Word: lemmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fire teams" using crossbows, wrist-rocket sling shots, automatic weapons and homemade grenades would roam the streets of Miami attacking police, knocking out electric transformers, and firebombing stores. According to FBI Informer William Lemmer, those bizarre, bloody plans to disrupt the Republican National Convention last year were hatched by a group of Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Lemmer says he attended a secret meeting in May 1972 in a Gainesville, Fla., attic, where plans for the disruption were discussed and the plotters demonstrated the use of crossbows, carbines and explosives...
...defense objected to Lemmer's unexpected charges that drugs had been used in financing the training program. Defense lawyers said that the testimony is inflamatory and immaterial to the case. One defense attorney asked for a mistrial on these grounds...
...Lemmer was named regional coordinator for the VVAW in Oklahoma and Arkansas in April...
...came to Gainesville for four days of planning meetings on May 26, 1972. Lemmer testified that Camil discussed "contingency plans" to be used in the event of mass arrests in Miami Beach. Lemmer quoted Camil as saying, "If the situation [in Miami Beach] gets out of hand, our people should have adequate defenses... In the event of a crackdown, we might, first of all, hit police stations simultaneously with automatic weapon and grenade attacks...
...Lemmer testified that Camil called the M-1 carbine "an ideal weapon for urban guerilla warfare" and showed Lemmer home-made chemical bombs, "anti-personnel devices" that spewed fiberglass shrapnel, and $2.60 wrist-rocket slingshots