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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Nov 22, 1977

Page

4

FBI Counterintelligence Tactics Against Black Leaders Revealed

Declassified files recount FBI efforts to disrupt Black Panther leadership via forged letters and rumors. Memo details targeted campaigns against Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, including accusations of misusing party funds and paid government spying. The bureau also sought to discredit figures like Stokely Carmichael and Dick Gregory and to split Communist and Socialist groups through rumor and deceit.

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Anti-Red effort aborted by facts

An FBI source stole a group membership list and boasted it would spark counterintelligence actions. In California the agency tried to seed dissent in a radical antiwar group by an informant posing as a Chinese Communist agent. Violence later marked the party, and plans to create a cover group were considered.

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FBI Counterintelligence Campaigns Exposed in Media Memo

A declassified dossier details FBI counterintelligence operations from the 1960s to 1980s. It cites attempts to discredit leaders like Imperial Wizard Robert M Shelton and suppress antiwar movements including the 1968 Poor People’s March, with informant pamphlets and fake letters to parents. It notes surveillance, sting plans, and efforts to monitor Communist and black extremist groups, yielding 2579 approved operations and vast party files.

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