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ACCORDING to the Justice Department, those are the words of Roman Catholic Priest Philip Berrigan in a letter to Sister Elizabeth McAlister about a plan to kidnap Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser. The full letter and another the Government contends was written by Sister Elizabeth to Father Berrigan were released last week as part of new indictments issued against the pair by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pa. The new indictments, replacing ones issued in January, dropped Berrigan's brother Daniel, who is also a priest, from a list of nondefendant co-conspirators...
...jury added charges that the group also conspired to steal and destroy Selective Service records and that some of the members last year had "committed depredations" against draft board offices in Philadelphia and Delaware and had vandalized a draft office in Rochester, N.Y. The original charges of conspiring to kidnap Kissinger and to blow up heating tunnels for Government buildings in Washington were retained...
...letters, if they are authentic, indicate that Sister Elizabeth wrote to Berrigan "in utter confidence" on Aug. 20, 1970, that she had attended a meeting in Connecticut at which a plan "to kidnap -in our terminology make a citizen's arrest of-someone like Henry Kissinger" was discussed. He was picked "because of his influence as policymaker yet sans Cabinet status, he would not be as much protected as one of the bigger wigs," and because "he is a bachelor, which would mean if he were so guarded, he would be anxious to have unguarded moments where he could...
Craven answered that PCPJ organizers had informed student groups in other countries of the proposed demonstrations. Pressed for elaboration, he added that Binh had also been told of the plans for the protest. Scott then leveled the charge that Craven and Gregory had discussed a possible kidnap with Binh-and had decided not to go through with it. At another point in the hearing, Scott said that his Senate office would no longer be open for lobbyists this week. He was not available for comment on the charges yesterday...
...memorandum dated June 23, 1970 from the FBI's Philadelphia office to a Special Agent named Brinkley. The memo directed him to contact Selective Service Headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. -the site of the upcoming trial of the Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other defendants indicted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry A. Kissinger '50-to determine if UNDO had engaged in either of the following illegal practices...