Word: cointelpro
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...Ellis served 25 years in Attica, the New York State prison, after being investigated by COINTELPRO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterintelligence program, for his involvement in the Black Panthers. He earned his master's degree while imprisoned in Attica...
...America's foremost class-war prisoner, has endured 23 years of California prison hell. He was framed in the early 1970s for a murder the state knows he didn't commit. A former leader of the Black Panther Party, Geronimo was a named target of the FBI's vicious COINTELPRO campaign against black activist...
...intrusive. "There are certain personal civil liberties that people should be able to enjoy," says Charles Maikish, who oversees the Center for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. "It's a commercial complex, not a military installation." Memories are still fresh of the FBI's unbridled COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s and '70s, which targeted antiwar groups. "If we panic, we shall wind up demonizing ethnic groups and letting our law-enforcement agencies become as self-serving and corrupt as was J. Edgar Hoover's,'' says the philosopher Richard Rorty. "Britain has been coping with terrorist bombs...
These guidelines were put in place in the aftermath of the COINTELPRO scandal of the early 1970s, when it was revealed that the bureau was not only infiltrating but disrupting and harassing extremist organizations. First issued in 1976 by Attorney General Edward Levi and later modified by Attorney General William French Smith, the rules give the bureau authority to investigate by means that include, if necessary, "recruitment or placement of informants in groups, 'mail covers,' or electronic surveillance," provided the "facts and circumstances reasonably indicate" that a group "is engaged in an enterprise for furthering political or social goals wholly...
...Black Panther survivors of the COINTELPRO operation frame-up and murder what it means to be targeted as terrorist by the government. Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a Black Panther incarcerated for 15 years, for a murder he did not commit, is only now having his case reopened...