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 of 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 the Seattle 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. The FBI showed up shortly after the robbery with five photos and a motive. One of the photos was identified by the victim. 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. He was seen at the REP Bookcenter while under constant FBI surveillance until his plane departure back to Chicago. Akers bought the truck after seeing an ad posted on the bookstore's bulletin board. Both bombs used in the recruiting center bombings were made by Akers who requested needed direct tutoring by Lynn B. Meyer in order to make them. The 80% high powered dynamite sticks and blasting caps were brand new.
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. This bomb was made of extremely outdated 30% dynamite sticks and lacked very little explosive power.
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.
Lynn Meyer, Dan Wolf, Maureen Gray, and Ilenya Fenyo were suspended for one year from the college for "violating student protest guidelines". 36 restraining orders were issued by County Circuit Court. Dr. Giese was a character witness at the Student Faculty Hearing Committee even though those found guilty did not know him. He testified that students were justified in their actions because of the "evils of US Imperialism."
FBI files indicate that their paid informers, who became active in 1970, knew nothing about the 1973 military recruiting station bombings. The FBI interviewed these informants immediately after the recruiting stations were dynamited. They were certain students were not involved or they would know about it. One informant made a subterfuge call to Dr. Giese telling him that the FBI were going to interview everyone involved in the 1970 anti-recruiting center bombings. This made him fear that Lynn B. Meyer was a serious threat to his organization since he knew too much. James Akers disagreed and said that Meyer was the only member that had his shit together.
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. Susan Stoner, an unindicted bombing co-conspirator, was second in command of the Patriot Party. She was a full time REP Bookcenter employee and drove a visitors van for Portland Prisoner Support.
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 (most shown on PBS) and bestselling New Left books from his Radical Education Project Bookcenter and J.K. Gills bookstore. The warden, G.E. Sullivan, approved all of these materials.
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Seattle Police Shoot-out MistrialMistrail Declared In Slaying Bid Case
By Craig Smith, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 04-07-1973
A mistrial was declared yesterday in the first degree assault trial of Lynn Bruce Meyer, 23, accused of attempting to kill Seattle policeman Issiah Enault, Jr.
Superior Court Judge Norman Ackley declared the mistrial after deputy prosecutor Corydon Nelsen told him the prosecutor's office thought there were grounds for reversal on appeal because of a statement the judge made to the jury Thursday.
Judge Ackley had told the jurors then that they would be sequestered during the trial because newspapers would be carrying testimony from a pretrial hearing that had been ruled inadmissible for the trial.
The judge had said in the jury's presence:
"If the members of the jury learned about it, (the suppressed evidence) or heard about it, or happen to learn about it, or inadvertently read about it, it would prejudice the rights of the defendant."
Defense attorney Irving Paul, Jr. had moved to discharge the jury Thursday after the judge made that remark. Paul said jurors would automatically assume the state had more evidence that it was presenting. The motion was denied then.
The suppressed evidence was the statement made by Patrolman Charles Ray during Wednesday's pretrial hearing. Ray testified that when he arrived at the scene of the shootout he spontaneously asked Meyer why he had tried to shoot Enault.
Ray testified that Meyer said, "Well, you fascist pigs deserve to die. I'm sorry I missed this time. I won't miss next time."
For reasons of legal maneuvering, neither the prosecutor nor defense attorney would introduce the motion for a mistrial yesterday, so Ackley declared the mistrial "on the court's own motion."
Meyer, who says his real name is Ronald James Scheller, is identified by police as an escapee from a Portland corrections program and an occupant of a Ballard house where 68 sticks of dynamite were found Feb.14.
Meyer was on trial in Ackley's court on charges that on Feb. 13 he stole a car and then tried to shoot Patrolman Enault.
Judge Ackley yesterday granted a motion by Paul to be relieved of the case. Paul said the defendant could be represented by "someone who is more sympathetic to his political views." The defendant and the United Front for Political Defense Committee have asked three times that Paul, one of the city's better known criminal defense lawyers, be replaced.
Judge Ackley denied a motion by Paul yesterday to reduce Meyer's bail from $100,000 to $2,500. Paul said the defendant's supporters believed they could raise the lesser amount -- although he noted that Meyer still faces an escape charge in Oregon and a Seattle District Court hearing on a fugitive warrant based on that charge.
A new trial isn't expected to take place for weeks.
Note: After the resignation of Irving Paul Jr., Meyer retained former ACLU lawyer Michael H. Rosen to represent him on all charges.
By Craig Smith, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 04-07-1973
A mistrial was declared yesterday in the first degree assault trial of Lynn Bruce Meyer, 23, accused of attempting to kill Seattle policeman Issiah Enault, Jr.
Superior Court Judge Norman Ackley declared the mistrial after deputy prosecutor Corydon Nelsen told him the prosecutor's office thought there were grounds for reversal on appeal because of a statement the judge made to the jury Thursday.
Judge Ackley had told the jurors then that they would be sequestered during the trial because newspapers would be carrying testimony from a pretrial hearing that had been ruled inadmissible for the trial.
The judge had said in the jury's presence:
"If the members of the jury learned about it, (the suppressed evidence) or heard about it, or happen to learn about it, or inadvertently read about it, it would prejudice the rights of the defendant."
Defense attorney Irving Paul, Jr. had moved to discharge the jury Thursday after the judge made that remark. Paul said jurors would automatically assume the state had more evidence that it was presenting. The motion was denied then.
The suppressed evidence was the statement made by Patrolman Charles Ray during Wednesday's pretrial hearing. Ray testified that when he arrived at the scene of the shootout he spontaneously asked Meyer why he had tried to shoot Enault.
Ray testified that Meyer said, "Well, you fascist pigs deserve to die. I'm sorry I missed this time. I won't miss next time."
For reasons of legal maneuvering, neither the prosecutor nor defense attorney would introduce the motion for a mistrial yesterday, so Ackley declared the mistrial "on the court's own motion."
Meyer, who says his real name is Ronald James Scheller, is identified by police as an escapee from a Portland corrections program and an occupant of a Ballard house where 68 sticks of dynamite were found Feb.14.
Meyer was on trial in Ackley's court on charges that on Feb. 13 he stole a car and then tried to shoot Patrolman Enault.
Judge Ackley yesterday granted a motion by Paul to be relieved of the case. Paul said the defendant could be represented by "someone who is more sympathetic to his political views." The defendant and the United Front for Political Defense Committee have asked three times that Paul, one of the city's better known criminal defense lawyers, be replaced.
Judge Ackley denied a motion by Paul yesterday to reduce Meyer's bail from $100,000 to $2,500. Paul said the defendant's supporters believed they could raise the lesser amount -- although he noted that Meyer still faces an escape charge in Oregon and a Seattle District Court hearing on a fugitive warrant based on that charge.
A new trial isn't expected to take place for weeks.
Note: After the resignation of Irving Paul Jr., Meyer retained former ACLU lawyer Michael H. Rosen to represent him on all charges.
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Manual Seized by FBI from Northwest Liberation FrontThe following book was used as evidence to prove motive:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marighella-carlos/1969/06/minimanual-urban-guerrilla
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marighella-carlos/1969/06/minimanual-urban-guerrilla
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