Part I--Mon., Jan. 26, 1976 Los Angeles Times * Former FBI Informer Describes Role With Right-Wing Terrorist Groups Continued from 15th Page Miss O'Connor, her twin sister, Mavourneen, who was the center's coordinator; the bank's chairman at the time, Bob Peterson, and city officials, including Mayor Pete Wilson. It gave phone numbers, addresses and license numbers of some supporters. "We got threats by telephone on our lives," said Councilwoman O'Connor of herself and her sister. "Our lives were pure hell for a year and a half." She said the threats forced them to move to a new apartment, but SAO stickers appeared on their cars and apartment door. "Our roommate had a green Chevy," she said, "and one night there was a fire It was a green Chevy, but the wrong one. We were most definitely frightened." San Diego was picked as the Republican convention site in July, 1971, but party leaders in May, 1972, decided to move it to Miami. For the 10 months during which it was slated for San Diego, law enforcement officials watched as both the left and right planned protests and counter-protests. The most serious act was a planned attack by the SAO on Nixon that Godfrey reported to his FBI superiors. He explained the SAO felt Nixon was too liberal in his moves to restore relations with the Communist Chinese. "They (the SAO) were talking about firing 81-mm mortar rounds into the San Diego Sports Arena while Nixon was speaking," Godfrey said. "The same man who was going to give us the two 81-mm mortar rounds was going to give us a 60-mm mortar and 60 hand grenades." It was about this time that Godfrey wanted out of the informant business. "Things were getting carried away where there were more and more activities with t things compounding, more and more violence starting to : show. Within the group there were more and more violent tendencies," he said. He said he was getting frightened for his safety and his wife was unhappy because "we were keeping explosives in the back room of my house. At one time we had 50 to 60 pounds of explosives in the back bedroom." He said he told his contact agent, Steve Christianson, that he wanted out, that he wanted the FBI to protect 'It was my decision to hide the gun. I don't think I did anything morally wrong.' him and asked the agency to relocate him in another city., "But they wanted to use me in the convention and told me if I got out, I was on my own, they wouldn't protect me or relocate me. They had me over a barrel," Godfrey said. Christianson, contacted at his Utah home, corroborated this. "The FBI imposed on him (Godfrey)," Christianson said. "They wouldn't let him out. He desperately wanted to get out of that situation . .. They (FBI) were going to use Godfrey during the convention. He was a valuable man." (When Godfrey finally testified against the SAO, it was the San Diego Police Department and not the FBI that relocated Godfrey, according to former Police Chief Ray Hoobler.) In the preconvention period, San Diego leftists formed the Convention Coalition. One prominent member was a San Diego State College professor, Peter Bohmer, a Marxist economist. In early January, 1972, the SAO targeted Bohmer for harassment. He was the subject of an SAO bulletin that suggested someone "deal with this red scum." Bohmer received threatening phone calls and SAO stickers were left on his college office door and at h his Ocean Beach home. On Jan. 6, shots were fired into Bohmer's home and a young woman, Paula Tharp, was wounded in her right elbow. Her assailant, George Mickey Hoover, who was convicted and d served time in prison for the shooting, was a passenger in a car driven by Godfrey. (Bohmer and Tharp have since filed a $10.6 million lawsuit naming Godfrey, Nixon and 57 other defendants, charging government and law enforcement officials violated the pair's civil rights through counterintelligence moves aimed at destroying the New Left.) Godfrey said he and Hoover stole the gun used in the Tharp shooting in an earlier burglary. Jan. 7, Godfrey said he gave the gun to Christianson, assuming the FBI would tell the police and Hoover would be arrested, forcing an end to his informant career. Not so. Christianson took the gun home and hid it under his couch, where it remained for six months. "He told me he hid it to protect me because of the convention, because he couldn't afford to lose me. He was getting pressure from work to preserve me," Godfrey said. Christianson, who lost his job as a result of the gun incident, corroborated Godfrey's tale. "I was instructed it was imperative to preserve Godfrey," he said. "It was my own decision to hide the gun I don't think I did anything morally wrong." He said his possession of the weapon "was not that secretive" around the local office. An FBI spokesman in Washington, D.C., said, "There was no instruction we're aware of to Christianson 1 to keep the gun." Christianson said that at all times, "officials inside and outside the police department were kept informed of Godfrey and SAO activities." But the police department's former chief and members of the San Diego district attor- ney's office claim the FBI hindered the investigation into the shooting. "We had no evidence to localize on any particular suspect, no evidence to identify a suspect," said Hoobler. "They (FBI) had the evidence. They knew we were investigating. We spent 500 man-hours investigating the shooting . ... not having the total information for a six-month period severely limited our bringing a suspect to justice." A district attorney's spokesman said, "Homicide detail broke their backs trying to investigate that case. They were told explicitly that the informer was not available, that they could not interview him or have his identity." Clark Brown, former assistant agent in charge of the San Diego FBI office, denied the FBI obstructed the police investigation. "We gave officers investigating the case all the information we had ... and we said we would reveal the informer only if they couldn't establish a case without him," he said. The first break in the shooting case came in June, 1972, when SAO member Frank Yakopec bombed an adult movie theater. He bought the explosives through his friend and next door neighbor- Howard Godfrey. "Yakopec and I did mutual work on incendiary devices," Godfrey said. "We never worked on high explosives. We had manuals we were making the stuff from. We followed the recipe together." 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