Former FBI Informant Reveals Truth About Ayers & Weather Underground's Campaign Of Political Murder

PipeLineNews.org ^ | January 21, 2009 | By WILLIAM MAYER

[Jim Robinson]

January 21, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Almost from its inception, the Weather Underground [WU] was viewed with great concern by the FBI. As a result, the decision was made to place a high level informant within the group to help keeps tabs on its members' activities.

That person was Larry Grathwohl, a Vietnam veteran and the only publicly identified FBI informant who succeeded in penetrating the Weather Underground, serving in that capacity from August 1969 until April 1970. Prior to his service in the FBI, he was a member of the Cincinnati Police force.

PipeLineNews.org contacted Mr. Grathwohl yesterday so that he might be able to provide further insight into Ayers' real history, devoid of revisionism.

Though Ayers is currently touring the country pushing a newly authored manual on "social justice" and speaking at American colleges [including the Moraga, California campus of St. Mary's] his past suggests a far more sinister devotion.

For example, during an interview late last year and broadcast on Fox, Mr. Grathwohl made the following statement:

"I was in meetings with him when we were planning to put bombs at the Detroit Police Association building and the 13th precinct and he specified that the bomb should contain fence [heavy] staples in order to have an anti personnel effect."

When asked to provide additional detail about the Detroit bombings, Grathwold said:

"Bill likes to present himself as an anti war protestor and justify his participation in so called "property" bombings as a reaction to the violence of the Vietnam War. He states that he never participated in a bombing that resulted in an injury or death. Absolutely untrue!"...

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Maybe that quote of Ayers's from 1970, that 25,000,000 Americans would have to disappear in one-way trips to concentration camps to make society new again, would be an appropriate bookend to Ayers's gushy sentiment expressed last year.

Must see video!

"Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States:

Larry Grathwohl:

"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ

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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

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From November 10, 2003:

30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen
[Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army, Ayers, Dohrn]

BAY AREA (KRON) -- The unsolved murder of two San Francisco police officers has languished as cold cases for 30 years until now. A federal grand jury has been looking into the murders. Many of the people now under investigation both as potential targets and witnesses in this case are scattered across the country. Many of them are now in their 50s and 60s. Investigators believe the crimes were politically motivated and committed by militant radical groups.

On August 29, 1971, sergeant John Young is killed in a barrage of gunfire when two men walk into the Ingleside police station and begin shooting at officers sitting behind the glass partition. It is the second unsolved police killing in 18 months.

On February 16, 1970, officer Brian McDonnell is killed when a bomb explodes at Park Police Station. Attorney Joe O'Sullivan, at the time was a young police officer. "It was just bedlam. I don't think we were able to get into the station. I think it was cordoned off. Nobody really knew the exact nature of the devastation," he says.

For three decades, the police murders remained unsolved. Evidence from the two crime scenes sat in the police property room.

KRON 4 News has learned that three years ago, San Francisco police secretly re-opened the case. Armed with new forensic technology and with State and Federal agencies helping, SFPD investigators began to work full-time on the murders.

And now, sources tell us, those investigators have identified potential suspects: former members of two militant groups in the '60s and '70s -- the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, people who've been out of the spotlight for decades. The most prominent among them is Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the Weather Underground and now a law professor at Northwestern University in Illinois.

30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen [part 1 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460

Patriot Act Used to Reopen Murder Case? [part 2 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1521312

Survivor of Old Murder Case Speaks Out [part 3 of 3]
http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1523015&nav=5D7lJ5fb

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The following from wikipedia is well documented and sourced.

Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell

"In a bombing that took place on February 16, 1970, and that was credited to the Weathermen at the time,[19][20] a pipe bomb filled with heavy metal staples and lead bullet projectiles was set off on the ledge of a window at the Park Station of the San Francisco Police Department. In the blast, Brian V. McDonnell, a police sergeant, was fatally wounded while Robert Fogarty, another police officer, received severe wounds to his face and legs and was partially blinded.[21]

Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn has been suspected of involvement in the February 16, 1970, bombing of the Park Police Station in San Francisco. At the time, Dohrn was said to be living with a Weatherman cell in a houseboat in Sausalito, California, unnamed law enforcement sources later told KRON-TV.[22]

An investigation into the case was reopened in 1999,[23] and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed,[22] and no one was ever arrested for the bombing.[23]

An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Bill Ayers, then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there.[24]

In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself.[25] In 2008, author David Freddoso commented that "Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them", Freddoso wrote.[24][26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Anti-personnel_bomb_set_on_window-ledge_in_San_Francisco

SOURCES:

[19] http://www.lapismagazine.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=59

[20] Former Weatherman Larry Grathwohl's October 18, 1974 testimony to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

[21] http://www.sfpoa.org/journal/journals/20070201.pdf
(SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION)

[22] http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460

[23] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/17/BAGPRO6J7J1.DTL&type=printable

[24] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Barack_Obama

[25] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0870003350

[26] http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=ODVlZTZlM2M5NTMxMzllMjJkODVkNzQ3YTFjMTY0NzE=

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Weather Underground Organization linked to North Vietnamese and Cuban governments, KGB (my title)
[420 pages in all on pdf]

Source: FBI, via Freedom of Information Act

In 1976, the FBI's Chicago Field Office prepared a summary which described the activities of the Weather Underground Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The FBI's analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international travels are outlined in this summary.

[some excerpts from the 1976 report linking the organization to foreign governments...]

