The Monumental Plot: An Overview Of The 1965 Conspiracy To Destroy The Statue Of Liberty, Liberty Bell, And Washington Monument

摘要

On 16 February 1965 three Americans and one Canadian were arrested in connection with a plot to destroy three of the United States' most treasured monuments: the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell, and Washington Monument. The Americans - Robert Steele Collier, Walter Augustus Bowe, and Khaleel Sultran Sayyed - were part of a small extremist organization known as the Black Liberation Front (BLF). The Canadian, a white woman named Michelle Duclos, was a member of a Quebec separatist party. The quartet's ultimate motivation is unclear, and their plan was foiled in its early phases by an undercover New York patrolman named Raymond Wood who had infiltrated the group several months earlier. If not for the work of the NYPD, FBI, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the lives of a number of unsuspecting American tourists would have been in jeopardy.