Weather Underground
The Weather Underground, or Weathermen was a leftist terrorist organization. [2]
Their ideology was explicitly communist and revolutionary. In one famous incident, several members were killed in the "Greenwich Village Explosion", in which amateur bomb-makers immolated themselves [3] preparing for a terrorist attack on Fort Dix. Other members, Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin, survived and were defended by National Lawyers Guild [4] 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. [5]
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) [6]
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: Innactive
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) [7]
- Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
- Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
- Youth International Party (YIP)
See also
References
- â FBI file, Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War
- â ATTAC Report
- â Court TV â Crime Library: Terrorists, The Weather Underground
- â NLG: The Legal Fifth Column, By Jesse Rigsby, FrontPageMagazine.com, April 25, 2003.
- â Court TV â Crime Library: The Brinks Robbery of 1981
- â Propagandizing the Police, By William Norman Grigg, New American, 1999-11-08.
- â Armed Resistance Unit Bombs US Capitol, Death To The Klan, Winter, 1984, No. 3.
External links
wolrdstatesman.org Weathermen (Weather Underground Organization)