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About 250 people marched down Massachusetts Avenue last night in a candlelight procession commemorating the third anniversary of the controversial death of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker who attempted to expose her company's violations of safety and quality standard rules...
...procession, sponsored by the eastern federation of Supporters of Silkwood (SOS) and Boston chapters of various anti-nuclear power organizations, marched from a rally held at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) building in Cambridge to a memorial service at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...story of Karen Silkwood can not be seen as an isolated case, but rather as an example of a conscious government policy to harass nuclear dissidents," Garrison said...
Srouji's ties to the FBI might have gone undetected if she had not been involved in another sensitive matter: the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood (TIME, Jan. 20, 1975). An Oklahoma plutonium worker active in her union, Silkwood was killed in a 1974 auto accident while on the way to tell a reporter about alleged health and nuclear safety violations in the plant where she worked. Just before returning to the Tennessean, Srouji finished writing Critical Mass, a paean to the nuclear industry to be released this summer by Aurora Publishers Inc., a small Nashville concern. The book...
...sold two articles about the nuclear safety controversy to Nashville! magazine. It was when Aurora asked her to write a book on the subject that she reestablished her contact with Olson, now assigned to the FBI's Oklahoma City office, where he helped conduct the bureau's Silkwood investigation. Over a two-month period, Srouji testified, she was allowed to photocopy bureau summaries of the inquiry. Some months before Srouji rejoined the Tennessean last fall, she began passing information to the FBI. This included details of interviews for her book that she conducted at the Soviet embassy with...