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'''David Joseph Gilbert'''  (born October 6, 1944 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a high-level [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO) operative now serving an extended prison sentence in [[New York]] state for his role in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck in which two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed. Gilbert was a member of the Maoist Ayers/Dohrn Action Faction which expelled [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) members from SDS leadership.  Without Moscow and CPUSA backing, WUO operatives turned to bank robbery and armored truck heists to fund revolutionary activity in the [[United States]]
 
'''David Joseph Gilbert'''  (born October 6, 1944 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a high-level [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS) and [[Weather Underground Organization]] (WUO) operative now serving an extended prison sentence in [[New York]] state for his role in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck in which two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed. Gilbert was a member of the Maoist Ayers/Dohrn Action Faction which expelled [[Communist Party USA]] (CPUSA) members from SDS leadership.  Without Moscow and CPUSA backing, WUO operatives turned to bank robbery and armored truck heists to fund revolutionary activity in the [[United States]]
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Gilbert was highly active in SDS activities during the [[Columbia University]] strike in 1968 and became SDS Regional [[Community organizing|Community Organizer]]. Gilbert's fingerprints were found at a WUO bomb factory in [[San Fransisco]]. Gilbert is also affiliated with the [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]].
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Gilbert was highly active in SDS activities during the [[Columbia University]] strike in 1968 and became SDS Regional [[Community organizing|Community Organizer]]. Gilbert's fingerprints were found at a WUO bomb factory in [[San Francisco]]. Gilbert is also affiliated with the [[Prairie Fire Organizing Committee]].
    
At a debate at the University of Denver on November 11, 1969, Gilbert stated a violent [[Third World]] revolution was only way to achieve the goal of "world communism."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath2a.pdf Page 202 in original (p. 17 pdf).]</ref>
 
At a debate at the University of Denver on November 11, 1969, Gilbert stated a violent [[Third World]] revolution was only way to achieve the goal of "world communism."<ref>Foreign Influence - Weather Underground Organization (WUO). FBI Chicago Field Office Report, August 20, 1976. [http://foia.fbi.gov/weather/weath2a.pdf Page 202 in original (p. 17 pdf).]</ref>
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