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===Activity in 1970=== On June 9, 1970, a bomb made with ten sticks of dynamite exploded in the [[240 Centre Street]] headquarters of the New York City Police Department. The explosion was preceded by a warning about six minutes prior to the detonation and was followed by a WUO claim of responsibility.<ref>{{cite book |title = The Weather Underground |year= 1975|publisher= US Government Printing Office |location= Washington, DC |pages= [https://archive.org/details/statedepartmentb00unit/page/n33 31]β32 |url= https://archive.org/details/statedepartmentb00unit |access-date=December 20, 2009}}</ref> On July 23, 1970, a Detroit federal grand jury indicted 13 Weathermen members in a national bombing conspiracy, along with several unnamed co-conspirators. Ten of the thirteen already had outstanding federal warrants.<ref>{{cite book |title = The Weather Underground. |year= 1975|publisher= US Government Printing Office |location= Washington DC |pages= [https://archive.org/details/statedepartmentb00unit/page/n33 32], 131β132 |url= https://archive.org/details/statedepartmentb00unit |access-date=December 20, 2009}}</ref> In September 1970, the group accepted a $20,000 payment from the largest international [[Psychedelic drugs|psychedelic drug]] distribution organization, called [[The Brotherhood of Eternal Love]], to break [[LSD]] advocate [[Timothy Leary]] out of a California prison in [[San Luis Obispo, California|San Luis Obispo]], north of [[Santa Barbara, California]],<ref name="The Weather Underground"/> and transport him and his wife to [[Algeria]], where Leary joined [[Eldridge Cleaver]]. In October 1970, [[Bernardine Dohrn]] was put on the [[FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 1970s|FBI's Ten Most Wanted List]].<ref>{{cite book |title = The Weather Underground. |year= 1975|publisher= US Government Printing Office |location= Washington D.C. |page= [https://archive.org/details/statedepartmentb00unit/page/n33 36] |url= https://archive.org/details/statedepartmentb00unit |access-date=December 20, 2009}}</ref>
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