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charging six individuals with conspiracy
. to destroy governmept broperty and con--
spiracy to kidnap.
was naned by the Fedcral Grand Jury as
a co-conspirator but was not indicted.
Students for a Denocratic Society (sDs)
Was founded during Junc, 1962, at Port
Huron, Michigan, and in the 1960's, func-
tioned a's the Ieading New Left, canpua-
Dascd student organization in the United
Statcs.
From an initial posture of
"partiaipatory denocracy", sDs noved to
a radical-revolutionary position, with
debatc centering on how .best to creater.
a revolutionary youth movement. 1
In=
ternal factionalasm produced a spiit
during the SDs National Convention in
June, l969, whieh resulted in the follow-
ing three (3) factions:
Weatherman,
Horker Student Aliiance (WsA); and
Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYu).
-Jre aaguoT ou oae Hxd pue ueuaouroM oui
iliated vith SDS. The WsA continues. to
use the name TsDs and maintains its
national headquarters at the Progressivc
Labor Party 0ffice (PLP), 139 Hain Streat,
.Cambridge, 'Massachubetts.
The Progressiva Labor Party (PLp), found-
ad in l96s by forner menbers. of the
Comnunist Party, usA, who assertedly
followed.a Chinese Conmunist line, is
a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist
organization dedicated to a dictator-
ship of. the working class.
Weathcrman, - formeriy a faction of SDSy
contxolled the SDs National Office fron
Junc, 1s69, until its closing in
February, 1970. Weatherman then onter
ed an underground status and adopted a
tactic of "stratcgic sabotage", with
police and military installations de-