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...remembered as a quiet man, serious, intense, one to be trusted. He was, after all, a friend of Father Philip Berrigan's-a close friend, he would add. True, there was something in his attitude, a superficiality, that caused some to question him. But whenever doubts were raised, those close to Berrigan would brush them aside. Their trust in Boyd F. Douglas was implicit. It was also misplaced; he is the informer upon whose testimony the Government's conspiracy charges against Berrigan and five other defendants depend heavily (TIME cover...
...Berrigan found a curious ally in Douglas, 32, a fellow prisoner at the Lewisburg, Pa., penitentiary.* The two met last year after Berrigan was sent to Lewisburg. Berrigan was anxious to find a way to smuggle his writings and correspondence out of prison; Douglas, one of the few prisoners permitted out during the day-to study at nearby Bucknell University-often carried messages from the inmates with...
Outside Lifeline. After Berrigan approached Douglas to sound him out on acting as a messenger, the two became friends and spent hours together discussing the war. From there, it was just a short jump until Douglas became Berrigan's lifeline to the outside. He delivered messages to Sister Elizabeth McAlister, another defendant, who visited friends at Bucknell when she came to see the priest, and transmitted her replies...
...likely that it was through Sister Elizabeth that Douglas struck up friendships with other radical Catholics and members of the peace movement, including Father Joseph Wenderoth, Anthony Scoblick and Father Neil McLaughlin-all indicted with Berrigan...
Possibly Douglas was a Government plant from the beginning. Indeed, in the manner of a Tommy the Traveler, he let it be known that he was a demolition expert . . . "knowledge that might come in handy." More likely, he was discovered carrying Berrigan's letters outside the prison-a federal offense -and threatened with prosecution if he did not cooperate. After he was confronted by Sister Elizabeth and accused of being the leak, he was taken into protective custody...