From the moment in October, 1967, when Radio Hanoi announced the formation of the South Vietnamese Peoples Committee for Solidarity with American People (by the National Liberation Front (NLF), the political arm of the Viet Cong) with the objective of establishing relations with "progressive organizations and individuals in the United States," a political front was enjoined in behalf of the national interests of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam (DRV) (and the NLF), the purpose of which was to intensify the anti-war sentiment in the United States.

From the initial meeting between the Vietnamese and leading anti-war activists held in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, in November, 1967, to the July, 1969, meeting with leading Weatherpeople held in Havana, Cuba, the influence of Vietnamese representatives on the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leadership became sharply pronounced. At the same time, the example of the Cuban revolution became the guide for the emerging American student revolutionary. With an increasing number of trips to Havana where the youthful revolutionary could learn at first hand how to create revolution, the influence of Cuba on the developing WUO [Weather Underground Organization] was enormous.

The WUO obtained their revolutionary methodology from the Cubans and Vietnamese and, importantly, put into practice what they had learned from them. The Weathermen, of course, did not just happen to come about during the June, 1969, SDS National Convention. They fully admit their radical heritage began during experiences gained in SDS and as shown herein their international contacts with representatives of the DRV and NLF which began in 1967 increased their anti-imperialist consciousness so that by 1969 they had solidified their revolutionary commitment to include the maximum optimum of armed struggle. So, when Huynh Van Ba, representative of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), instructed the WUO to "look for the person who fights hardest against the cops...Don't look for the one who says the best thing. Look for the one who fights," the campus base was forgotten and the WUO began to recruit the greasers and assorted oddments who had displayed their hatred of authority in direct combat with police.

http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/weather.htm

[marine86297]

PLEASE Keep me on the Marine Ping!

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From the New York Times, September 11, 2001:

"He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend."

Source: New York Times, September 11, 2001: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Jim,
Bill Ayers claims that John McCain was a terrorist. Article from Freep.com
Bill Ayers denies '70s plot to blow up Detroit police sites

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RE: bombing of a San Fransisco police station:

"An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Bill Ayers, then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there.[24]

In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself.[25] In 2008, author David Freddoso commented that "Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them", Freddoso wrote.[24][26]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2171521/posts?page=42#42

[MeekOneGOP]

JimRob’s note:

We are joining PipeLineNews and MoveAmericaForward’s protest of Bill Ayers’ appearance at St Mary’s College in Moraga, CA on January 28. Larry Grathwohl, the only FBI informant ever to successfully infiltrate Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground will be a special guest at our protest and have a significant speaking role, courtesy of Melanie Morgan and Move America Forward!

Please join us if you can.

“Ayers has been running away from the truth for over 30 years, those days are over.”

For more info on the protest please visit:

http://www.pipelinenews.org/stmarys.html

http://www.moveamericaforward.org/

http://www.melaniemorgan.com/content/view/1329/1/

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Ping! Ping! Ping!

[jan in Colorado]

PLEASE!

God Bless you, Jim Robinson!

[MeekOneGOP]

BUMPERS !!!

[\/\/ayne]

I would suggest making a one page double-sided flyer about Ayers to pass out, post it somewhere and link it here.

On one side have sourced quotes from Ayers, Dorn and Larry Grathwohl. On the other a brief, one page summery of the Weathermen plus Ayers' and Dorn's career. There are a number of free PDF makers out there to create it in that format.

This would make a great flyer to hand out. I know, there's a lot more than will fit on two pages. So just use the worst parts of it! Maybe have the photo of Ayers on the flag in the corner.

Handing out informational flyers is a great way to protest. It also cuts down on the number of "screamers" you endure. Many will read the flyer, say "Oh, that's why they're here, I can relate to that (even if I disagree.")

Step one: An Ayer's investigation enthusiest makes the flyer, formats it, puts in on the internet and links it here.

Step two: Someone has to get a bunch of double-sided copies printed somewhere and bring them to the protest.

Step three: Everyone pass out flyers at the protest.

[trussell]

Prayer warriors...

FYI ping. Please keep this gathering in your prayers that their goal to expose the truth will be reached.

[Drango]

I’m 90% sure I can make it. Eagles up!

[LibertyRocks]

I really wish I could be there, but I will be praying for all of you and will be with you “in spirit”. The truth WILL come out one way or another - and I will be praying that it does sooner rather than later.

[LibertyRocks]

Thanks for the ping to this thread, trussel. I’ll be praying for the safety of our friends, as well as the exposing of the truth about this traitor terrorist and his traitor terrorist wife... They openly advocated for a violent overthrow of our government and I cannot fathom why he and his wife are not rotting away in a jail cell for the rest of their lives for that alone — not to mention the murders they caused, and the havoc the wreaked on our country — and they are STILL at it even if they’ve put away their bombs now, their goals are the SAME: an overthrow of our Capitalist System and our Constitutional Republic in favor of COMMUNISM.

The ONLY reason these two are not in jail is because he (smartly) went to Chicago where his Dad and his Daley Machine crony friends could assure he didn’t wind up in prison... If there hadn’t been a technicality to get them off in the first place, they would’ve found SOME way to do it. For all the whining and complaining he did during his years “underground” about his rich parents he knew exactly who to go to when the stuff hit the fan...

[GOPJ]

Thanks for th e ping.

[Alamo-Girl]

Buuuump!

[cake_crumb]

Great find. We need to do some work to spread info like this as far and wide as possible.

[Madame Dufarge]

Dugg.

[MountainFlower]

Prayers up that their goal is met, and they are protected. Prayers that any plans the enemy may have for harm will drop to the ground, null, void and powerless to be carried out. in Jesus Name, Amen!