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Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen [Kindle Edition]

Larry Grathwohl , Frank Reagan
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)

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Book Description

Time Magazine called him "the only FBI informant known to have successfully penetrated the Weather Underground."

In 1969, Larry Grathwohl stepped out of his life and into the role of an informant for the FBI. For a year, Grathwohl ran with America's most dangerous radicals. He planned bombings, murders, and political assassinations. He saw, up close, a gang of thugs dedicated to bringing down America.

When the Weathermen went underground in 1970, Grathwohl went with them. He was directly involved in schemes to blow up a string of police stations, and even the power plant at Niagara Falls. Other Weather groups were plotting to kidnap Vice President Agnew and to assassinate police chiefs, public officials, anyone representing authority.

This book was first published in 1976, when the leaders of the Weather Underground were still in hiding. Nobody would have predicted, then, that Weather Underground terrorists such as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Jeff Jones would emerge from hiding, avoid consequences for their crimes, and rise to positions of authority in academia and politics.

Grathwohl's story, re-published here, is now more important than ever. He challenges four decades of propaganda orchestrated by the Weathermen themselves. He disproves claims that the Weathermen weren't really violent, didn't target people, and were not really terrorists.

He reminds us what the Weathermen were really like, and what they were really planning for America.


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About the Author

Frank Reagan's long career in journalism began at the New York Daily Mirror. He rose through the ranks of reporting and editing positions with the Ottaway and Gannett newspaper chains and The Wall Street Journal before forming his own public relations agency. His numerous assignments included newspaper and magazine articles on such a wide range of topics as sports, investigative, and government reporting. He acted as editor and publisher of a monthly magazine for independent trucking companies and authored a book that covered the 25-year history of a continuing care facility. His clients were as diverse as the City of Montreal and the Rose Bowl Parade. A master writer and author, Frank found Larry's story so compelling that he immediately agreed to work him. Sadly, Frank passed away in 1993 at the age of 56.

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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing Down America, by Larry Grathwohl April 1, 2013
Format:Kindle Edition
This book is a no holds barred true account of the Weather Underground, it's treasonous activities, and the havoc that it's members wrought upon the U.S. Government, the police, and on college campuses throughout the country. They employed tactics learned on visits to Cuba from Cuban, Soviet and North Vietnamese intelligence agents.

Bringing Down America is a tale of conspiracy and treachery committed by Marxist radicals such as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd and others who carried out bombings,some of which resulted in murder and terrorized citizens by bombing police stations, the Pentagon, and in one case, the private residence of a judge and his family.

Victims of their murderous two decade long rampage included cops and armored car guards who were assassinated in robberies and bombings. These bombings included one case in which some of their own blew themselves up while building a bomb they were planning to plant at a dance on a military base.

Many of traitors escaped justice and are now embedded in academic & government jobs.

Some, such as Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, are close to the President of The United States and are camoflaging themselves in legitimate occupations while whittling away at our system of government much like termites do to a building.

This book should be on everyones list. Anyone who reads it will be able to correlate the activities of former Weather Underground members to their current status and how they are affecting national policy.

