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~—— 7 a nm. as nunen bBY_ AL LMU Su . The call came to the FBI on Nov. 17. “In less than 24 heurs, the caller said, “there was to be an attempt to blow up ‘the Supreme Court of the United States. iHe said the plot was being hatched that very moment by five men in Akron. | The agent who answered the phone listened in disbelief, not sure if it was — .a crank or the volce of some demenied "person. The plot was real. But decisive action by the FBI prevented them from carry. ing it out. Here is how: Within hours of the Sunday call teams of agents had fanned out to several loca- tions in the Akron arca—one of them to the home of a rubber ~vorker-part time minister, another te a downtown motel. The agents were blunt and to the point. “WE'RE FROM THE FBI,” they said. “We have information that you may be involved in a plot to blow up the Su- preme Court.” Each man denied the charge, but it has been learned that a fragmentation gren- ade and metal parts that could beawused—— at it cK ~ Rea sans wey (Mount CHpping In Space Below) coer s How FBI Unit Here Smehed Plot to Bomb High d ~ . a 4 ~ # - i af ~ Cour ma mh mle a. 2-6 tam to HidBe aU locations. Sitl] not satisfied, the agents put on & ae wy ounG a fe were f bumper-to-bumper surveillance on each. of the alleged Plotters. Wherever -they went, an agent was right behind, Under constant vigilance, the .critical - hours passed and the eurveillance Was re- duced. THE Y, 8. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ce Cleveland, hoping to eliminate sny ee peration attempt to complete the plot, : subpenaed five men before the Federal Grand Jury last week. While the FBI and VU, S., Attorney Ber meee FA ard J. Stuplinski have refused com-. ment, The Press has managed to piece to- gether this sequence of events, Informed sources have confirmed it. No indict- ments were returned, but the investiga- -tion is continuing. , All five of the alleged plotters are re- ported to be, or have been, members of the Ku Klux Klan. The motive for their plot is believed to have been disenchant- ment with many of the liberal decisions of the High Court. . One of the men subpenaed ¥ was Donald Heath, a former Chicago policeman now. living in Milwaukee, who was dismissed from the Chicago force because of his at: tempts to organize a Klan group within - the department. OF THE OTHERS, three live in ‘Akron. One is the rubber-worker-part time min- ister. Another is a used car salesman. The third is unemployed. He is reported- -. ly the “hit man,” or the man who was to throw the bomb. The fifth man is a former Akron resi- dent now living in Milwaukee. The plot apparently called for one man to enter the visitor’s gallery of the court, throw either 2 homemade bomb or frag-- mentation grenade and then surr.ader ¢ ader or pt to escape on foot, puvevewe {Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) A4 THE CLEVELAND PRES (Cleveland, Ohio) Date: 12-27-68 Edition: Final Author: Editor: FHOMAS L. BOAR] Title: Character: or Classification: Supe Be e446 ie Cl Being Investigated lsd- 8 702- 29