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Newspaper

Press Telegram

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Nov 22, 1977

Page

4

FBI files reveal 15 years of harassment by COINTELPRO

The COINTELPRO era targeted black civil rights leaders and student activists with disinformation and dirty tricks. Documents show attempts to sow factionalism in groups like the Black Panthers, SNCC, and antiwar networks, including fake publications and leaks aimed at discrediting leaders such as Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael, and Dick Gregory.

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FBI Counterintelligence and Black Nationalist Clash

The piece outlines FBI efforts in the 1950s to subvert black nationalist groups and antiwar factions. It notes claims that Carmichael was a paid agent, Hoover’s disapproval of countermeasure strategies, and attempts to derail leaders by discrediting them within radical circles. It mentions the New University Conference list theft and an informant posing as a Chinese agent in California.

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Inside FBI covert ops and plots against radical groups

Documents reveal FBI covert actions including anonymous letters to Communist Party members, attempts to disrupt dissension, and a plan to field a fake militant group. Other efforts targeted Mexican Communist groups near the border and campus antiwar movements, with a mix of successes and aborted schemes lingering in the files.

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