Students for a Democratic Society and the Weatherman Underground Association

Microfilm LB 3610 .F35 | FBI File

[Calpernia]

Scope: Covering the years1962-1977, this file provides descriptions of anti-war rallies and materials produced by the Students for a Democratic Society. It also has detailed information on the protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, a "defining moment" of the SDS. "The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a progressive, radical reformist student group, grew from the ranks of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID), whose own student group, the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID) had become all but defunct by the end of the 1950s. . .Under new Field Secretary Robert Alan Haber, University of Michigan graduate student, SDS established a national office in New York and began to organize itself as a fringe political group within American academe by the end of the 1961-62 school year." "SDS had been monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as early as 1962, but SDS involvement in the April 1965 Student March on Washington against the Vietnam War caught the Johnson administration off guard and the order to monitor SDS activities followed swiftly. The Bureau investigation centered in Chicago, where SDS had established its national office at 1103 E. 63rd Street, in the heart of the ghetto." "The FBI could find no hard evidence of outside influence or control of SDS, even though many of its leaders were espousing the radical thinking of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro and Che Guevara. Because SDS had none of the traditional hall marks of foreign control or influence, they were classified as part of what became known as the 'New Left.'" From the Introduction of the Guide to the collection

This collection also includes information on the Weatherman Underground Organization, a faction that came out of the SDS and was of interest to the FBI. The guide to the collection also provides some information on this group.

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Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.) -- History

Weatherman (Organization)

Student movements -- United States

Student movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources

[geopyg]

Thanks for the post. The anti-war movement, along with Nixon being railroaded out of office with the help of the media caused the loss of the peace in Vietnam. (A peace that Nixon and our troops had WON).

The American people and our representatives in Congress were only too glad to put the whole awful mess behind them once Nixon was gone.

If Kerry wins this election (which he won't), the same thing will happen in Iraq, and perhaps more sadly, in Afghanistan.

[Calpernia]

>>>But I especially hold the professors and teachers responsible who encouraged it.

Bump!

There was a mock election today at my kids elementary school.

My 5y.o. came home today repeating Bush kills people with guns. My 7y.o. came home saying he voted for Kerry cause we just need a new president. My 9y.o. thankfully voted for Bush.

I asked each of my kids how any of them based their decisions, none were given platforms to base their decisions.

I didn't let them watch cartoons after their homework. I made them watch Stolen Honor. I figured if the school felt they were old enough to play politics, they at least needed some background.

I feel bad now. Made my daughter cry. Then she asked why they didn't learn about this in school.

[Calpernia]

Evidence that NSC Staff Supported Using Drug Money to Fund the Contras

In 1987, the Senate Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations, led by Senator John Kerry, launched an investigation of allegations arising from reports, more than a decade ago, of contra-drug links. One of the incidents examined by the "Kerry Committee" was an effort to divert drug money from a counternarcotics operation to the contra war.

On July 28, 1988, two DEA agents testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime regarding a sting operation conducted against the Medellin Cartel. The two agents said that in 1985 Oliver North had wanted to take $1.5 million in Cartel bribe money that was carried by a DEA informant and give it to the contras. DEA officials rejected the idea.

The Kerry Committee report concluded that "senior U.S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras' funding problems."

[hedgetrimmer]

Thanks for the ping

[Calpernia]

Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry

ftp://ftp1.thekerrymovie.com/pub/kerry/goingupriver.mov

[Calpernia]

JTF Exclusive: The Communists
Behind Kerry's Anti-War Protests

When Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry returned from Vietnam, he immediately became a leader, a spokesman and an organizer for massive anti-war demonstrations that were funded, controlled and sponsored by openly Communist groups who explicitly stated that their goal was to enable America's Communist enemies to win the Vietnam war.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) - the anti-American and pro-Communist group that Kerry led - attended numerous demonstrations that were run lock, stock and barrel by admitted Communists.

Kerry himself frequently spoke at these Communist rallies.

In 1970 and 1971, Kerry's VVAW co-sponsored rallies with the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Socialist Alliance, the Student Mobilization Committee, the New Mobilization Committee and the Black Panther Party.

Here is a review of Kerry's allies and sponsors from his days as an anti-war protester:

Vietnam Moratorium Committee (VMC)

The VMC held huge rallies throughout the country from 1969 to 1972 where thousands of demonstrators waved the flags of America's Viet Cong Communist enemies and carried posters of North Vietnamese Communist dictator Ho Chi Minh. "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! The Viet Cong are going to win!" was the repeated chant of the VMC demonstrators.

John Kerry's sister Peggy was deeply involved as a volunteer for the VMC.

