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...left. Ever since early 1969--when Attorney General Mitchell used an Illinois grand jury to reopen an investigation of the Chicago "conspiracy", a case which Mitchell's predecessor had judged to be empty and invalid--similar juries across the country, in St. Louis, Seattle, Tucson and, most recently, in Harrisburg, have conducted sweeping investigations into the activities of radical groups and produced the now-familiar "conspiracy" indictments in turn...
...locale and, therefore, the likely circumstances of the trial proceedings. The indictees in the alleged Kissinger-kidnap plot could have been tried appropriately in New York or Danbury or in any other city where "damning" letters originated; of all such places, the Justice Department prosecutors opened their case in Harrisburg, a conservative city with virtually no student population, inhabited mostly by Lutherans who are said to be fiercely anti-Catholic in their prejudices...
...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...
That, more or less, was the substance of the exchanges between Philip and others which recently surfaced along with indictments by the Harrisburg grand jury. The possibility of temporarily kidnapping "someone like" Henry Kissinger was, it now appears, being considered. But the consideration was a painstaking one, one which was riddled with questions like: What does nonviolence mean? How can it be concretely applied? If this action is undertaken, then what next...
...fact, the truly significant import of the indictment is not that the discussion was taking place, because such deliberation is completely justified in terms of individual freedoms and in view of the failure of less drastic measures to end the war. The real message from Harrisburg is the extent to which the government is willing to abrogate even its own measly legal guarantees in order to prevent such discussion from taking place. The tapping of telephones, the surveillance of mail, the use of secret informers to record a discussion and then construe that discussion as a "conspiracy" is ample proof...