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Commentary: Since Felt’s Coming Clean, He Should Dime Out the Culprits of COINTELPRO
Date: Thursday, June 09, 2005By: Gregory Kane, BlackAmericaWeb.com

Felt was in the FBI during that anti-Panther war, which was only part of the larger COINTELPRO operation. You can bet Felt either supervised, signed off on, knew of or participated in acts every bit as criminal as Nixon’s. The tactics were so vile and the trampling of civil liberties so great that Felt and his FBI cohorts still living could write a book called “How We Pimp-Slapped the Bill of Rights Back into the 4th Century, B.C.”

While FBI agents were sending out letters to members of both the BPP and the US organization to foment hatred between the two groups, Felt was spewing nonsense like “most racial disturbances” in black America were the work of “semi-professional hate-mongers and rabble rousers who…teach the ghetto’s receptive elements doctrines of hate.”



It didn’t stop there. The FBI tried to “snitch jacket” several Panthers and Pan Africanist Kwame Ture, then known as Stokely Carmichael. “Snitch jacketing” is falsely labeling someone as an informant. The consequences could be deadly.

In his book “Racial Matters: The FBI’s Secret File On Black America, 1960-1972,” author Kenneth O’Reilly wrote that a “COINTELPRO supervisor admitted that the practice of labeling Panthers as informants may have led to injury or death.” Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, the editor of Carmichael’s autobiography, wrote that the FBI leaked a false story to the Washington Post that Carmichael and his then-wife Miriam Makeba bought a $70,000 home in the nation’s capital.

Yes, the FBI is famous for such news leaks. Some of them turned out to be true. Some didn’t. But since Felt is still alive, it’s high time he leaked some information that we could use. For instance, I’ve been dying to know who the high-level FBI informant in the Nation of Islam was in the months before Malcolm X’s assassination.

“Whoever helped Woodward helped the country,” Felt said years ago after denying he was Deep Throat. Now it’s time for him to help the country some more. Felt should dime out every FBI agent and supervisor who shamelessly violated the law and human decency during the COINTELPRO nightmare.
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Within one year of the formation of the Black Panther Party, the FBI established a special counter-intelligence program called COINTELPRO, to neutralize political dissidents. Between the years 1956 and 1971, the FBI used the COINTELPRO program to investigate "radical" national political groups for intelligence that would lead to involvement of foreign enemies with these groups. This of course meant that the FBI specifically targeted American citizens.

According to COINTELPRO documents, 5 groups were singled out for investigation - the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers' Party, White Hate Groups, Black Nationalist Hate Groups and the New Left. The Black Panther Party was specifically targeted and bore the brunt of the most damage.



According to FBI documents, one of the purposes of the COINTELPRO program was to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of the Black nationalists". They wanted to prevent the rise of a black "messiah" and Martin Luther King Jr. had been amongst the candidates until his assassination in 1968 when the attention shifted to Huey P. Newton. Of the 295 documented actions taken by COINTELPRO to disrupt Black groups, 233 were directed against the Black Panther Party.

In his doctoral thesis, War Against The Panthers: A Study of Repression in America, Newton accuses J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO of: fostering a split between Eldridge Cleaver and himself through false letters and documents; creating discord between the BPP and other Black groups such as Ron Karenga's group United Slaves [US], which led to the murders of Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins at the University of California; and involvement in the murder of Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago Chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1969.


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FBI COINTELPRO
The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters.
J Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, 1967

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