At a VMC rally on November 15, 1969 at the Justice Department in Washington, protesters broke windows, threw paint on the building, lowered the U.S. flag and attempted unsuccessfully to replace it with a Viet Cong flag. After police dispersed the violent demonstrators with tear gas, bands of the protesters roamed the city causing damage to numerous businesses. As a result of the VMC's "peaceful" demonstration, 606 people were injured, including 26 police officers. Later VMC rallies in 1970, 1971 and 1972 were equally violent.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

SDS was founded by followers of Chinese Communist dictator Mao Tzedong, who murdered millions of his fellow Chinese during his reign of genocidal terror in China. The SDS platform - adopted at their 1969 convention - openly called for a Maoite Communist takeover of America. The SDS platform also openly called for the destruction of the State of Israel.

Many of SDS's founders were self-hating Jews, such as Mark Rudd and Michael Lerner. Lerner now claims to be a Reform "rabbi" who organizes "progressive" Jews to assist the Arab Muslim Nazis in their relentless war to annihilate little Israel. (The Judenrat Lerner is regarded as a perfectly respectable Jewish community leader by Jewish Establishment organizations.)

The treasonous vermin of SDS co-sponsored and prominently participated in most of the anti-war rallies where John Kerry was a speaker.

Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)

YSA was - and still is - the youth group of the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party. Devoted to the hideously evil philosophy of Communist terrorist Leon Trotsky, YSA openly called for a Communist takeover of America while it was co-sponsoring anti-war rallies with Kerry and the VVAW.

YSA also openly called for the extermination of Israel - and still does to this day. "We call for the abolition of Israel," YSA proclaims on its current web site.

Student Mobilization Committee (SMC)

The SMC was controlled entirely by the Trotskyite Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA). Every SMC office was run from top to bottom by SWP/YSA members.

This is important, since the SMC was one of the leading sponsors of Kerry's anti-war demonstrations.

New Mobilization Committee (NMC)

Most NMC leaders were members of the Communist Party or Communist Party-affiliated organizations. The NMC held meetings with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong Communist enemies of America in order to receive instructions on how to best coordinate their anti-war protests.

On February 21, 1970, at an NMC rally in Washington, the main speaker was William Kunstler, the late and unlamented self-hating Jewish Communist lawyer who later would defend in court at no charge the Muslim Nazi terrorists who murdered the saintly Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990 and who bombed the World Trade Center the first time in 1993. Following Kunstler's inciteful speech, NMC demonstrators stoned police and started smashing windows. Over 100 NMC protesters were arrested.

The NMC was a leading co-sponsor of Kerry's anti-war demonstrations.

Black Panther Party (BPP)

The viciously anti-white and anti-Semitic Black Panthers were co-sponsors of most of Kerry's anti-war rallies. The Panthers claimed to be fighting against drug dealers in their communities. Yet most Panther leaders were themselves eventually arrested for drug dealing.

In 1969 alone, 348 Panther members were arrested for serious crimes including murder, rape, armed robbery, bank robbery and burglary. The Panther newspaper urged blacks to use "high-powered rifles" against police officers with "enough killing force to knock the pig out of his shoes at a distance of three or four blocks." Police uncovered at Panther headquarters 125 machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, rifles and hand grenades, together with thousands of rounds of ammunition. Police also found 47 Molotov cocktails plus homemade bombs, gunpowder, bayonets, swords and machetes.

Most Panther leaders eventually converted to Islam. The Panther newspaper urged active support for Arab terrorists such as Al Fatah in order to murder all "Zionist pigs."

The newspaper concluded, "The only good Zionist pig is a dead Zionist pig!!!"

Did John Kerry really agree with the Communist, anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic views of the radical left-wing groups that he worked closely with in the early 1970s?

Whether or not he agreed with these grotesque individuals, the mere fact that he knowingly joined with them, assisted them and made speeches with them must automatically disqualify him to be President of the United States or hold any other office.

If Kerry did not share all of their vile views, but worked with them solely to advance his own career, then he is a traitor who betrayed his country for purely opportunistic reasons.

If Kerry did agree with the horrific views of these extremist organizations - or at least with some of their horrific views - then the situation is even worse.

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[Fedora]

Wow, good thread! I'll post notes individually:

Senator J. William Fulbright

Before opposing Vietnam, Fulbright had joined Mike Mansfield in taking a leading role against US action against Cuba. Mansfield joined Fulbright as an early critic of the Vietnam War. In response to a request for an investigation by President Johnson, the FBI submitted a report demonstrating how Fulbright's talking points mirrored North Vietnamese propaganda.

