Weather Underground -exposed.

[Jan Klimkowski]

I was just looking at a review of an unauth bio of Obama, by Webster Tarpley and came across this sentence. I have been saying this for decades. Argruing with my good friend Carl Oglesby about his old friend Dohrn , from SDS days, with whom he parted ways when the violence began. OF course she went on to be an atty. and teaches at a U in Chicago. Carl went on to be destitute, but he gave all, first for peace, then for decades with the assassination of JFK:

By itself, Tarpley's expose on the true nature of the Weather Underground, as agent provocateurs against the legitimate peace movement is one of the keys to understanding what went wrong in America in the 60's makes the book a value for such unique analysis. By working to destroy not only the peace movement, but the civil rights movement and the labor movement in America, movements that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was actively bringing together is to understand the method of evil that continues with violence and racism that Ayers and Dohrn celebrate to this day with the protection of the establishment typified by the New York Times.

This is very complicated territory.

The Weather Underground, SDS, 60s student radicalism, Leary, LSD, levitating the Pentagon. Who was playing for the Yankees?

My own judgement is that certain members of the Weather Underground were agents provocateurs, but some were genuine revolutionaries. There are intriguing resonances with the Symbionese Liberation Army a few years later, except that Donald DeFreeze was a direct creation of Phoenix Program technology.

Thomas Pynchon's Vineland is a hugely funny and incisive exploration of the Weather Underground and 60s radicalism.

Pynchon even names names. If you can crack the code.