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Keith Forsyth

Released
Date of birth:15. 03. 1950
Age:76
Gender:Male
Era:1970s
State:Pennsylvania
Time Imprisoned:
16 Days
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Keith Forsyth

Biography

Keith Forsyth, from Marion, Ohio, was the Camden group's skilled lock picker, twenty-two at the indictment. He had attended the College of Wooster, moved to Philadelphia, drove a cab and was active in the October 4th Organization in Kensington. He was also one of the burglars who entered the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania in March 1971 and exposed the COINTELPRO files, a role he revealed publicly in 2014. In the Camden case he was severed from the main trial and his charges were dismissed after the May 1973 acquittals. He later earned engineering degrees and became an engineer.

Case

Charges: Conspiracy and destruction of Selective Service records
Arrested: Aug 22, 1971
Incarcerated: Aug 22, 1971
Released: Sep 7, 1971
Sentence: Never tried. Severed from the seventeen-defendant trial; the charges were dismissed after the jury acquitted all seventeen on May 20, 1973. The FBI individual custody record documents release on September 7, 1971. Source: FBI Camden/MEDBURG file NW68262 DocId32989529, p. 73.
Convicted: No