Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steve Soliah, and his sisters Kathleen and Josephine. All three had been active and apparently nonviolent leftists. In 1974 Kathleen addressed a rally of radicals in Berkeley that was attended by Sara Moore. But the Soliahs have turned out to be members of the violent underground, and now the FBI is hunting Kathleen, who was accompanied in flight by Josephine, for questioning about Patty. Asks a bewildered police official: "How do you know when someone like them has gone over the edge from being merely a radical dissident to being an urban guerrilla willing to commit illegal acts? When...
State and federal law-enforcement officials admit that they know little about California's revolutionary underground. Charles Bates, chief of the San Francisco FBI office, points out that the groups are small, tightly knit, deeply suspicious of strangers, and thus virtually impossible to infiltrate...
What is known is that the groups are growing increasingly violent. FBI officials suspect that radicals have committed some of the state's recent unsolved murders. Among these is the slaying of Wilbert ("Popeye") Jackson, a black activist who the FBI believes was killed because radicals suspected-incorrectly-that he was a squealer. Last year the radicals claimed responsibility for 19 bombings in California; so far this year they have...
Probably an offshoot of the New World Liberation Front, with a membership of unknown size, the "army" has claimed "credit" for three bombings since March of this year, including that of a building in Berkeley that houses FBI offices...
...radicals collect welfare payments and food stamps. Their time is largely spent shoplifting food and other necessities, stealing purses, cashing forged checks, searching for new hideouts and plotting. "It's a tough, dirty life," says Larry D. Grathwohl, 27, a San Francisco area resident who is the only FBI informant known to have successfully penetrated the Weather Underground. Although his experiences took place from November 1969 until April 1970, law officials believe that they still accurately reflect underground life in California and elsewhere. Last week TIME Correspondent John Austin interviewed Grathwohl. His report...