Weather Underground bomber unmasked — as city schoolteacher

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NY Post:

Gary Buiso

March 29, 2015

 

 

The “bomb guru” for the terrorist group the Weather Underground never served a day in jail — but he did spend decades teaching in New York City classrooms, a new book reveals. Ronald Fliegelman built explosives for the Weather Underground, a far-left group that launched a domestic bombing campaign in the 1960s and ’70s, including one explosion inside NYPD headquarters.

 

But when the group dissolved, Fliegelman managed to safely fade away into the square life. For 25 years, he worked as a public special-education teacher, retiring to a quiet life in Park Slope, Brooklyn, according to “Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence” (Penguin Press).

And he’s unapologetic about his past, according to author Bryan Burrough. “Ron is proud of what he did,” he told The Post.

 

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“Without him,” former Weatherman Brian Flanagan tells Burrough, “there would be no Weather Underground.”

From then on, Fliegelman says, he built most of the group’s bombs, even jetting off to the San Francisco Bay Area to help members there.

“Maybe they did two or three things without me,” he tells Burrough. “But I doubt it.”

His first attack, in 1970, was the most nerve-racking. And why not? They were going inside NYPD headquarters.

 

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