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December 10th, 2007
03:42 pm - NORTHWEST LIBERATION FRONT: The police themselves named this organization as a case dossier
Thwart, Undermine, and Disrupt all Authority...
Dr. Frank Stearns Giese, a former World War Two US Navy Captain organized and financed an urban warfare cell in 1972-73 according to US Attorney Charles "Tugboat" Turner. Robert Patrick McSherry, the FBI's star witness, called Dr. Giese "the General." Frank Giese died August 6, 2006. There is something unusual about a planner and leader of major federal crimes getting probation by the Government???
McSherry was released on $500 bail when arrested and sentenced to Probation because various sentencing judges' felt his life would be endangered in prison. He was not put on the US Marshal Federal Witness Protection Program because he was promised Probation by the Alcohol Tobacco Firearms/Portland Police Intelligence when he was arrested. His wife, Debbie McSherry, mother of two pre-schoolers, cooperated with Portland Police Intelligence by telling them where to find her husband shortly before he was arrested.
Lynn B. Meyer was offered total immunity and no charges, except for the Seattle police shoot-out, if he replaced McSherry as a key Grand Jury witness. Lynn Meyer never tried to kill anyone! He thought the police officer was only injured with a shoulder injury when he was not! Meyer failed to cooperate with written and oral confessions within the three week deadline. Irving Paul Jr., Meyer's first lawyer, said of the proposed deal: "Fuck them! You only face 10 years in Portland while you face a life sentence for the Seattle police shoot-out."
McSherry plead guilty to all charges and did not get immunity from the state and federal Grand Juries he testified before.
Dr. Giese and the key employees at his Radical Education Project Collective Bookcenter organized into an urban warfare cell. The REP Bookstore was started by the Students for a Democratic Society in Chicago. The FBI claims the REP Chicago headquarters was directly connected to the Weather Underground.
Police surveillance files indicate that the US Treasury and Portland Police Intelligence agents took down license numbers outside the REP bookstore and followed some of the vehicles.
Dr. Giese was acquitted of driving the getaway vehicle at the US Army Recruiting Center bombing for lack of physical evidence. When he was the getaway driver he loaned his legally registered .38 to Lynn B. Meyer to chase off potential pedestrian witnesses. Giese's trial was disrupted by a bomb threat that caused the evacuation of the Portland US Courthouse.
The first major NLF military action occurred early December 1972 when the cell attempted to kidnap wealthy business leader, Ira Keller, and burn down his house. Mr. Keller wasn't at home when the gang kicked down his door and activated a loud burglar alarm. They fled in panic when confronted with a maid screaming in shock. The Civic Auditorium was renamed the Ira Keller Auditorium after his death.
The Allison & Carey Gunworks was robbed of weapons and ammunition shortly after the NLF bombed Army & Navy recruiting stations. The FBI showed up immediately after the gun store robbery with suspects' photos and a motive. The method of operation didn't give these clues to the local police investigating the crime scene. The victim, who had been tied up and gagged by the disguised bandits, identified one of the photos.
The large Country Kitchen restaurant, while crowded with diners, was robbed not long after the gunstore robbery. James Akers, Max Severin, Leslie McKeel, and Lynn Meyer were tipped off by a disgruntled employee of a $3,000 money transfer from the cashier to a backroom safe. Unforunately, the money was moved ten minutes early and the amount taken was only $350.00 Money, not politics, was the only motive. Robert McSherry, the government's star Grand Jury witness, was not involved so no one was charged with the Country Kitchen robbery.
Robert Patrick McSherry's handwritten plans for the gunstore heist were found by agents in a garbage can. The gang's motive for the bank robberies was that the government's insurance losses helped finance the revolution. Proceeds from the Menlo Park bank robbery went directly into the purchases of M-1s under the watchful eyes of federal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. This bank robbery and others were not authorized and occured during a period of "suspended operations" that was agreed to with Dr. Giese. Only James Wesley Akers and Lynn B. Meyer followed orders and kept low profiles at the Seattle safehouse.
