, and was impressed by the "tremendous witness for peace" made by Philip and Daniel Berrigan. During the South Vietnamese campaign in Laos last February, Kelly declared that it was "scandalous that churchmen are so concerned about abortion and yet have nothing to say about the destruction of human life in Laos." In March, at Newport, R.I., he and 200 others protested the war in Southeast...
...inner conflict of the American Church has curiously been played out in the Berrigans' own lives. Sons of a working-class Irishman whose parents migrated to America to escape the potato famine, the young Berrigans were torn between conflicting aspects of their own background. On the one hand, there was the immigrant's desire to prove himself a loyal American, combined with the Catholic's tendency to play the staunch, conservative counterpart to the renegade, insurgent Protestant tradition in which America was founded. On the other hand is the fact that their father, Tom Berrigan, was a progressive...