On Mar. 8, 1971, a cab driver, a day care director, and two - TopicsExpress



          

On Mar. 8, 1971, a cab driver, a day care director, and two professors broke into a Media, Penn. FBI office and stole over 1,000 classified documents and mailed them anonymously to several U.S. papers. The documents revealed the FBIs COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the FBI aimed at surveiling, infiltrating, discrediting, disrupting domestic political organizations -- including actions that led to murder. (Learn more from Democracy Now! interview: bit.ly/1imyDfA) Here is just one of thousands of examples of the stories revealed. On Dec. 7, 1955 the FBI’s Mobile office began forwarding information on the bus boycott to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The special agent in charge of the office reports that someone, probably a member of the Montgomery police department, had been assigned to find “derogatory information” about King. From: stanford.io/1imyZmc More information about FBI tracking, discrediting, and attacking organizing efforts, see Tracked in America, bit.ly/1imz35A
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 04:20:43 +0000

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