In 1970, Reverend Philip Berrigan, founder of the Catholic Peace Fellowship anti-Vietnam War organization, conspired with other priests and a nun to stage a dramatic publicity stunt of kidnapping Presidental Advisor Kissinger and depriving federal buildings of heat in the dead of winter. Philip was indicted on antiwar conspiracy charges along with Maryknoll Sister Elizabeth McAllister, and three other priests (Joseph Wenderoth, Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Scoblick, a former priest) and Eqbal Ahmad, a fellow of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of Public Affairs. In the subsequent trial, the six avoided conviction on the more serious charges of conspiracy to kidnap and bomb federal buildings; Berrigan and McAllister were convicted of smuggling mail out of a federal penitentiary.