Public knowledge of the cell's existence occurred on February 13, 1973 when Lynn B. Meyer and Seattle Police Officer Clarence Issiah Enault Jr. both emptied their revolvers in a shootout. Even though they were less than a foot apart neither suffered injuries. Meyer was handcuffed behind his back and Enault was caught by surprise due to an inadequate body search. Julius L. Mattson, Special FBI Agent, was investigating the NLF prior to its discovery by Portland Police Intelligence. Agent Mattson died June 7, 2005. Portland Police Intelligence began surveillance operations on NLF members in mid-January 1973.
NLF cell members fled from the burning Seattle safe house in Ballard 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. The FBI claimed this bomb was to be used to sabotage a Ft. Lawton communications tower. An FBI document said they had a photograph of Lynn B. Meyer in January 1973 using a tape measure at the Ft. Lawton tower prior to his arrest. Meyer was advised by his lawyer to remain silent on the issue because all the FBI had was circumstantial evidence. Robert McSherry, the Government's star Grand Jury witness, wasn't directly involved.
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.
Dr. Giese served 6 months of a 30 month sentence for Conspiracy. He was convicted because his and three of his co-defendants fingerprints were all in a book found at a gang hideout: "From the Movement Toward Revolution." written by Venceremos leader, Bruce Franklin. $1200 was traced from him to one of his bookstore employees: James Wesley Akers who used the money to lease the Seattle Ballard safe house from a group of active soldiers stationed at Ft. Lawton. Akers constructed and planted the time bombs at the military recruiting centers in January 1973 not long after he was discharged from the US Army.
Lynn B. Meyer (aka Ronald James Scheller) and former Portland State University French professor, Dr. Frank Stearns Giese, were both among those convicted of Federal Conspiracy in the January 1973 dynamite time bombings of Navy & Army recruiting stations. James Wesley Akers, Chester Benson Wallace, James Arthur Cronin, and Robert Patrick McSherry were also convicted of the bombings.
Meyer's defense attorney was Michael H. Rosen, former director of the Washington chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. Lynn B. Meyer served 6 years/2 months in a Washington prison. Rosen successfully defended Weather Underground member Leslie Bacon in the US Capitol Building bombing case. He died April 19, 2005 of Parkinson's Disease at age 67.
In February 1970 there were anti-military recruiting demonstrations at PSU that were watched by men in suits representing 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 this warning.
Maureen Gray, Ileana Fenyo (wife of professor Fenyo), and Lynn B. Meyer forcibly escorted the two Navy recruiters down the stairwell. Dan Wolf assisted by opening the front door of the Smith Memorial Center.
These four students (PSU Four) were kicked out of the college for "violating student protest guidelines". About 36 restraining orders were also issued by County Circuit Court. Sixteen students, including Lynn B. Meyer, were named in this restraining order. Twenty others were identified as John & Jane Doe. Meyer was also a suspect in the May 20 (National Strike Day) firebombing of the PSU Placement Office where US Army recruiters were scheduled to work. They cancelled due to the emergency in the building.
The Students for a Democratic Society headed this 1970 anti-military recruiting demonstration with strong backup support from the Students Mobilization Committee. The SDS was the more militant of the two groups. The SMC did not officially condone the violence of the SDS but was behind their actions to forcibly remove the two US Navy recruiters from the campus as a desperate attempt to draw a public forum on the issue. The mainstream media had come to the protest but quickly left with their hands down saying: "Nothing going on here!"
The forcible ejection of the recruiters was a publicity stunt. It was cleared through the SDS lawyer, Donald Chambers, and approved by the SDS faculty advisor, Gary Waller (who received a reprimand). Press coverage of this February 1970 demonstration evolved from media indifference to major headline news for an entire week provoking a major public forum throughout the City of Portland.
