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This kind of thing has been going on for a long time - google 'Co-Intel-Pro' or see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO - note:
COINTELPRO (an acronym for
Counter
Intelligence
Program) was a series of
covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting
dissident political organizations within the
United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971.
[2][/sup] The FBI's motivation at the time was "protecting
national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."
According to FBI records, 85% of COINTELPRO resources were expended on infiltrating, disrupting, marginalizing, and/or subverting groups suspected of being subversive,
[3][/sup] such as
communist and
socialist organizations; the
women's rights movement; people suspected of building a "coalition of
militant black nationalist groups" ranging from the
Nation of Islam,
The Black Panther Party and
Republic of New Afrika to "those in the non-violent
civil rights movement" such as
Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the
Congress of Racial Equality, and other civil rights groups; a broad range of organizations labelled "
New Left", including
Students for a Democratic Society, the
National Lawyers Guild, the
Weathermen, almost all groups protesting the
Vietnam War, and even individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; and nationalist groups such as those "seeking independence for
Puerto Rico." The other 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert "
white hate groups," including the
Ku Klux Klan and
National States' Rights Party.
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The directives governing COINTELPRO were issued by
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who ordered FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these and their leaders.
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** It was proven in US District Court that COINTELPRO was responsible for actually constructing and planting a bomb in the car of Northern CA forest activists Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney and when the bomb exploded on the activists, the FBI blamed them and called the activists car bombers to attempt to discredit them - the federal court jury later awarded $2 million damages to the activists due to the defamation by the FBI when they were called car bombers in the press -
** It is known that COINTELPRO is still active - :what:
