291: John Morrison – Animal Liberation Front, University Firebombing

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Retired agent John Morrison reviews an ecoterrorism case involving a member of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) who firebombed the mink research offices and destroyed laboratory facilities at Michigan State University in 1992. The subject of the investigation, Rodney Coronado, was also responsible for the arson and destruction of mink research facilities at Washington State and Oregon State Universities. Coronado pleaded guilty for the Michigan State University crimes, the first federal conviction of an admitted ALF member. John Morrison served in the FBI for 28 years.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 291 of FBI Retired Case File Review with Jerry Williams.
0:12.7	I'm a retired agent on a mission to show you who the FBI is and what the FBI does through
0:19.2	my books, my blog and my podcast case reviews with former colleagues.
0:24.0	Today we get to speak to retired agent John Morrison, who served in the FBI for 28 years.
0:31.6	In this episode, he reviews an eco-terrorism case involving a member of the Animal Liberation
0:39.0	Front, also known as ELF, who fire bombed the Make Research Offices and destroyed laboratory
0:46.3	facilities at Michigan State University in 1992.
0:51.5	According to Wikipedia, ELF is an international, leaderless, decentralized, resistance movement
0:58.9	that advocates and engages in direct action to protest incidents of animal cruelty.
1:05.5	The subject of John Morrison's investigation, Rodney Coronado, was also responsible for
1:12.4	the arson and destruction of Make Research facilities at Washington State and Oregon State
1:18.9	Universities. Coronado pleaded guilty for the Michigan State University crimes, the first
1:24.8	federal conviction of an admitted ELF member.
1:29.0	John's first bureau assignment was to the Buffalo Division where he worked counterintelligence
1:34.4	in criminal matters and spent one year undercover on a counterintelligence case.
1:39.7	The FBI then transferred John to the Detroit Division at the Lansing Resident Agency where
1:45.8	he worked on the ELF investigation.
1:48.4	He later requested a transfer to the Chicago Division where he created the first multi-agency
1:54.2	healthcare fraud task force.
1:56.2	John was handpicked for a two-year temporary duty assignment to work on the John Connolly
2:01.8	Corruption Justice Task Force for which he was awarded the FBI Director's Award for
2:08.1	Excellence in Investigations.
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