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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]OldDem2012
(3,526 posts)46. They rarely shared info with each other unless they absolutely had to do so....
....Unless they stumbled across another intel agency's operation they rarely knew they were spying on the same people. Sometimes they infiltrated the same groups and didn't even know they were in the same meetings.
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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