[Fedora]

In January of 1971, Jane Fonda

Who at that time met her future husband Tom Hayden, formerly a leader of SDS. Hayden and Fonda worked closely with Rennie Davis of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, which was linked to the VVAW's Al Hubbard. Later Hayden and Fonda supported the Sandinistas, with Hayden "discovering" one of the Kerry narcoterrorism subcommittee's key "witnesses".

[Calpernia]

I have notes on a POW in Vietnam that was tortured by Cuba. I'll go find it.

[Fedora]

a Communist accuses him of joining former SDS leader Carl Oglesby in "something called the Assassination Information Bureau" -- an effort to exonerate Marxist assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by discrediting the Warren Commission report on Oswald's murder of President Kennedy.

This effort was joined by Bertrand Russell, who initiated what became the VVAW's Winter Soldier investigation; and Mark Lane, who was covertly funded by the KGB and recruited Fonda to fund Winter Soldier.

[Fedora]

October 20: Lowenstein meets with Minnesota Senator Eugene J. McCarthy

Lowenstein was also linked to VVAW members working on the McCarthy campaign. Brinkley's bio of Kerry mentions that earlier, before going to Vietnam and before joining the VVAW, Kerry had been inspired by Lowenstein's speeches at Yale.

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Testimony of Michael D. Benge

before the House International Relations Committee

Chaired by the Honorable Benjamin A. Gilman,

November 4, 1999.

My name is Michael D. Benge. While serving as a civilian Economic Development Officer in the Central Highlands of South Viet Nam, I was captured by the North Vietnamese during the Tet Offensive on January 28, 1968. I was held in numerous camps in South Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and North Viet Nam. I was a POW for over five years, and spent 27 months in solitary confinement, one year in a "black box," and one year in a cage in Cambodia. I served for almost 11 years in Viet Nam. I was released during Operation Homecoming in 1973. I am a Board Member of the National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen. And, I am a POW/MIA activist; that is, I am one who is actively seeking the truth regarding the fate of our Prisoners of War and Missing in Action.

I was not tortured by the Cubans, nor was I part of the "Cuban Program." There were 19 American POWs that I know of who were tortured by the Cubans in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. These brave men include Colonel Jack Bomar and Captain Ray Vohden, who will testify, and also Commander Al Carpenter, who is with us today. They named their torturers "Fidel," "Chico" and "Pancho." The torture took place in a POW camp called the Zoo, and the Vietnamese camp commander was a man they called the "Lump." He was called that because of the presence of a rather large fatty tumor in the middle of his forehead.

(snip)

posted here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1209454/posts?page=201#201

[Calpernia]

>>>Who at that time met her future husband Tom Hayden, formerly a leader of SDS.

Now that is interesting!

[Fedora]

More on Lowenstein: I forgot to mention he represented the antiwar wing of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a branch of the Democratic Party which had been set up early in the Cold War supposedly to attract "moderates", but which had key members from the far left, notably former Felix Frankfurter agent Joseph Rauh. During the 1968 campaign the antiwar wing of ADA (led by Rauh, Galbraith, and Lowenstein and linked to Mansfield and McGovern among others) sought an antiwar alternative to LBJ for the '68 campaign. Initially Robert Kennedy and McGovern were approached. Kennedy referred them to McCarthy, before deciding to enter the race himself. More on this in Stephen M. Gillon, Politics and Vision.

[Fedora]

Dr. Benjamin Spock

From the Communist-infiltrated antiwar group SANE, from the Massachusetts branch of which grew the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, linked to both the young Clintons and Kerry.

[PhilDragoo]

[Calpernia]

>>>former SDS leader Carl Oglesby

?????

Him?

Carl Oglesby may be the ultimate politically hyphenated American: He's an anti-interventionist-New Left-humanist-libertarian. He's also a folk singer with two albums to his credit, an author, and one of the nation's leading experts on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Oglesby's background didn't hint that he would end up, as Murray Rothbard called him in 1992, a "longtime libertarian." Born in Ohio, Oglesby attended Kent State University and then worked in Michigan as a technical editor for a defense contractor.

His world turned upside down in 1965 when he became radicalized about the United States' growing military involvement in Vietnam. Later that year, he was elected president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a "New Left" group that organized student opposition to the Vietnam War.

(snip)

more

http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/carl-oglesby.html

[Fedora]

Evidence that NSC Staff Supported Using Drug Money to Fund the Contras

But in contrast to the emphasis of Kerry's summary of this, note the money in question had been previously confiscated during a bust of Sandinista-linked elements of the Medellin Cartel; it was not raised from drug-running by the NSC or CIA. Also note that North's idea on this was rejected--my guess is because the confiscated money was still considered evidence as long as the prosecution in question was ongoing.