Larry Grathwohl

{{Short description|FBI informant}}

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Larry David Grathwohl (October 13, 1947 – July 18, 2013){{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=larry-d-grathwohl&pid=165975440&fhid=27715|title=Larry D. GRATHWOHL's Obituary on The Cincinnati Enquirer|website=Legacy.com |publisher=|access-date=26 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908163212/https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/cincinnati/name/larry-grathwohl-obituary?id=22511416 | archive-date=2023-09-08 | url-status=live}} was a United States Army veteran and a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant in the 1970s. He infiltrated the Weather Underground{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SD2TvqDh8EkC&dq=larry+grathwohl&pg=PA107 | title=The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground | isbn=9781859841679 | last1=Jacobs | first1=Ron | date=17 November 1997 | publisher=Verso}} and co-wrote a book about his experiences: Bringing Down America: An FBI informer with the Weathermen (1976).{{cite book | first1=Larry | last1=Grathwohl |first2=Frank |last2=Reagan |title = Bringing Down America: An FBI informer with the Weathermen | publisher = Arlington House | location=New York | date = 1976}}

{{cite web| url=https://spectator.org/55174_rip-larry-grathwohl-weather-underground-infiltrator/ | publisher=The Spectator| author= Paul Kengor|date=2015 | title=RIP Larry Grathwohl, Weather Underground Infiltrator | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605140619/https://spectator.org/55174_rip-larry-grathwohl-weather-underground-infiltrator/ | archive-date=2023-06-05 | url-status=live}}

Grathwohl was in the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Regiment, 101st Airborne Division from 1965 to 1966 and served in the Vietnam War. He became a sergeant.