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Half an hour before midnight on the night of October 14, 1982, a van rigged with 550 pounds of dynamite exploded in front of the Litton Systems plant in Toronto, Ontario, where components for the cruise missile were being built. The massive explosion, which blew of the face of building 402 at Litton, had been set by a group calling itself Direct Action. The bombing played a part in Litton losing the contract to build guidance systems for US cruise missiles.
Months earlier, on May 31, 1982, Direct Action had blown up a hydro substation under construction by state-operated British Columbia Hydroelectric on Vancouver Island. That bombing was an attempt to stop the development of a one billion dollar transmission line project set to provide cheap electricity to the industrial centres of the US west coast.
These bombings were the most stunning actions by the only urban guerilla group in English Canada and only guerilla acts since the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) had undertaken a series of bombings and kidnappings in the late-1960s and early 1970s. Moreover, these actions were undertaken by a group which was made up of anarchists.
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