Caught in the dragnet of the Brink's investigation were members of four supposedly dormant or little-known radical organizations. A brief guide to those underground groups:
Weather Underground Organization. Originally called Weatherman (after the Bob Dylan lyric "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"), the group was formed in 1969 by about 300 mostly white, middle-class youths who split from the relatively nonviolent Students for a Democratic Society and called for an "armed struggle against the state." A hard core of about 40 Weathermen went underground in 1970 to start a terror campaign. In March of that year...
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