Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle of a major unexpected news story (the others: Lynette Fromme, Patty Hearst). Under the overall coordination of Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook, San Francisco Correspondent John Austin talked with local FBI and police sources and also interviewed the only FBI informant to have successfully infiltrated the Weather underground for our story on the California underground. Roland Flamini assembled a portrait of Sara Jane ("Sally") Moore. Christopher Ogden, who was close enough to the shooting to see the smoke of the gun, followed Moore in the aftermath and also interviewed Marine Corps Hero Oliver Sipple. A separate story...
...about 70 m.p.h. At the same time, she slipped six soft-nosed cartridges into her new revolver. "I was driving fast, loading the revolver and hoping I would get stopped for speeding," she claimed later. But no one stopped her, and she drove directly to the Union Square underground parking garage across the street from the St. Francis Hotel...
...between the attempts to kill Ford and the state's hard-core revolutionaries. Lynette Fromme was a follower of the psychopathic murderer Charles Manson; Sara Jane Moore tried to move from the left fringes and join the extreme radicals, but was never accepted. On the other hand, the underground radicals helped Patty Hearst and the other Symbionese Liberation Army fugitives elude the FBI for a year and a half...
Within this array of leftist activity hide the underground revolutionaries. They strike and burrow underground again in such places as the working-class neighborhoods of Los Angeles and the Mission District in San Francisco or the squalid slums of East Oakland and Sacramento. In addition, many terrorists are believed to be hiding among the students and transient street people of Berkeley's South Campus section. Furtive meetings between the underground and aboveground activists undoubtedly take place in the area's many coffeehouses, bars and parking lots. Other good meeting places are the parks known to students as People...
Clearly the Corporation decision did not resolve matters. Instead, tension ran underground, further weakening the foundation of the GSD. Evidence of this is found throughout the report: "Potentially the most difficult factor to deal with is the existence to this day of bitter animosities between individuals. Some of these date back to the period under consideration; others arise from subsequent events and issues unrelated to this case ... If anything, each side has on occasion sought to undermine the other. Thus at the heart of the investigation we have a three-way rather than a two-way conflict...