Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tutelage, she found herself increasingly attracted to Maoist and Marxist ideas. She attended movies, discussions and seminars, often dragging along her son. Finally, she asked to join Tom's study group, and as an earnest of her sincerity, told Tom about her role as an FBI informant. Tom replied that while he believed her conversion, he would have to take the matter up with his colleagues. She recollected: "I was afraid of Tom's group, and I was afraid of the bureau if they found out I told...
Word of Moore's FBI connection spread through the radical community, and she was ostracized. Whenever she attended meetings, she was surrounded by a circle of empty seats. She sought to counteract her alienation by making a full confession of her past links to the FBI. To reporters, radio interviewers and anyone else who would listen, she would pour forth self-criticism and expound on Marxist and Maoist theories. Whereupon both the FBI and the radicals dropped her entirely. Still longing for the thrills of clandestine work, she cultivated ties with San Francisco police, who in turn...
Moore became fearful that she would be killed either by the FBI or vengeful radicals. "My life is in danger," she would say. "I know how to use a gun because I had military training, but if they want you they can surprise you at any time." She also was suffering more and more from a feeling of isolation, and becoming more and more nervous and overwrought...
...also a former undercover agent. The two are not unrelated. What was I doing there and how did I get here?" So begins a confused attempt by Sara Jane ("Sally") Moore to explain herself to her new radical friends, who had ostracized her after learning of her FBI activity. Last spring she tried to interest California newspapers and radio stations in carrying her story, but she met with no success...
...that follows, one portion that she deleted is enclosed in brackets. Since Moore nurtured the vain hope that the radicals would read her story and readmit her to their ranks, she set down some weird and garbled thoughts about business and economics, and wrote of her adventures as an FBI spy and gradual conversion to radical politics. But the document, though self-serving and not al ways accurate, does provide glimpses of the mental processes that led six months later to her attempt to shoot the President. Excerpts...