COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story

TruthWillSetUFree · 12-01-2009, 05:32 AM

Compilation by Paul Wolf with contributions from Robert Boyle, Bob Brown, Tom Burghardt, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Bruce Ellison, Cynthia McKinney, Nkechi Taifa, Laura Whitehorn, Nicholas Wilson, and Howard Zinn.
Presented to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa by the members of the Congressional Black Caucus attending the conference: Donna Christianson, John Conyers, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and Diane Watson, September 1, 2001.

Overview

We're here to talk about the FBI and U.S. democracy because here we have this peculiar situation that we live in a democratic country - everybody knows that, everybody says it, it's repeated, it's dinned into our ears a thousand times, you grow up, you pledge allegiance, you salute the flag, you hail democracy, you look at the totalitarian states, you read the history of tyrannies, and here is the beacon light of democracy. And, of course, there's some truth to that. There are things you can do in the United States that you can't do many other places without being put in jail.

But the United States is a very complex system. It's very hard to describe because, yes, there are elements of democracy; there are things that you're grateful for, that you're not in front of the death squads in El Salvador. On the other hand, it's not quite a democracy. And one of the things that makes it not quite a democracy is the existence of outfits like the FBI and the CIA. Democracy is based on openness, and the existence of a secret policy, secret lists of dissident citizens, violates the spirit of democracy.

Despite its carefully contrived image as the nation's premier crime fighting agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has always functioned primarily as America's political police. This role includes not only the collection of intelligence on the activities of political dissidents and groups, but often times, counterintelligence operations to thwart those activities. The techniques employed are easily recognized by anyone familiar with military psychological operations. The FBI, through the use of the criminal justice system, the postal system, the telephone system and the Internal Revenue Service, enjoys an operational capability surpassing even that of the CIA, which conducts covert actions in foreign countries without having access to those institutions.

Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COunter INTELligence PROgrams (COINTELPRO's) of the period 1956-1971 were the first to be both broadly targeted and centrally directed. According to FBI researcher Brian Glick, "FBI headquarters set policy, assessed progress, charted new directions, demanded increased production, and carefully monitored and controlled day-to-day operations. This arrangement required that national COINTELPRO supervisors and local FBI field offices communicate back and forth, at great length, concerning every operation. They did so quite freely, with little fear of public exposure. This generated a prolific trail of bureaucratic paper. The moment that paper trail began to surface, the FBI discontinued all of its formal domestic counterintelligence programs. It did not, however, cease its covert political activity against U.S. dissidents." 1

Of roughly 20,000 people investigated by the FBI solely on the basis of their political views between 1956-1971, about 10 to 15% were the targets of active counterintelligence measures per se. Taking counterintelligence in its broadest sense, to include spreading false information, it's estimated that about two-thirds were COINTELPRO targets. Most targets were never suspected of committing any crime.

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TruthWillSetUFree · 12-01-2009, 05:36 AM

HAL TURNER PAID BY FBI TO MAKE THREATENING RACIST COMMENTS
http://www.infowars.com/hal-turner-p...ning-comments/

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
November 30, 2009

Not only did the FBI coach Hal Turner, it paid him to make racist and antisemitic remarks. “The Record of Bergen County reported Sunday that Hal Turner received thousands of dollars from the FBI to report on neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups and was sent undercover to Brazil,” reports the Associated Press.

Federal officials were concerned Turner and his white supremacist comrades would turn their FBI encouraged rhetoric into action. “Turner also claims the FBI coached him to make racist, anti-Semitic and other threatening statements on his radio show, but the newspaper also found many federal officials were concerned that his audience might follow up on his violence rhetoric.”

The FBI had little aversion in the past to supporting and encouraging racists, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, and white supremacists. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, for instance, the FBI under COINTELPRO provided covert aid and assistance to the Klan and other groups (see Brian Glick, COINTELPRO Revisited: Spying & Disruption).

“Church Committee hearings and internal FBI documents revealed that more than one quarter of all active Klan members during the period were FBI agents or informants,” notes the authors of COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story. “However, Bureau intelligence ‘assets’ were neither neutral observers nor objective investigators, but active participants in beatings, bombings and murders that claimed the lives of some 50 civil rights activists by 1964.”

FBI operatives set “up dozens of Klaverns, sometimes being leaders and public spokespersons.” Gary Rowe, an FBI informant, was involved in the Klan killing of Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights worker.

Under the FBI’s “White Hate Groups” program, senior FBI management and a majority of agents in the field endorsed the Klan’s values, if not the vigilante character of their tactics.

In the 1960s, the Klan and racists were used by the FBI against Black, Chicano, and Native American “liberation” movements. In the present time, inheritors of the Klan are used against the patriot and constitutionalist movements.

