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16. Here's some of what repression was like "then"-for example COINTELPRO NEW LEFT

Sun Aug 9, 2015, 03:42 PM

Aug 2015

John Edgar Hoover Declares War On The New Left (Namebase FOIA acquired documents from July 1968 re: COINTELPRO NEW LEFT)
http://www.namebase.org/foia/fbi01.html

Chapter Six of Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's The COINTELPRO Papers

COINTELPRO NEW LEFT
http://www.isioma.net/sds05699.html

That was just a portion of what was going then (1968)-from "law enforcement" and the DoJ.

The CIA was criminally active domestically too with it's covert behavioral science "research" (MKULTRA/MKSEARCH MKOFTEN etc)
and The Agency's war on political dissent- Operation CHAOS.

Operation CHAOS links

excerpts from Angus Mackenzie's book-SECRETS:The CIA's War at Home
http://www.whale.to/b/mackenzie_b.html

Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS (Verne Lyon September 1990 Covert Action Information Bulletin repost)
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/lyon.html

then there was the DoD and the entire federal government.

Today-it's all that and every privateer and their sub-contractors "national security experts"-isn't it???

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