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Article: Civil Disobedience at the CIA
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 3, 1987
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Predawn risers were seeing the sun come up on a history-making
moment: the first time citizens in large numbers would commit civil
disobedience at the CIA. Dissident-patriots from Martin Luther King
Jr. to Daniel Berrigan have broken the law everywhere else-from
courthouses to bomb factories-to protest the government's violence.
This Monday morning, at last, it was the CIA, America's dark hive of
covert death planning.
Arrests began at 7 a.m. The pace of crime-stopping was slow. At
the south gate the Fairfax County police, equipped with clubs and
Mace, readied for the worst but not the obvious. They parked paddy
wagons 100 yards away from the protesters blocking the roadway. ...