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Comité De Salut Public
28th January 2004, 15:58
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_review.../08/080105.html (http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/2003/08/080105.html)


http://www.upstatefilms.org/weather/main.html

praxis1966
29th January 2004, 07:03
I most certainly do. I would love to get my hands on this documentary, although I have as of yet not been able to procure a copy for myself. If you know of anyplace that sells it, by all means let me know.

praxis1966
29th January 2004, 07:20
During the course of my search, I did however find this. It is an FBI site that contains a large amount of their declassified documents pertaining to the Weather Underground. Alot of stuff is blacked out, but there is more than enough information to get a general feel of how the Bureau viewed the organisation. One of the aspects I found interesting was that the FBI considered the Weathermen to be part of the international communist conspiracy, taking orders from both Havana and the Viet Cong.

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

Exploited Class
29th January 2004, 11:05
Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2004, 01:20 AM
During the course of my search, I did however find this. It is an FBI site that contains a large amount of their declassified documents pertaining to the Weather Underground. Alot of stuff is blacked out, but there is more than enough information to get a general feel of how the Bureau viewed the organisation. One of the aspects I found interesting was that the FBI considered the Weathermen to be part of the international communist conspiracy, taking orders from both Havana and the Viet Cong.

http://foia.fbi.gov/weather.htm
I doubt that they actually thought they took orders from other coutries.

It is a little known fact that to discredited both foreign nations that we disliked, movements we disliked, the government often us tactics of spilling incorect information out and linking them all to things that they were not at all associated with.

Like this.

If we link The Weather Underground with Communism and peopl dislike the Weather Underground then they will dislike Communism and vice versa.

If we link The Weather Underground (which people might be okay with) with the Viet Cong (which a lot of people dislike) then they will probably end up disliking The Weather Unground.

You've seen this method already, Iraq is associated with Al Quedia.

"hmmm why attack iraq, they haven't done anything in 10 years, oh they are working with Al Quedia, who just recently did something bad. Oh I hate iraq"

It is common practice and just because they skillfully release papers or make them public, then make them seem all official with black pen marks, appearing to keep you away from sensetive information in no way makes them real official papers of the FBI or at least the ones they really used in the office.

Agent provocateur
29th January 2004, 16:30
Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2004, 08:20 AM
During the course of my search, I did however find this. It is an FBI site that contains a large amount of their declassified documents pertaining to the Weather Underground. Alot of stuff is blacked out, but there is more than enough information to get a general feel of how the Bureau viewed the organisation. One of the aspects I found interesting was that the FBI considered the Weathermen to be part of the international communist conspiracy, taking orders from both Havana and the Viet Cong.

http://foia.fbi.gov/weather.htm
Thanks for the brain food. These FBI people are so stupid. Didn't they realize that students did not care for this war that was threatening their future with respect to the draft and the economy. "The Great Society" was falling apart.

praxis1966
29th January 2004, 19:51
For what it's worth, those documents do have details about members of the WUO traveling to Cuba to harvest sugar cane, as well as to Czechoslovakia to meet with representatives of the DRK. I don't know how much truth there is to either though. The WUO was heavily connected with Marxist-Leninism, as evidenced by their treatment of the matter in their publications Osawatomie and Praire Fire (the latter's name being taken from a quote attributed to Mao Tse-tung).