This book was a page turner. Once I began reading it, I couldn't put it down. As someone who witnessed the carnage that the Weather Underground wrought, when I was a police officer at one of the stations that they bombed, I can attest to it's accuracy.
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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a dim, dim, dim world... April 9, 2013
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Thanks God (and Kindle, naturally too) for the chance to read this most enlightening book - back in sixties we simply couldn't understand in the USSR, how any sane citizen of a free country can be on the side of Communists - Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese, Korean or any others. Our only guess was that probably these anti-war "heroes" were in fact the KGB paid agents, but, then again, we could hardly imagine the amount of money needed to buy such a lot of traitors from a wealthy country. Maybe, in some poor corner of Africa or Asia, but in America?! Is our KGB so fantastically rich? It was a genuine mystery for us not only then, but many decades later, after the fall of the USSR, too: there was not a single mention about any money given to all kinds of Hanoi Janes in our declassified Party archives, just expressions of the Central Committee's deep satisfaction. Now, thanks to Mr. Grathwohl's revelation, I know how naïve we were. It wasn't KGB who had to be that fantastically rich, it's the anti-war crowd who had to be that fantastically dim! Well, mea culpa: my and my friends' imagination was too limited, indeed, to fathom the degree of such "idealism". But, maybe, we can be excused: our experience of the loathsome Communist regime was very personal, while these brave new Americans knew absolutely nothing nor about mass shootings, neither about mass dire poverty here - and didn't wish to know! They were rebels for some rosy utopia, which existed only in their dim tender brains. In 1917 we had the same sad case of angry crowds of anti-war protesters and deserters, who betrayed their country for the ghost of Social Justice (to perish in GULAG, hard work brigades or endless revolutionary battles a few years later). Read more ›
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Weathermen Bombs vs. FBI Bake Sales April 5, 2013
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"Two, four, six, eight--now it's time to smash the state!" chanted the angry mob. One protestor climbed up a flagpole in front of the Justice Department. To the cheers and delight of the crowd, he cut down Old Glory and in its place raised a Viet Cong flag. Police fired tear gas. The mob chanted, "Tear the f***g state down!"

This was the so-called "March Against Death" in Washington, DC, on November 13, 1969. The chant was the rallying cry for the Weathermen, the violent terrorist group that instigated the riot and whose stated goal was to bring down America, replacing the constitutional republic with a totalitarian communist dictatorship.

Among the many young Americans they attempted to recruit was a student at the University of Cincinnati named Larry Grathwohl, who had recently completed his tour of duty as a paratrooper in Vietnam. The agitators' violent rhetoric compelled Grathwohl to contact the police. This led him to become a reluctant police informer and, later, the only FBI infiltrator in the history of the Weathermen who hadn't been purged by the paranoid communist fanatics.

As such, Grathwohl later testified before several federal grand juries and the U.S. Senate, and in 1976, together with Frank Reagan, wrote a book about his experiences with the murderous terrorists. Titled Bringing Down America, it details his personal interactions with Bill Ayers and other Weathermen leaders, who, after a botched 1970 police bust had revealed Grathwohl's identity, sentenced the young man to death for "crimes against the people."

A poster inside the underground Berkeley Tribe newspaper of the time displayed Larry's mugshot with the following description:

WANTED
for crimes against the people.

Larry Grathwohl.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars This man was a real patriot. Risking his life ...
This man was a real patriot. Risking his life for his country and barely any credit to his name for what he did. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mo Mentum
2.0 out of 5 stars Too many typos, too loose on facts
The book is entertaining enough and relatively informative. However, the ebook edition is replete with errors that definitely distract the reader and detract from the quality of... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Marcus T. Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars It's here
The Weathermen were a group of violent radicals in the 1970's who worked at "Bringing down America" using any violent means possible. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Wayne Lutz
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
Very interesting book about a transformative time in this country.The passive innocence of the 50's,to the free thinking activism of the 60's . Read more
Published 8 months ago by Nero&archie
4.0 out of 5 stars An insight into the mindset of leftists eager to destroy America
I found this very readable and certainly informative, even amusing in parts. The far left freaks of the 1960s hating America and wanting to destroy it, the 'Weather Underground'... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Joseph Bishop
5.0 out of 5 stars This should be required reading in our schools
Lived through these times and this book provides a look inside a destructive group of radicals who still wish America harm!
Published 9 months ago by Grams
5.0 out of 5 stars Worthwhile
I understand the author has passed away now but at the time I read the book, he was still alive. I had the pleasure of meeting him and hearing his story firsthand. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Diane Jaeckel
5.0 out of 5 stars Obama's close friends
You learn here the mind set of Obama's close friends in Chicago : the sociopaths Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Read more
Published 9 months ago by richard s
4.0 out of 5 stars “Bringing Down America”, an honest look inside a violent, Marxist...
In his book Bringing Down America, Larry Grathwohl relates his firsthand account of infiltrating the violent, Marxist group known as Weathermen. Read more
Published 10 months ago by NoRed1917
4.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening
It's easy to forget how violent the late 60s and early 70s were. This book had brought back to to mind why Bill Ayers was so dangerous.
Published 12 months ago by Christopher J. Saam
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