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Dr.Frank Stearns Giese died August 6, 2006.

He was the proprietor of the two story Radical Education Project Bookcenter in Portland's Goose Hollow. The bookstore's basement was regularly rented for meetings by an assortment left wing aboveground organizations, including the Communist Party USA.

He was well liked by his French language students at Portland State University.

Police surveillance files indicate that the US Treasury and Portland Police Intelligence agents took down license numbers outside the Ph.D. professor's bookstore and followed vehicles when they left while investigating the bombings. The FBI watched the Communist Party USA regularly.

The Federal trial of Dr. Giese was disrupted with a bomb threat that caused the entire US District Courthouse to be evacuated. This Harvard educated professor was found guilty of conspiracy to dynamite two US military recruiting stations. His fingerprints were found on a book at a hideout used by bookstore employees and former state prison inmates.

Before these two private buildings, leased by the US Army and US Navy, were bombed there was an attempt to break down the door of Ira Keller's residence. The burglar alarm went off and a maid screamed in panic. Ira Keller was a leading Portland real estate investor and the founder of a grocery paper bag factory. The Civic Auditorium and nearby Four Courts Fountain were renamed after him when he died.

The Allison & Carey Gunworks was robbed of weapons and ammunition shortly after the bombings. The legendary Country Kitchen restaurant was held up while crowded with diners. Some of them may have been trying to completely devour a 72 ounce steak to get it for free.

Robert Patrick McSherry's handwritten plans for the gunstore heist were found by agents in a garbage can. ATF and Portland Police Intelligence watched the Menlo Park bank robbery but did not interfere.

Portland Police Intelligence began surveillance operations on NLF members in mid-January 1973 after getting substantial information from a buyer of a stolen pistol taken from the gunstore robbery.

James Wesley Akers, bomb maker, reported a break-in of his inner NE Albina District second story flat where his saxophone was stolen shortly before the bombings. Police Detectives red flagged him because his pick-up truck was registered to the head of the Chicago Communist Party USA.

Dr. Giese' stepdaughter, Leslie Ann McKeel, and others fled from a burning Seattle safe house in Seattle's Ballard district on February 14, 1973. They left with machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, and a cache of pistols taken from the gun store heist. Left behind was a 68-stick dynamite time bomb wired for detonation.

US Army Intelligence shredded their records on the case in 1977 after receiving strong objections from the Seattle Police Criminal Intelligence Unit who did not want their own counterintelligence methods reviewed by a Federal judge in a pending Freedom of Information Act appeal.

Professor Giese served a 30 month sentence in a Fedaral Prison after his appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court.

Coincidently, during February 1970, there were anti-military recruiting demonstrations at PSU that was under surveillance by the FBI and Portland Police Intelligence. Two US Navy recruiters were surrounded by at least twenty students and forced out of the room where they were working. At the top of the stairs Campus Security gave the protestors a stern warning. Most heeded and withdrew from the front lines.

Four did not. The Navy recruiters were then forcibly removed from the Student Union building.

They were suspended for one year from the college for "violating student protest guidelines". 36 restraining orders were issued by County Circuit Court.

FBI files indicate that their paid informers at these 1970 demonstrations knew nothing about the 1973 military recruiting station bombings. The FBI interviewed these informants immediately after the recruiting stations were dynamited.

An investigation by Portland Police Intelligence on Dr. Giese started before the bombings for his financial donation to the Patriot Party's Calvin Dow Defense Committee according to police records.

A 1972 memo said an informant reported that Dr. Giese had formed the Portland Prisoner Support and his contact at the OSCI prison was a "Larry" Meyer. Portland Police Intelligence asked the Oregon State Police to investigate his background but they did not find an inmate listed at OSCI by that name. Dr. Giese was approved by the State Police to be a prison volunteer in OSCI Psychological Services. Portland Prisoner Support was approved by the warden, G.E. Sullivan, and advertised in the prison newspaper, Oscillator, in March 1972.

US Attorney Charles Turner accused Dr. Giese of indoctrinating prisoners against the Nixon government by showing popular radical documentaries and bestselling New Left books from his Radical Education Project Bookcenter. The warden, G.E. Sullivan, approved all of these materials.


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