The United Freedom Front (UFF) was a radical U.S.-based left-wing organization which was responsible for a string of attacks in the late 1970s and 1980s. It went under the name of several aliases including the Armed Guerrilla Resistance Movement, Revolutionary Fighting Group, Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson group (its original name). During their trial, they were referred to as the "Ohio 7" by supporters. In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition...

The group was founded in 1974 by two Vietnam War veterans, Raymond Luc Levasseur and Tom Manning. The two first met in prison, where Levasseur was serving a sentence for drug dealing, and Manning for robbery. After their release, the two incorporated other members in to the UFF, mostly family members and close friends. Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... Born to a Boston postal clerk, Tom Manning is known for killing a police officer during a routine traffic stop, and for his involvement with leftist militants who bombed a series of US military and commercial institutes in the 1980s. ...

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From 1975 to 1984 the group committed several bank robberies and bombing attacks in the northeastern United States, including a November 1983 bombing of the United States United States Capitol, and a September 1984 bombing at the South African Consulate in New York. In addition, the UFF attacked the offices of Union Carbide (the chemical company responsible for the Bhopal disaster) and several other corporate targets. In all of the bombing attacks, callers from the UFF gave warning, and casualties were avoided. However, Manning and Richard Williams, another UFF member, were responsible for the 1981 murder of a New Jersey State Trooper at a traffic stop, the group’s only known inflicted casualty. The United States Capitol is the capitol building that serves as the location for the United States Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government. ... The rule of Napoleon Bonaparte after his coup detat in France had conducted the manners of French governmant under dictatorship and in a consulate. ... This article is about the state. ... Union Carbide Corporation (Union Carbide) is one of the oldest chemical and polymers companies in the United States, and currently has more than 3,800 employees. ... For other uses, see Bhopal (disambiguation). ... “NJ” redirects here. ...

On November 4th, 1984, FBI agents apprehended Levasseur and his common law wife, Patricia Gros, near Deerfield, Ohio. The remaining members of UFF were captured shortly after. In March 1986, seven members of the UFF, including Levasseur and Manning, were convicted on conspiracy charges related to the bombings, and sentenced to lengthy jail terms. Levasseur was released from prison in November, 2004, but other members, including Manning and Williams, remain in prison. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between natural persons to break the law at some time in the future, and, in some cases, with at least one overt act in furtherance of that agreement. ...

Legal Cases

USA v. Patricia Gros: 84-CR-0222 USA v. Raymond Luc Levasseur et al: 86-CR-180

Further Reference

• "Group Hit Other Targets, FBI Believes," Ronald Kessler, 11/09/1983, Washington Post
• "Case-Study of US Domestic Terrorism: United Freedom Front," Phillip Jenkins
• "After 13 Bombings, FBI Says Terrorists Remain a Mystery," Rick Hampson, 09/27/1984, AP