IV. Apprenticeship with Foundation-Funded Terrorists: Ayers and Dohrn 139Electrical Workers. He served on many boards, including that of G.D. Searle, Chicago Pacific
Corp., Zenith Corp., Northwest Industries, First National Bank of Chicago and Tribune Co., owner
of the Chicago Tribune. He worked with many nonprofits, serving as the chair of the Chicago
Urban League, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Chamber of Commerce and Industry,
Chicago United, Community Renewal Society and the Chicago Community Trust. Extremely
important is Ayers’ status as a member of the board of General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, one of
the largest US defense contractors.^34 This role by itself is enough to certify that Thomas Ayers was
a high-level member of the US intelligence community. Thomas Ayers can be regarded as a civic
leader and trend setter of the upper crust of Chicago society, a high-level political fixer who was
comfortable hob-nobbing with bankers, top executives, trade union bureaucrats, gangsters, and
finally with terrorists like his son.
One of the remarkable things about the Weatherman faction was that so many of its leaders were
the sons and daughters of the US ruling class, and especially of those with obvious links into the
intelligence community, be it through the OSS, the CIA, or the foundations. One always wondered:
were these protofascist anarchists simply acting out their own personal Oedipal rebellions against
mommy and daddy? There is ample evidence of this in Ayers hyper-Oedipal “kill your parents”
outburst. But, at the same time there was always the suspicion that there might be something more
going on: were these spoiled little elitists being sent into the student movement to do a stage before
they moved on to some cushier form of employment, perhaps in the family business? A few of them
ended up dead or serving life terms in prison, but a military career would be no less risky. So there
is always the lingering suspicion that such an internship might have been what some of their parents
had in mind at the beginning.
Believe it or not, the foundation-funded left CIA (or left FBI, as the case may be) has taken care
of Bill Ayers so well that he is now a tenured professor of education at Northern Illinois University.
He may have gone from throwing bombs to tampering with the minds of defenseless young
students, but his program remains the same: to provoke an all-out race war in the United States. As
Steve Diamond has commented on noquarterusa.net, ‘Since the days of Weather Underground,
Ayers has advocated a viewpoint that argues that the fundamental issue in American life is “white
skin privilege” – that white Americans benefit from being white at the expense of blacks. As Ayers’
wife Bernardine Dohrn wrote in the introduction to a 2002 book she co-authored with Ayers and
their fellow Weather Underground veteran Jeff Jones: “One cannot talk separately about class,
gender, culture, immigration, ethnicity, or biology without being intertwined with race, as Katrina
and the systematic destruction of a major black U.S. city re-informs us. We were waking up [in the
late 1960s]. What to do once we had knowledge of the dimensions of white skin privilege? How to
destroy white supremacy? Well, that is another matter. And as burning today as it was then.”’
Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jeff Jones, Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry,
Statements, and Communiqués of the Weather Underground 1970 – 1974 (New York: Seven Stories
Press, 2006).
AYERS: “I DON’T REGRET SETTING BOMBS.
I FEEL WE DIDN’T DO ENOUGH”
“‘I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said [to the New York Times]. “I feel we didn’t do
enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in
the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The
long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on