Nuclear extortion threat against Boston, 1974

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I’d read about this years ago, and just recently stumbled across this:

Center for Defense Information

Anyone else know more about the incident? Did they ever catch the extortionist(s)? What sort of timetable did President Ford (who’d apparently only been in office for a few months) and his advisors have to respond to the threat? Pretty scary stuff.

[Measure_for_Measure]

Eh, happens all the time.

http://www.theweekmagazine.com/article.aspx?id=33

Between 1975 and 2000, NEST responded to about 125 calls. All but 30 were classified as hoaxes or unsubstantiated. The agency says that several of the others were blackmail attempts by people working in the nuclear industry, but will not provide any further details.