William R. Kintner

“ For the Weather Underground leaders, the most important result of terrorist actions in the initial stages of the operation was media coverage. They wanted to show people both in the United States and around the world that there was a network of revolutionaries willing to take personal responsibility, to carry out terrorist acts "within the belly of the master" and in solidarity with revolutionary movements throughout the world. ”

“ While it is the dutv of the reporter to report the facts where acts of terrorism are involved, the selection of these facts to emphasize sensational brutality serves the terrorists and not the newspaper reader or the TV viewer. ”

“ They are to encourage the people to agitate and to organize, to join in every way possible the people's day-to-day struggle.
New York can look for a little party after Washington and Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia demonstration is being planned by the July 4th Coalition which is commanded by the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, a support organization — an above ground organization — for the Weather Underground, and by the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, a Castroite organization which supports the terrorist activities of the Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALX) . ”

“ I think there are some seriously interested in them but they use them as they do most of their activities as a proselytizing slogan, as a mode of recruitment trying to arouse emotional passion among people that they will then try to bring into their movement. ”

“ The line must be drawn somewhere and it seems to me clear that the first purpose of the law in any free society must be the protection of the community against violent minorities that seek to terrorize, intimi- date, and destroy the capacity of the Government to govern. ”

“ I think we have to take a look at the sources of our information. These are publications of a number of terrorist groups. Osawatomie is a publication of the Weather Underground. We have the publication here called TUG, The Urban Guerrilla, which is published by a west coast organization, the New World Liberaton Front.
Both the Weatherman Underground and the Urban Guerrilla group claim to have been responsible for many, many bombings of a terroristic nature in the United States. ”

“ The first requirement of an effective antiterrorist program is an effective intelligence operation. Intelli- gence includes not only precise information but also analytical capa- bility which yields critical information about the patterns of the ter- rorists and about the changing patterns of interlocks between the terrorist groups nationally and internationally.
The possession of facts alone does not solve the problem. Without the facts, the authorities are condennied to act in a blind and arbitrary fashion. ”

“ It seems to me we witnessed at the beginning of this session a classic technique, namely to use the general revolutionary symbols of our past to create psychological sympathy for a counterrevolution can be imposed upon the majority of the people. ”

“ Unfortunately, the international nature of modern terrorism has en- feebled this essential deterrent. Too many governments abroad give sanction and support to terrorists. This includes not only those such as Libya which train and supply tei-rorists, but governments which give in to terrorists demands again and again. ”

“ A requirement lias been established that no ejitry may be made about any person simply on the basis of mem- berehip in an oroanization even if it is violence prone. The individual must have a criminal conviction or an indictment. ”

“ The aboveground movement, to be called the Prairie Fire Organiz- ing Committee — would also have the responsibility of organizing mass struggles that could be linked with the terrorist actions of the Vreatlier Undergroimd. ”

“ Also involved in the plans for the Philadelphia demonstration are other radical groups ranging from the Community Party, Socialist Workers Party, Guardian, Workers World Party, and the Yippies, to an array
of violence prone organizations like the Black Panthers and the American Indian ^Movement, and the Palestine Solidarity Committee. ”

“ At the same time Weather Underground leaders believed that it was necessary to build an aboveground party m.ore openly revolutionaiy than the CommAuiist Party, U.S.A., which would advance propaganda justifications for the violent actions of the terrorist underground. ”