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...Jesuit brother Daniel, 49, both now in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison serving sentences for burning draft records with napalm in May 1968. The plot: a seemingly irrational conspiracy to blow up the heating systems at some five Government sites on Washington's Birthday, 1971, then next day kidnap Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, and hold him hostage until Nixon agreed to speed the war's end in Viet...
...same theory has it that the Government's source of information on the kidnap-bomb plot was a group of non-religious in the circle who became alarmed once discussion turned seriously to use of tougher tactics than those employed in the raid that the Berrigans had led against the draft board at Catonsville, Md. The principal informer was not an infiltrator but an active member of the conspiracy, although not one of those named in last week's indictment. The details of the Kissinger plot were spelled out, astonishingly, in letters and hand-carried messages exchanged among the principal...
...angry statement released through Kunstler: "Thirty-eight years ago, the Nazi Party burnt the Reichstag in order to stampede the German people into supporting a policy of repression at home and militarism abroad. The Government of the U.S.,* for much the same purpose, [has] created a grotesque conspiracy to kidnap a presidential assistant and blow up the heating systems of federal buildings in Washington. The objective is a simple but deadly one: to destroy the peace movement by creating caricatures of those who oppose the war in Southeast Asia...
...death or life of the movement." It could also mean life imprisonment for the defendants, the maximum penalty for conspiracy to kidnap. The trial will doubtless turn into a showcase for the Berrigans' ideas, particularly with Kunstler aiding the defense. Kunstler has already assumed his customary belligerent political stance. "We have to speak to the larger issues," says one alleged coconspirator...
...Harrisburg. Pa., grand jury indicted Berrigan and five others for conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger, Presidential assistant on foreign affairs, and transport him in interstate commerce; conspiring to maliciously destroy U. S. property, specifically, heating systems in buildings in the capital; conspiring to possess dynamite, plastic explosives and detonating cord without registering them under Federal law; and conspiring to transport these explosives in interstate commerce for the purpose of destroying property...