Records
Clayton Van Lydegraf — FBI File
FBI file on Clayton Van Lydegraf (1915–1992), the veteran Communist Party USA member turned Weather Underground / PFOC theorist who was the political mentor of the post-1976 PFOC. Arrested in November 1977 as part of the 'LA 5' on conspiracy/explosives charges. The file documents decades of FBI surveillance from the Smith Act era through the Weather Undergro...
Erosion of Law Enforcement Intelligence and its Impact on the Public Security — Senate Hearings, 1978
1978 Senate Subcommittee hearings (95th Congress) lamenting the post-Church Committee curtailment of FBI domestic intelligence. PFOC, the Weather Underground, the FALN, and the BLA are repeatedly cited as the threats the committee believed the FBI was no longer monitoring adequately. A key document for understanding the political backlash that fed the FBI's...
The Split Of The Weather Underground Organization
Movement document on the 1976–77 split of the Weather Underground Organization that produced both the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee tendency on one side, and the 'Revolutionary Committee' that issued the 1976 self-criticism on the other. Essential context for the political conditions under which PFOC consolidated it...
Threats to the Peaceful Observance of the Bicentennial — Senate Subcommittee Hearing, June 18, 1976
Hearing before the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws (the 'Eastland Subcommittee') of the Committee on the Judiciary, 94th Congress, 2nd Session. One of the most extensive government documents on the Weather Underground Organization and the newly above-ground Prairie Fire Organ...
Bring the War Home
Compilation on the U.S. anti-imperialist armed-struggle tradition — Weather Underground, May 19 Communist Organization, United Freedom Front — that took the slogan "Bring the war home" literally during the Vietnam War and after. Sourced from azinelibrary.org (Anarchist Zine Library).