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...enthusiastically, the architect of the harassment campaign against Bohmer was an FBI informant in a right-wing terrorist group known as the Secret Army Organization. Bohmer's experience was only one of the more ghastly results of COINTELPRO (counter intelligence program)--a secret campaign waged by the FBI to disrupt radical organizations through illegal means...
...came to light as a result of the March 1971 burglary of an FBI office in Media, Pa., by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI. The files seized in that raid revealed that the bureau spent an extremely large proportion of its time attempting to monitor, infiltrate, and disrupt radical groups in the Philadelphia area. Focusing particular attention on student anti-war activity and on the Black Panthers, the FBI employed such tactics as unauthorized wiretaps, mail openings, and disseminating fraudulent anonymous letters to discredit radical groups, much like Howard Hunt's Kennedy-Diem telegram...
Remember the Chicago Seven? Well, they were seven men accused, under a somewhat dubious conspiracy statute, of plotting to cross state lines to disrupt the 1968 Democratic Convention. They stirred up demonstrators and helped lead street protests against the Chicago police that often turned violent. One of their leaders was Jerry Rubin, field marshal of the yippies. Remember the yippies? Well, they were the Youth International Party...
...Intercom Conspiracy the hero is an editor with a drinking problem and so much alienation that he edits a right-winganti-communist newsletter run by a crazed American general: he falls into a plot by two bored intelligence officers in western Europe to disrupt NATO. The CIA, the KGB and other intelligence services get involved, and Ambler's knowledge of how these organizations operate--the old-boy networks; using journalists as front men--is so extensive that recent revelations about...
...surface, this year's labor-bargaining outlook would seem heavy with the menace of outsized wage boosts that could speed up inflation and strikes that could disrupt the accelerating recovery, or both. Nearly 4.5 million workers are covered by major contracts that expire or come up for reopening in 1976; that is twice as many as last year. The most important contracts cover five vital industries: trucking, rubber, construction, electrical equipment and autos. They are being renegotiated after two years in which the average hourly earnings of workers in U.S. private industry have risen less than the prices...