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Perdue said that after news about the indictment of eight VVAW organizers spread around the country over the summer of 1972, these wellsprings of VVAW support within Nixon's silent majority evaporated...
...original indictments. Second, the political views of the group were diverse and devotion to ideals varied greatly. Several of the eight wanted the get the trial over with the forget the nightmare of the indictment and trial. Most significant, however, was the problem of government infiltration within the VVAW ranks...
When the majority of the defendants and VVAW executives decided on a passive defense. Perdue said that he and VVAW Florida coordinator Scott Camil were leery about a defense in which they could only attack what the government brought up. Camil and Perdue wanted to attempt to disprove all the testimony of the government witnesses, even though the contradictions were obvious, Perdue said...
Perdue condemned the government's use of agent-provacateurs in creating conspiracy cases. He said, "the government wanted to use these tactics against all movement organizations but chose the VVAW as the final Guinea pigs...
Lentini said that he was disillusioned with VVAW. "We had no plan. We didn't know where we were going," he said of his time with the veterans' organization. Lentini stressed the professionalism he finds in Divine Light Mission. "We had no feedback in the movement," he said. "Now we always know what's going on with the people outside...