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APPENDI¥ {~ WEATHERMAN Initially called the “Action Faction,” Weatherman came into being immediately before the June, 1969, Students for a Nemocratic Society (SNS) National Convention (NC). At this NC Weatherman won all three national officer positions and a majority of the National Interim Committee as well, Subseauently, they took over the SNS National Office (NO} in Chicago, and controlled its funds, paner and national records, Although internal struggle existed until late 1969, Weatherman for all major purnoses controlled SDS nationally from June, 1969, until its NO closed in February, 1970. At this time it no longer considered itself part of SNS, The term Weatherman emerged from an ideological paper vrepared by its leaders entitled "You Pon't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows" ("New Left Notes" June 18, 1969). This statement outlined the hasic Stance of Weatherman: Marxist-Leninist in content but with strong advocacy that action not theory would bring about revolution in the United States. This vosture was commlemented with an international identification to the Cuban revolution and Castro's statement that the duty of a revolutionary is to make revolution, Nuring October, 1969, Weatherman riots in Chicago resulted in more than 260 arrests for mob action and related charges. A program of armed struqgle was finalized during a December, 1569, "War Council” wherein terrorist tactics and political assassination were contemplated. The basic strength of Weatherman was then revealed to be some 300 += 350 nationally and qeogqranhically apportioned to the Midwest, New York, and some Northwest, As its rhetoric of violence escalated, Weatherman leaders increasingly discussed the necessity of an underground operation wherein more than 90 per cent of the organization would be submerged; “affinity grouns" of three - five memhers would function inderendently. In February, 1979, Weatherman Lon ee weir e WS Lea atteiaae leadcrs announced a vroqram of “strategic sabotage" with police and military installations as primary targets. In February, 1979, Weatherman abandoned the SNS NO, 1608 West “Madison Street, Chicago, Tllinois, and throughout the country entered an underqround status, a ae - 12 -