12-01-2009, 05:32 AM	#1
TruthWillSetUFree Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Illinois Posts: 673	COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story Compilation by Paul Wolf with contributions from Robert Boyle, Bob Brown, Tom Burghardt, Noam Chomsky, Ward Churchill, Kathleen Cleaver, Bruce Ellison, Cynthia McKinney, Nkechi Taifa, Laura Whitehorn, Nicholas Wilson, and Howard Zinn. Presented to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson at the World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa by the members of the Congressional Black Caucus attending the conference: Donna Christianson, John Conyers, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee, Cynthia McKinney, and Diane Watson, September 1, 2001. Overview We're here to talk about the FBI and U.S. democracy because here we have this peculiar situation that we live in a democratic country - everybody knows that, everybody says it, it's repeated, it's dinned into our ears a thousand times, you grow up, you pledge allegiance, you salute the flag, you hail democracy, you look at the totalitarian states, you read the history of tyrannies, and here is the beacon light of democracy. And, of course, there's some truth to that. There are things you can do in the United States that you can't do many other places without being put in jail. But the United States is a very complex system. It's very hard to describe because, yes, there are elements of democracy; there are things that you're grateful for, that you're not in front of the death squads in El Salvador. On the other hand, it's not quite a democracy. And one of the things that makes it not quite a democracy is the existence of outfits like the FBI and the CIA. Democracy is based on openness, and the existence of a secret policy, secret lists of dissident citizens, violates the spirit of democracy. Despite its carefully contrived image as the nation's premier crime fighting agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has always functioned primarily as America's political police. This role includes not only the collection of intelligence on the activities of political dissidents and groups, but often times, counterintelligence operations to thwart those activities. The techniques employed are easily recognized by anyone familiar with military psychological operations. The FBI, through the use of the criminal justice system, the postal system, the telephone system and the Internal Revenue Service, enjoys an operational capability surpassing even that of the CIA, which conducts covert actions in foreign countries without having access to those institutions. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COunter INTELligence PROgrams (COINTELPRO's) of the period 1956-1971 were the first to be both broadly targeted and centrally directed. According to FBI researcher Brian Glick, "FBI headquarters set policy, assessed progress, charted new directions, demanded increased production, and carefully monitored and controlled day-to-day operations. This arrangement required that national COINTELPRO supervisors and local FBI field offices communicate back and forth, at great length, concerning every operation. They did so quite freely, with little fear of public exposure. This generated a prolific trail of bureaucratic paper. The moment that paper trail began to surface, the FBI discontinued all of its formal domestic counterintelligence programs. It did not, however, cease its covert political activity against U.S. dissidents." 1 Of roughly 20,000 people investigated by the FBI solely on the basis of their political views between 1956-1971, about 10 to 15% were the targets of active counterintelligence measures per se. Taking counterintelligence in its broadest sense, to include spreading false information, it's estimated that about two-thirds were COINTELPRO targets. Most targets were never suspected of committing any crime. CONTINUED IN ITS ENTIRETY HERE http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FB...old_Story.html Last edited by Karen; 12-01-2009 at 08:13 AM.

12-01-2009, 05:36 AM	#2
TruthWillSetUFree Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Illinois Posts: 673	Re: COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story HAL TURNER PAID BY FBI TO MAKE THREATENING RACIST COMMENTS http://www.infowars.com/hal-turner-p...ning-comments/ Kurt Nimmo Infowars November 30, 2009 Not only did the FBI coach Hal Turner, it paid him to make racist and antisemitic remarks. “The Record of Bergen County reported Sunday that Hal Turner received thousands of dollars from the FBI to report on neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups and was sent undercover to Brazil,” reports the Associated Press. Federal officials were concerned Turner and his white supremacist comrades would turn their FBI encouraged rhetoric into action. “Turner also claims the FBI coached him to make racist, anti-Semitic and other threatening statements on his radio show, but the newspaper also found many federal officials were concerned that his audience might follow up on his violence rhetoric.” The FBI had little aversion in the past to supporting and encouraging racists, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, and white supremacists. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, for instance, the FBI under COINTELPRO provided covert aid and assistance to the Klan and other groups (see Brian Glick, COINTELPRO Revisited: Spying & Disruption). “Church Committee hearings and internal FBI documents revealed that more than one quarter of all active Klan members during the period were FBI agents or informants,” notes the authors of COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story. “However, Bureau intelligence ‘assets’ were neither neutral observers nor objective investigators, but active participants in beatings, bombings and murders that claimed the lives of some 50 civil rights activists by 1964.” FBI operatives set “up dozens of Klaverns, sometimes being leaders and public spokespersons.” Gary Rowe, an FBI informant, was involved in the Klan killing of Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights worker. Under the FBI’s “White Hate Groups” program, senior FBI management and a majority of agents in the field endorsed the Klan’s values, if not the vigilante character of their tactics. In the 1960s, the Klan and racists were used by the FBI against Black, Chicano, and Native American “liberation” movements. In the present time, inheritors of the Klan are used against the patriot and constitutionalist movements.