irv rubin brushed off the attack saying -- in 2002 irv rubin died in jail while awaiting trial.alk about the wave of terror in the united states at the time. >> yes, i would like to talk about that because this is part of parcel the whole pattern in history that occurred. you have to remember the founder informant was an fbi in the 1950s. he used a pseudonym to infiltrate the john birch society and he was a paid informant for the fbi. he did not start the jdl until 1968. and from that time on, if one had a rap sheet, and i printed this out from the internet, over 20 pages of bombings and fire bombings, killings, etc. that were caring in the united states because the jdl -- that were occurring in the united states because the jdl became the shop roots of those were wanting to pressure the soviet union to reduc-- members --to jewish soviet jews to go to israel. out is what one of the principal things the jdl was doing. this had a large political resonance and the jdl got an enormous amount of support. they got a lot of money. they were able to fudge a lot of the criminal charges t