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dotymed

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61. IMO...

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Sat Jun 29, 2013, 01:06 PM

Jun 2013

Howard Zinn"s, History of the United States is a must read and covers cointelpro.

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Anyone else old enough to remember when COINTELPRO was murdering citizens by the dozen? [View all] NNN0LHI Feb 2013 OP

List a dozen to refresh my memory jberryhill Feb 2013 #1

Malcolm X, Viola Liuzzo, Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Greensboro '79 (5 dead), plus about 50 Native leveymg Feb 2013 #5

Exactly right. cliffordu Feb 2013 #7

Frank Olson, Dorothy Lagarreta, Karen Silkwood Octafish Feb 2013 #33

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

CHAOS? Really? hootinholler Feb 2013 #40

Don Adams of the FBI deserves to be seen and heard by billions. Octafish Feb 2013 #41

This is just, just, fuck, I have no words hootinholler Feb 2013 #42

Joseph Adams Milteer Octafish Feb 2013 #45

A couple of prominent people were in Dallas that day or in the days previous.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #49

Poppy Bush told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Octafish Feb 2013 #51

He appears to be carrying something under a white coat or towel. FBI, SS knew about his threat, leveymg Feb 2013 #54

keyword hijacking? MinM Feb 2013 #50

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

I'm sure that's true on a certain level, but remember....... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #53

John Huggins and Bunchy Carter NNN0LHI Feb 2013 #35

The media may not have put pieces together el_bryanto Feb 2013 #2

The media was actively complicit with the FBI. Fuddnik Feb 2013 #18

The day James Rector was killed, Reagan went on TV & said the shooting had been done by protesters NBachers Feb 2013 #26

Reagan was a very good actor and delivered his lines well.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #47

"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

Except JFK wasn't ever going to Chicago to see the Army Navy game... Historic NY Feb 2013 #9

Army-Air Force. And for some reason, SS cancelled the trip to Soldier Field. Octafish Feb 2013 #13

Yip... ReRe Feb 2013 #6

Cointelpro was made-up of "people" dotymed Feb 2013 #31

Are you talking about the Church Committee? ReRe Feb 2013 #32

Cointelpro was an FBI operation used to discredit dotymed Feb 2013 #37

It's my Seniorness... ReRe Feb 2013 #39

IMO... dotymed Jun 2013 #61

Absolutely... ReRe Jun 2013 #62

church commission was investigation of the intelligence agencies. i think you mean the HiPointDem Jun 2013 #60

I was actually targeted by Post-COINTELPRO operations justiceischeap Feb 2013 #8

Have you been formally denied a security clearance? What makes you think it was the PETA work? leveymg Feb 2013 #10

I haven't tried for any kind of security clearance justiceischeap Feb 2013 #11

Did agents ever come to your workplace and talk to your employer about you? leveymg Feb 2013 #14

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

interesting, thanks. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #59

They have been doing this for as long as I can remember. RoccoR5955 Feb 2013 #12

The War Resisters League building. Permanently bugged? Definitely. leveymg Feb 2013 #16

Yep same old shit. bemildred Feb 2013 #15

Kind of like this. Arctic Dave Feb 2013 #17

Obviously, if they hack CIA Director David Petraeus' email, EVERYONE is being watched . . . leveymg Feb 2013 #23

cispus (sp?) headquarters broken into mopinko Feb 2013 #19

CISPES. No need to break in, really, the org was penetrated at multiple levels. leveymg Feb 2013 #22

yup. mopinko Feb 2013 #24

I have a campaign ribbon from that group, too. ;-) leveymg Feb 2013 #25

uuummmm heaven05 Feb 2013 #20

not sure it matters booley Feb 2013 #21

The longest media show on TV was "60 Minutes" back then. Not the may 24 hour cable now. napi21 Feb 2013 #27

Hell yes, I remember it. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #28

Yeah, I was old enough then to remember some of it ... I remember Joseph McCarthy and RKP5637 Feb 2013 #29

What a lot of people don't know is that they target people in business, also. loudsue Feb 2013 #30

COINTELPRO is still a dirty secret. Dash87 Feb 2013 #38

Well, sure....... socialist_n_TN Feb 2013 #43

My educated guess is that it still operates under a different name or names. nt. OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #48

Was? n/t Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #52

Kicking. n/t Hotler Feb 2013 #55