Matthew Landy Steen (born August 22, 1949) is a former member of Weather Underground Organization, Students for a Democratic Society and Yippies, a New Left activist and editor of Berkeley Tribe in the 1960s. In 1972 he was indicted on federal conspiracy and bank robbery charges to finance radical leftist Weatherman activities, sentenced to a ten-year federal prison term and became the first member of the Weather Underground imprisoned in the United States. He was later found to be a target of COINTELPRO’s illegal federal campaign to disrupt New Left anti-war and militant black organizations, as subsequently revealed by the Watergate burglaries, the Church Committee in 1974 and the break-ins at Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) offices in Media, Pennsylvania and Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1971.
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