Word: kidnaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
Neil McLaughlin and Joseph Wenderoth, two Baltimore, Md., priests under indictment with Philip Berrigan and three others for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger '50 and blow up Washington heating tunnels, spoke to a Lowell Lecture Hall audience of about 60 people last night about their feelings on the war and on poverty in the inner city...
...agents yesterday served subpoenas on three Boston antiwar activists, instructing them to testify before a Harrisburg grand jury which indicted the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan and five other persons for an alleged bombing-kidnap conspiracy last January...
...Harrisburg grand jury has been investigating federal charges of a conspiracy since last Dec. 1, four days after FBI director J. Edgar Hoover claimed in widely publicized Senate testimony that a plot had been made "to blow up electrical conduits and steampipes" in Washington and "kidnap a highly placed government official [later said to be Henry A. Kissinger...
Suspect Boy Scouts. There was a strong suspicion that the theft was in some way connected to the case of the Berrigan brothers, the Catholic priests accused of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up Government property. The Media office is part of the FBI's Philadelphia division, which is handling the Berrigan investigation. Three days after the theft, Haverford Professor William Davidon, named as a co-conspirator in the Berrigan case, revealed the name of the raiding group before a gathering of clergymen and gave his unabashed approval of the theft...