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The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' was a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization, active mostly in New York City in the 1960s. They took their name from the [[Bob Dylan]] song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
The '''Weather Underground''', or '''Weathermen''' was a [[leftist]] [[terrorist]] organization <ref>[http://www.attacreport.com/ar_terror/tframe.php?region=namerica&group=wuo ATTAC Report]</ref>, active mostly in New York City in the 1960s. They took their name from the [[Bob Dylan]] song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
::''...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...''
::''...you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...''
Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[Revolution|revolutionary]]. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground] </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]],
Their ideology was explicitly [[communist]] and [[Revolution|revolutionary]]. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/1.html Court TV – Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground] </ref> preparing for a [[terrorist]] attack on [[Fort Dix]]. Other members, [[Cathy Wilkerson]] and [[Kathy Boudin]],
survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003. </ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981] </ref>
survived and were defended by [[National Lawyers Guild]] <ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7494 NLG: The Legal Fifth Column], By Jesse Rigsby, ''FrontPageMagazine.com'', April 25, 2003. </ref> members. Kathy Boudin later received a 20-years-to-life sentence for her role in the 1981 Weatherman Nyack, New York Brinks armored truck robbery which resulted in the murders of two policemen and an armored truck security guard. <ref>[http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/15.html Court TV – Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981] </ref>
==Profile==
'''Founding/Supervisory Organizations:'''
*Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence (DGI)
*Communist Czechoslovakia
*Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (OSPAAL)
*[[Communist Vietnam]]
*[[National Lawyers Guild]] (NLG)
*[[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS)
'''Supporting Organizations:'''
*Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
*[[Workers World Party]] (WWP)
*[[Youth International Party]] (YIP) <ref>[http://www.jbs.org/node/735 Propagandizing the Police], By William Norman Grigg, ''New American'', 1999-11-08.</ref>
'''Weather Underground Organization (WUO)'''
Type of Organization: Terrorist/revolutionary
Location: United States
Ideological cover: Openly [[Marxist-Leninist]]
Activities: Urban guerrilla warfare; bombings; assassinations; riots; armed robbery; prison organizing; prison breaks
Target countries: [[United States]]
Status: Organized, possibly active
'''Assisted Organizations:'''
*American Indian Movement (AIM)
*Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
*Black Liberation Army (BLA)
*[[Black Panther Party]] (BPP)
*Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN)
*Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP)
*Republic of New Africa (RNA)
*Workers World Party (WWP)
'''Derivative/Controlled Organizations:'''
*Black Guerrilla Family (BGF)
*Black Liberation Army (BLA)
*[[John Brown Anti-Klan Committee]] (JBAKC) <ref>[http://nobsopus.blogspot.com/1983/11/armed-resistance-unit-bombs-us-capitol.html Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol], ''Death To The Klan'', Winter, 1984, No. 3.</ref>
*[[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]] (PFOC)
*[[Symbionese Liberation Army]] (SLA)
*Youth International Party (YIP)
==References==
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