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COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO (an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal,[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.[3] National Security Agency operation Project MINARET targeted the personal communications of leading civil rights leaders, Americans who criticized the Vietnam War, including Senators (e.g., Frank Church and Howard Baker), journalists, and athletes.[4][5] The official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[6][7] The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."[8] FBI Director J. History[edit] The FBI engaged in the political repression of "communism" almost from the time of the agency's inception in 1908, at a time of widespread social disruption due to anarchists and labor movements. Program exposed[edit]

COINTELPRO The FBI’s Reading Room contains many files of public interest and historical value. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Please note, that the information found in these files may no longer reflect the current beliefs, positions, opinions, or policies currently held by the FBI. The image quality contained within this site is subject to the condition of the original documents and original scanning efforts. Some material contained in this site may contain actions, words, or images of a graphic nature that may be offensive and/or emotionally disturbing.

Cambodian Campaign The Cambodian Campaign (also known as the Cambodian Incursion) was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia during mid-1970 by the United States and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) during the Vietnam War. These invasions were a result of the policy of President Richard Nixon. A total of 13 major operations were conducted by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) between 29 April and 22 July and by US forces between 1 May and 30 June. The objective of the campaign was the defeat of the approximately 40,000 troops of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF, also known as Viet Cong) who were ensconced in the eastern border regions of Cambodia. A change in the Cambodian government allowed a window of opportunity for the destruction of the base areas in 1970 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed and replaced by pro-US General Lon Nol. Preliminaries[edit] Background[edit] Planning[edit]

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition Archives de l' Ontario / Wikimedia Commons It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. Before hospital staff realized how sick he was—the alcohol-induced hallucination was just a symptom—the man died. So did another holiday partygoer. And another. Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. Although mostly forgotten today, the "chemist's war of Prohibition" remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history. But people continued to drink—and in large quantities. Well, sort of.

Vietnam War Protests — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts The launch of the Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese communist troops in January 1968, and its success against U.S. and South Vietnamese troops, sent waves of shock and discontent across the home front and sparked the most intense period of anti-war protests to date. By early February 1968, a Gallup poll showed only 35 percent of the population approved of Johnson’s handling of the war and a full 50 percent disapproved (the rest had no opinion). Joining the anti-war demonstrations by this time were members of the organization Vietnam Veterans Against the War, many of whom were in wheelchairs and on crutches. The sight of these men on television throwing away the medals they had won during the war did much to win people over to the anti-war cause. After many New Hampshire primary voters rallied behind the anti-war Democrat Eugene McCarthy, Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection.

The asbestos conspiracy The World Trade Organisation’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB), the source of its strong arm tactics, operates anonymously, in secret and behind closed doors. The WTO first came to prominence for its regrettable judgement against the European Union for refusing to import hormone-treated meat from the United States into France. The ruling provoked a chain reaction starting with initiatives by the roquefort cheese producers of Aveyron in France. Now, with no more publicity, the DSB is preparing to rule on a Canadian complaint challenging the French decision to ban asbestos, in force since 1 January 1997. Again, it is acting in the name of freedom for international trade. It was on 28 May 1998 that Ottawa initiated dispute proceedings against France. Between 1930 and 1960, manufacturers did all they could to prevent the link between asbestos and respiratory diseases, including cancer, becoming known, so they could avoid prosecution. Protest movement

Altamont Free Concert The Jefferson Airplane/Grateful Dead-centered background narrative[edit] According to Jefferson Airplane's Spencer Dryden, the idea for "a kind of Woodstock West" began when he and bandmate Jorma Kaukonen discussed the staging of a free concert with the Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones in Golden Gate Park. Referring to the Stones, Dryden said, "Next to the Beatles they were the biggest rock and roll band in the world, and we wanted them to experience what we were experiencing in San Francisco." As plans were being finalized, Jefferson Airplane were on the road, and by early December they were in Florida, believing the concert plans for Golden Gate Park were proceeding. But by December 4, the plans had broken down, in Paul Kantner's account because the city and police departments were unhelpful; innate conflict between the hippies of Haight-Ashbury and the police was manifested in obstructiveness. The Rolling Stones/Grateful Dead-centered background narrative[edit] Security[edit] [edit]

