Newspapers with extensive coverage of the Northwest Liberation Front and/or their acts between 1972 and 1975 were:              Oregon Journal   Oregonian   Seattle Times   Seattle  P.I.       Portland Scribe   Oregon Times   Willamette Bridge

Richard Ross of KGW-TV news did a 7-Minute lead evening headline story about the NLF armed robbery of the Allison & Carey Gunworks where the proprietor was tied and gagged.  A large amount of handguns were taken.  His story compared the methods and operations of the robbery to Chicago Prohibition  Era gangsters.

FBI immediately arrived at the scene of the robbery with both a motive and radical suspects' photos.   One  picture was identified by the victim.  Local police  investigating the crime had no evidence or leads to indicate a political motive. This started the Portland Police Intelligence's surveillance operations on suspects in mid-January 1973.                     

Dr. Frank Stearns Giese,  convicted of Federal Conspiracy in the  bombings of military recruiting stations in Janaury 1973, was already under investigation by the Intelligence Unit according to a December 1972 police memo.

The FBI has a vast collection of news articles about the Northwest Liberation Front and everyone connected to it.  This stack of newsclippings can be obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.  The US Attorney General authorized their release in 1977 after FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley refused to release them.

Northwest Liberation Front called their machine guns and sawed-off shotguns "garbage guns to be only used on jobs."