Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoover charged in Senate testimony that Berrigan and members of the East Coast Conspiracy were conspiring to use kidnapping and sabotage to decelerate the war in Southeast Asia...
...Berrigan and four others-the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, former priest Anthony Scoblick, and Eqbal Ahmad, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Public Affairs in Chicago-accused the Government of using the charges to discredit opposition to the Vietnam...
...Philip Berrigan and four of his co-defendants denied yesterday they were part of a Washington bomb conspiracy or a plot to kidnap former Harvard professor Henry A. Kissinger '50, President Nixon's advisor on national security affairs...
Attorney William Kunstler visited Berrigan yesterday at the Federal Correctional Institute in Danbury, Conn., where he is serving a six-year sentence for destroying draft records in Maryland. Afterwards, Kunstler issued a statement by Berrigan and said Berrigan viewed the charges as "a colossal blunder" which the government "has stampeded into" because of accusations of a similar plot made last November by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover...
...Daniel Berrigan was not named as a defendant in the indictment, but was cited as a conspirator along with seven other persons. No charges were filed against the eight co-conspirators...