Biography
Paul Kabat was an Oblate Catholic priest, the brother of Carl Kabat, and a participant with Carl, Larry Cloud-Morgan and Helen Woodson in the November 1984 Silo Pruning Hooks action at missile site N5 in Missouri. He was detained before trial and convicted of sabotage, property destruction, conspiracy and military-site trespass. His original ten-year sentence was later reduced; the movement chronology reports forty months plus four years probation after the reduction. The official federal locator identifies Paul Kabat, 03229-045, with a March 16, 1987 custody endpoint, corroborating the movement's report of March 1987 release. Eight years was Cloud-Morgan's original sentence, not Paul's, and a claimed 1989 release is not retained.
Silo Pruning Hooks: individual sentence and official endpoint
The original appellate opinion, 797 F.2d 580, distinguishes Paul's two consecutive five-year terms from Cloud-Morgan's eight-year total. Its opening narrative gives November 9, 1984, while its reproduced jury instruction refers to on or about November 12. The movement chronology's Silo Pruning Hooks section dates the action and initial detention to November 12, sentencing to March 27, 1985, and Paul's later release to March 1987 following a sentence reduction. The unresolved initial-day discrepancy is disclosed with month precision and November 9–12 bounds. The authorized official BOP lookup returns Paul Kabat, 03229-045, age 94, with a March 16, 1987 custody endpoint. That endpoint corroborates the movement release report, not the earlier profile's 1989 claim. Existing portrait retained; no later episode or exact served-day total is manufactured.
February 1985 verdict and contemporary custody limits
The original trial report individually identifies Helen Woodson, Paul and Carl Kabat, and Larry Cloud-Morgan, and dates their guilty verdict on all counts to Friday, February 22, 1985. They remained in jail pending a March 25 sentencing date that was still future; it is not entered as the actual sentencing day. This account dates the N-5 action to November 12, while the previously reviewed appellate opinion’s opening narrative gives November 9 and its quoted jury instruction says on or about November 12. The conflict is preserved rather than silently moving existing arrest/admission dates. Paul’s separately documented actual March 27 sentence and official later endpoint are unchanged; this source’s forecast does not overwrite them.
The Nuclear Resister No.29, February 27, 1985, original PDF pages 2,6.