FBI files indicate that their paid informers at the 1970 demonstration knew nothing about the 1973 military recruiting station bombings. The FBI interviewed these informants immediately after the bombings. Professor Frank Giese funded the Seattle NLF hideout in early January 1973 after he claimed that one of his former French language students told him that the FBI had visited participants of the 1970 PSU anti-recruiting student protests. Only paid informers at the 1970 protests were contacted by the FBI. Professor Giese did not identify the alleged student. Dr. Giese was not involved in any way with the well publicized February 1970 anti-military recruiting demonstration at PSU.
The US Attorney General ordered the FBI Director to release 3500 pages of Lynn B. Meyer's file under the Freedom of Information Act in 1977. Clarence Kelly personally denied to release any of the files but was overruled. The FBI went to Meyer's parents house shortly after the bombings. His parents did not know his whereabouts, according to FBI files, and said he was extremely secretive about his business and whom he knew.
Lynn B. Meyer was the only NLF member to avoid Portland Police Intelligence surveillance. They claim they didn't know he was involved until his arrest for a Seattle police shootout. However, he was a prime FBI suspect in the bombings before the Portland Police Intelligence even detected the urban warfare cell through routine criminal investigation. The City of Portland is often left out of FBI investigations. That was one of the reasons they dropped out of the FBI Terrorism Task Force in 2005.
Dr. Frank Giese was already under investigation by Portland Police Intelligence before the creation of the Northwest Liberation Front for his role in the Calvin Dow Defense Committee according to police records. A December 1972 police 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 "Larry" Meyer. The informer's info was a year outdated unless the memo date of 1972 was a typo. Dr. Giese was approved by the State Police to be a prison volunteer worker in early 1972. Portland Prisoner Support was approved by the warden, G.E. Sullivan, and advertised in the prison newspaper, Oscillator, in March 1972.
Professor Giese was originally on the prison-visiting list of Lynn B. Meyer and later replaced by Susan Louise Stoner as his Portland Prisoner Support contact. Stoner said she was a leader in the Patriot Party. She was the only NLF member not charged with a crime. Police files indicate that her house was under constant surveillance. She drove one of the getaway cars at the US Navy bombing. Portland Vietnam Veterans Against the War leader, James Arthur Cronin, was convicted of driving the second getaway vehicle.
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. None of the ex-cons involved in the crimes had been in Dr. Giese's psychological services seminars at the Oregon Correctional Institution. Severin and Meyer did meet him at a Catholic Priest's political seminar where different members of the community came every week. An ex-CIA agent, who used being a blind US Ambassador to Africa as a cover, was the guest not long before Dr. Giese.
The medical tent at the May 1970 PSU Student Strike was attacked by the Portland Police Riot Squad who gave head concussions to many of the students who were peacefully sitting in front of the tent. Maureen Gray, one of the PSU Four, was pictured in local newspapers with severely bandaged skull injuries. She later became one of the leaders of the Peoples Army Jamboree.
One still wonders if the 1970 bombing of the Liberty Bell at Portland City Hall was in revenge for the Nazi-like goose-stepping club wielding behavior of the police against the students operating the medical tent in the South Park Blocks at the PSU Student Strike.
NORTHWEST LIBERATION FRONT Websites:
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![[User Picture]](http://www.livelogcity.com/userpic/1476/2137) | From:  copkiller11 |
Date: May 8th, 2005 - 02:22 am |
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 Seattle Police Shoot-out Mistrial
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Mistrail 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.
![[User Picture]](http://www.livelogcity.com/userpic/1477/1502) | From: copkiller |
Date: March 26th, 2006 - 12:23 am |
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 NLF Used For Counterintelligence Police Training
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![[User Picture]](http://www.livelogcity.com/userpic/1475/4478) | From: courier007 |
Date: June 13th, 2005 - 05:46 pm |
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 Manual Seized by FBI from Northwest Liberation Front
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