it really began in 1970 when bill davidon had a very powerful idea.oved from peace organization to peace organization that year, people kept telling him that they thought that this were spies in their midst. and he was not a believer in conspiracies, and he was not someone who speculated. as a physicist, he believed in the scientific method, and he really thought that people were perhaps imagining that, that people in the movement by that time had is such a seasons of lack of hope -- such a sense of lack of hope or depression really about what they felt was their failure to stop the war. and so he thought as he heard this more and more and from a greater variety of people, he decided i think this is true. and if it's true, if the government is officially suppressing dissent, this is a crime against democracy, and it's a crime that needs to be stopped. and in that idea was the origin of the question that he then asked ten people he met with individually in late 1970 and asked what do you think of burglarizing an fbi office? now -- [laughter] not a ques