Riverside Church Disarmament Program
The Riverside Church Disarmament Program is based in New York, NY, was formed in 1978 and is directed by Cora Weiss. It is a project of Riverside Church, a Communist front.[1]
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As at March, 1982, the RCDP's budget was $137,000. The project sponsors a major disarmament conference each November. Among the most noted Soviet participants has been Yuri Kapralov, nominally a counsellor at the Soviet Embassy and expert on military and disarmament affairs, who has been serving as Moscow's unofficial "ambassador" to the U.S. disarmament movement. It is noted that the Attorney General's guidelines on FBI security investigations prohibits monitoring of "religious" activities.
During Lent, RCDP sponsored weekly Wednesday night gatherings of disarmament activists who were taught "resistance, dangers of radiation, [and] the European Nuclear Disarmament movement." In cooperation with the MFS Religious Task-force led by Paul Mayer, RCDP is cosponsoring "Peace Sabbath" events [May 28-31] with CALC, FOR, Pax Christi and Sojourners.[1]
June 12 Disarmament Coalition
The Riverside Church Disarmament Program, led by Cora Weiss, played a leading role in the June 12 Disarmament Coalition organizing of a mass demonstration during SSD-II. The Zill report cited Weiss as saying $250,000 will be needed to organize a large, effective protest.[1]