into machine guns. We made explosives and grenades and silencers We took a couple of Browning pistols and converted them into full automatics . . . total killing machines for close-in assassination and murder.' He concluded by telling me that, as fas as he knew, many of the people and most of the weapons are still out there . . . 'waiting for the right time and moment — Maybe that time is coming soon. I'm out of the game, but plenty of the guys and gals are still in place, and so are their homemade machine guns . . . and, baby, they work,' he concluded. In addition to my independent verification of this man and his story, headlines support what he told me. For example, a Los Angeles Times story reported a seizure of silencers at the home of a man who was booked on illegal weapon possession charges. Police recovered 23 silencers in various stages of assembly, plus five more which he had attempted to sell to an undercover agent in an L. A. parking lot. Another story related seizure of 15 homicide machines in Glendale; six more turned up two months later. How many more are out there? The U.S. military had an unwilling hand in arming the fringe, too. Late in the summer of 1975, Les Aspin, a Wisconsin congressman, forced public disclosure of a document which had been classified 'Top Secret' for 'national security reasons.' The official Defense Department document reported that 'unknown persons' had stolen a total of 6,900 military firearms and 1.2 million rounds of ammunition over a three-year period alone. All of the thefts took place in the continental United States. That amount of arms and ammunition is enough to equip 10 battalions of troops. Asked if there was a similar situation in overseas commands, Pentagon officials told Aspin in public hearings, "We have no way of knowing." One former member of the Weather Underground, interviewed late in 1980, related, 'One of our brothers was a cor