While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Vietnam, “united in … determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom,” J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in testimony before the senate supplement appropriates and deficiencies sub-committee, claims that the leftist Catholic organization “East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives” plans on kidnapping a senior Federal official and holding that person hostage until bombing in Vietnam is ended.
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James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 338.
Disarmed And Dangerous: The Radical Life And Times Of Daniel And Philip … – Murray Polner – Google Books
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