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SRC - COINTELPRO

Folder: 05 - SOURCE MATERIAL Supporting: COINTELPRO

Primary Documents

FBI Vault — COINTELPRO Files https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro Official FBI acknowledgment. All COINTELPRO sub-programme files available for download. Includes Black Nationalist Hate Groups White Hate Groups Communist Party Socialist Workers Party New Left files.

Church Committee Final Report Book III — 1976 “Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans” Full text available: loveman.sdsu.edu/docs/1976Churchcommittee.pdf 500,000 investigations confirmed. Zero prosecutions confirmed. Sullivan testimony confirmed. MLK letter confirmed. “Maintain existing social and political order” confirmed. COINTELPRO-type activities may continue — confirmed.

US Senate — Church Committee https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm Official Senate record. 110,000 documents examined. 800+ witnesses. 126 hearings. 700 page public report.

Hoover March 1968 Directive “Prevent the rise of a messiah who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement.” Quoted in multiple primary sources including BlackPast.org and LexisNexis FBI files archive. Original in FBI COINTELPRO files.

Key Cases

Fred Hampton Assassination

Wikipedia — Fred Hampton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton December 4 1969 raid confirmed. 99 police rounds confirmed. 2 shots from inside confirmed. William O’Neal informant floor plan confirmed. O’Neal sedative in drink confirmed. $1.85 million settlement confirmed. Federal grand jury conspiracy finding confirmed. No criminal charges confirmed.

EFF — History of Surveillance and the Black Community https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/history-surveillance-and-black-community FBI provided information to CPD confirmed. “Aided in a raid” confirmed. Hampton shot dead as result confirmed.

Geronimo Pratt 27 years imprisonment confirmed. 1997 conviction overturned confirmed. FBI informant as prosecution witness confirmed. Withholding of evidence confirmed. Wikipedia — Geronimo Pratt.

MLK “You Are Done” Letter Church Committee record confirmed. One month before Nobel Prize confirmed. “Fraud” and “psychotic” language confirmed. Suicide suggestion confirmed. Illegal surveillance recordings enclosed confirmed.

Comprehensive Sources

Wikipedia — COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Comprehensive documented overview. All targets confirmed. All tactics confirmed. Church Committee findings confirmed. Operation CHAOS confirmed. Media Pennsylvania burglary confirmed. Common tactics: perjury witness harassment witness intimidation withholding exculpatory evidence — all confirmed.

BlackPast.org — COINTELPRO https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/cointelpro-1956-1976/ 28 Panthers killed confirmed. 750 Panthers imprisoned confirmed. Sam Napier killing confirmed. Malcolm X divide — FBI role suspected confirmed.

UC Berkeley Library — FBI Surveillance Records https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/fbi “Discredit disrupt and destroy” objective confirmed. Fake letter from US to BPP 1968 memo confirmed. Stokely Carmichael quote documented. “Black Extremists” 2017 label echoing COINTELPRO confirmed.

EFF — History of Surveillance (above) Operation CHAOS 1967 confirmed. Black Lives Matter IRON FIST operation documented.

The Media Pennsylvania Burglary

The Burglary — Betty Medsger (2014) Alfred A. Knopf. Definitive account of the Citizens Commission and Media PA break-in. 43 years of anonymity confirmed. Participants publicly identified 2014. Statute of limitations expired. Washington Post publication confirmed.

Manning Marable — Malcolm X

Marable, M. — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011) Viking Press. Pulitzer Prize winner. FBI infiltration of OAAU confirmed. Full extent of involvement in assassination unknown confirmed. COINTELPRO role in Nation of Islam / Malcolm X divide suspected.

Robert F. Kennedy Authorisation

Church Committee Record RFK personal authorisation of King wiretapping “on a trial basis for a month or so” confirmed. Hoover extension of clearance “unshackled” confirmed.

Still To Source

  • Full text of MLK “You Are Done” letter — FBI FOIA reading room confirm exact document ID
  • William O’Neal full documented record — informant payments and specific instructions
  • Operation IRON FIST — primary document source beyond news reporting investigate
  • 2017 “Black Identity Extremists” FBI report — full text #investigate
  • Specific acoustic harassment techniques used in COINTELPRO — primary document citations #investigate
  • Current FBI domestic surveillance programmes — post-Church Committee era #investigate

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