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Word: communistic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving various mob leaders the impression that the Communist Party was criticizing "La Cosa Nostra," the FBI hoped for some kind of retaliation. The FBI carefully avoided specifying the exact nature of the retaliation it hoped for in bureau communications...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...another effort to impede King's efforts, Moore issued another memorandum on May 10, 1968 directing agent W.C. Sullivan to furnish "cooperative news media contacts" with a document linking the Communist Party to King's Poor People's Campaign (PPC), in order to discredit...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson has recently obtained copies of FBI files which show that the FBI included King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in its harassment of "black nationalist hate groups." Additional files show that the FBI tries to provoke a "fight" between the Communist Party and "La Cosa Nostra" through a campaign of bogus letters and misinformation between the two groups...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

OTHER DOCUMENTS recently obtained by The Crimson delineate agent F.J. Baumgardner's memorandum of October 4, 1966, which recommended "a long-range counterintelligence program designed to provoke a dispute between the Communist Party, USA, and La Cosa Nostra' under the code name of Hoodwink...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...bureau sent phony letters to mob leaders, signed by Communist Party members, protesting the working conditions of local labor union "sweatshops." The selected unions had intimate mob ties, and the FBI's goal was to disrupt both groups by expending "their energies, time, and money attacking the other...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

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