Word: hoover
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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...
...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...
...facts sound incredible. They just don't ring true," another professor mused. "I don't see how a conspiracy could conceivably originate in a prison. This almost seems to be a result of Hoover embarrassing the Government last year...
Berrigan and his brother Daniel, also a Roman Catholic priest, were accused of the plot by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover late last year in testimony before a Senate subcommittee. Hoover linked the plot to a move to force the United States to leave Vietnam and to release alleged political prisoners...
...pity poor J. Edgar Hoover. Imagine having to contend with lazy judges, bleeding hearts on parole boards, Black...