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According to Liddick, PETA has substantial links with Native American ALF activist Rod Coronado.

He alleges that two Federal Express packages were sent to an address in Bethesda, Maryland, before and after a 1992 fire at Michigan State University that Coronado was convicted of setting, reportedly as part of " Operation Bite Back ," a series of ALF attacks on American animal testing facilities in the 1990s.

The first package was picked up by a PETA employee, Maria Blanton, and the second intercepted by the authorities, who identified the handwriting as Coronado's.

Liddick writes that the package contained documents removed from the university and a videotape of one of the perpetrators.

When they searched Blanton's home, police found some of the paraphernalia of animal liberation raids, including code names for Coronado and Alex Pacheco — PETA's co-founder — burglary tools, two-way radios, and fake identification.

Liddick also writes that PETA gave Coronado $ 45, 000 for his legal bills and another $ 25, 000 to his father.