CIA Targeted Assassinations by Induced Heart Attack and Cancer In 1975, during the Church Committee hearings, the existence of a secret assassination weapon came to light. The CIA had developed a poison that caused the victim to have an immediate heart attack. This poison could be frozen into the shape of a dart and then fired at high speed from a pistol. The gun was capable of shooting the icy projectile with enough speed that the dart would go right through the clothes of the target and leave just a tiny red mark. Once in the body the poison would melt and be absorbed into the blood and cause a heart attack! Can you give a person cancer? If cancer in animals can be caused by injecting them with cancer viruses and bacteria, it would certainly be possible to do the same with human beings! In 1931, Cornelius Rhoads, a pathologist from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, purposely infects human test subjects in Puerto Rico with cancer cells; 13 of them died. The answer to the question – Can you give a person cancer – is yes. Why NATO? Mr.

Charles Manson Manson's death sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment when a 1972 decision by the Supreme Court of California temporarily eliminated the state's death penalty.[3] California's eventual reinstatement of capital punishment did not affect Manson, who is currently incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison. Early life Childhood Several statements in Manson's 1951 case file from the seven months he would later spend at the National Training School for Boys in Washington, D.C., allude to the possibility that "Colonel Scott" was African-American.[5]:555 These include the first two sentences of his family background section, which read: "Father: unknown. In the biography, Manson in His Own Words, Colonel Scott is said to have been "a young drugstore cowboy ... a transient laborer working on a nearby dam project." There is much about Manson's early life that is in dispute because of the variety of different stories he has offered to interviewers, many of which were untrue. Spahn Ranch

Asbestos IV: Conspiracy Theory in Asbestos Litigation | Verdict for Investors Introduction Since Johns Manville filed for bankruptcy in 1982, asbestos litigation has bankrupted 71 companies, but the disappearance of these original defendants has not stopped the plaintiffs’ attorneys from litigating asbestos claims. Rather, plaintiffs’ attorneys have developed theories on which to name new defendants. One principal theory is liability through conspiracy. Cases involving conspiracy theory arise in two different contexts. Although all states recognize conspiracy, liability is usually based on the damage caused by the underlying tort. Advantages of Conspiracy Theory Cases alleging conspiracy theories give plaintiffs a number of significant advantages: 1. 2. 3. 4. Historical Development Defendants’ raised two arguments against recognizing conspiracy in the asbestos cases: 2- There can be no actionable wrong in suppressing knowledge about the dangers of asbestos unless the defendant had a duty to warn, and no defendant has a general duty to the public to warn.

Battle of Washita River The Battle of Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita or Washita Massacre[4]) occurred on November 27, 1868 when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer’s 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle’s Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River (near present day Cheyenne, Oklahoma), part of a major winter encampment of numerous Native American tribal bands. Background[edit] Indians in November 1868[edit] Winter camps on the Washita River[edit] Location of Black Kettle's campsite by the Washita River in 2008 By early November 1868, Black Kettle's camp joined other Southern Cheyenne and other tribal bands at the Washita River, which they called Lodgepole River, after local pine trees.[8] Black Kettle's village was the westernmost of a series of camps, of Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, and Kiowa-Apache bands, that ran ten to 15 miles along the Washita River.[9] November 20 meeting at Fort Cobb[edit] Black Kettle continued, asking if he might move his people south to Fort Cobb: The attack[edit]

The National Security Archive Little Big Man The mother of all lies | The Yellow Brick Road Free Blog The story of babies torn from incubators by Iraqi soldiers during the first Gulf War is the latest demonstration of a principle long understood by propagandists, that a lie repeated many times ends up being accepted as truth. The blurring of boundaries between truth and myth is certainly not started with the Bush administration. The misinformation was part of the war at least since the days of Alexander the Great, who disseminava large shells along the path of his troops in retreat, the enemy into believing that his soldiers were giants. In 1998 the U.S. The document contains sections entitled Information Operations "psychological operations", "electronic warfare", "information attack", and "military deception". Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح‎), called “Nurse Nayirah” in the media, was a fifteen-year-old Kuwaiti girl, who alleged that she had witnessed the murder of infant children by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, in verbal testimony to the U.S. Like this: Like Loading...

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