Editing Weather Underground (section)

===Plot to bomb the office of a California State Senator===
In November 1977, five WUO members were arrested on conspiracy to bomb the office of California State Senator [[John Briggs (politician)|John Briggs]]. It was later revealed that the Revolutionary Committee and the PFOC had both been infiltrated by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] for almost six years. FBI agents Richard J. Gianotti and William D. Reagan lost their cover in November when federal judges needed their testimony to issue warrants for the arrest of [[Clayton Van Lydegraf]] and four Weather people. The arrests were the results of the infiltration.<ref name=g38>Gilbert 38</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Nation: Infiltrating the Underground
|newspaper= [[Time (magazine)|Time]]
|date= January 9, 1978 |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912056,00.html
|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091204151846/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912056,00.html
|archive-date= December 4, 2009
|access-date=December 26, 2009}}</ref> WUO members Judith Bissell, Thomas Justesen, Leslie Mullin, and Marc Curtis pleaded guilty while Van Lydegraf, who helped write the 1974 Prairie Fire Manifesto, went to trial.<ref>{{cite news |title= Radicals Admit Bomb Attempts |agency= Associated Press |newspaper= Spokane Daily Chronicle |date= December 20, 1978 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19781220&id=4MUSAAAAIBAJ&pg=6874,794947 |access-date= December 29, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Within two years, many members took advantage of President [[Jimmy Carter]]'s amnesty for draft dodgers by turning themselves in.{{sfn|Jacobs|1997}}{{Page needed|date=November 2024}} Mark Rudd turned himself into authorities on January 20, 1978. Rudd was fined $4,000 and received two years' probation.{{sfn|Jacobs|1997}}{{Page needed|date=November 2024}} Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers turned themselves in on December 3, 1980, in New York, with substantial media coverage. Charges were dropped for Ayers. Dohrn received three years' probation and a $15,000 fine.{{sfn|Jacobs|1997}}{{Page needed|date=November 2024}}