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In reply to the discussion: Anyone else old enough to remember when COINTELPRO was murdering citizens by the dozen? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)41. Don Adams of the FBI deserves to be seen and heard by billions.
Guy is the real deal, a brave agent who stepped forward. Among his assassination-connected work, FBI Special Agent Don Adams interviewed racist Joseph Adams Milteer, a guy an FBI informant had taped detailing a pre-Dallas plot in Miami.
He wrote a book on the experience:
http://adamsjfk.com/?page_id=30
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Anyone else old enough to remember when COINTELPRO was murdering citizens by the dozen? [View all]
NNN0LHI
Feb 2013
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Malcolm X, Viola Liuzzo, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Greensboro '79 (5 dead), plus about 50 Native
leveymg
Feb 2013
#5
As I understand it, COINTELPRO was a series of FBI operations starting in the 1950s. The victims
leveymg
Feb 2013
#34
Thank you for the excellent observation, leveymg. I stand corrected re COINTELPRO.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#36
A couple of prominent people were in Dallas that day or in the days previous....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#49
He appears to be carrying something under a white coat or towel. FBI, SS knew about his threat,
leveymg
Feb 2013
#54
I've never thought that those operations were as compartmentalizes..........
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2013
#44
They rarely shared info with each other unless they absolutely had to do so....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#46
The day James Rector was killed, Reagan went on TV & said the shooting had been done by protesters
NBachers
Feb 2013
#26
"Richard Aoki, admits to his role" = ? richard aoki is dead, and was a panther. he 'admitted'
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#56
Wasn't the covert policy to kill leftists south of the border, but not U.S. citizens?
Coyotl
Feb 2013
#3
The Chicago police who killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton helped 'investigate' plot against JFK.
Octafish
Feb 2013
#4
church commission was investigation of the intelligence agencies. i think you mean the
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#60
Have you been formally denied a security clearance? What makes you think it was the PETA work?
leveymg
Feb 2013
#10
seriously? agents were sent to your workplace for something you wrote at DU? If so, that is
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#57
I, too, was surprised. But, it is was strangely gratifying and confirms what I already knew.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#58
Obviously, if they hack CIA Director David Petraeus' email, EVERYONE is being watched . . .
leveymg
Feb 2013
#23
CISPES. No need to break in, really, the org was penetrated at multiple levels.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#22
The longest media show on TV was "60 Minutes" back then. Not the may 24 hour cable now.
napi21
Feb 2013
#27
Yeah, I was old enough then to remember some of it ... I remember Joseph McCarthy and
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#29
My educated guess is that it still operates under a different name or names. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#48