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.
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.







