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oy oe ~ ee veer enee oO » ee ere woo Na 1st © Sy : ay AI POTEET HS Nappanee 5 nn ces geen: era « 4 brine et rong | 4 ‘ a ‘RE: POSSIBLE STRIKE AND ATTEMPT TO CONFIDEMTIAL CLOSE DOWN KENT STATS UNIVERSITY (KSU), i KENT, OHIO, ON MAY 3 - 5, 1971: , -~ * . wpe a. Nae WEATHERMAN - . Initially called the “Action Faction," Weatherman . came into being immediately before the June, 1969, Students for a Democratic Scciety (SDS) 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 SDS National Office (NO) in Chicago, and controlled its funds, paper and national records. Although internal struggle existed until late 1969, Weatherman for all major purposes controlled SES nationally from June, 1969, until its NO closed in February, 1970. At this time it no longer considered itself part of SDS. The term Weatherman emerged from an ideological paper prepared by its leaders entitled "You Don't Need a Weathermnzn to Know Which Way the Wind Blows" ("New Left Notes" June 18, 1¢59). This statement outlined the basic stance of Weatherman: Marxist-Leninist in content hut with strong advocacy that action not theory would bring about revolution in the United States. This posture was complemented with an international identification to the Cuban revolution =m was wile wa = SA aw OY and Castro's statement that the duty of a revolutionary is to make revolution. During October, 1969, Weatherman riots in Chicago resulted in more than 260 arrests for mob action and related charges. <A program of armed struggle was finalized during a December, 1969, “War Council" wherein terrorist tactics and political assassination were contemplated, The: basic strencth of Yeatherman was then revealed to pe some 30G - 350 nationally and geographically apportioned to the Hidwest, New York, and some Northwest. “ As its rhetoric of violence cscalated, Weatherman leaders increasingly discussed the necessity of an underground operation wherein more than 20 percent of the organization would be submerged; “affinity groups" of three - five memberg would function independently . In February, 1970, Veathermag leaders announced a program of “strategic sabotage” with 3 polite and military installations as primary targets. °° U-us%-” APPENDIX. a5 7 _ CONIDENTIAL -