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...California, the home of Sirhan Sirhan, the Zodiac Killer, Juan Corona, Altamont, People's Park, the Donner Party, the San Andreas Fault, and Richard Nixon, thus begat another symbol of doom and yet another disciple of destruction, this one the most feared of all, coyote-man Charles Manson. For if Manson was given to referring to himself as a coyote who heard and knew all, whose senses were sharp enough to catch any stirrings of life outside his void, then those he surrounded himself with were the rabbits, plump and innocent, waiting for the kill...
...recruitment of informers is intended as a restraint on free expression, as a curb on movements for change." Donner wrote...
During the Fifties, Donner writes, the Bureau would often order informers who had infiltrated the Communist Party to join other organizations which it wished to investigate. The presence of the informer was then cited in reports as evidence of Communist penetration of the group, and informers were hired to penetrate...
Informers are seldom used as witnesses in court, both Donner and Turner said, because "surfacing" an informer would mean his agent would then be forced to recruit another informer. Informers themselves, once they have accepted their status, are often reluctant to give it up, because doing so would mean the end of their regular salary payments, which in some cases have been as high as $75 a week...
...paper on informers. Frank Donner cites an extreme case of the effects of the surveillance mentality. Ernest A. Weiners, a professor at New York State University, committed suicide in 1967 after it was revealed that the FBI had recruited on of his academic colleagues as an informer to gather information on his activities in a civil rights group. In a letter found after his death. Wiener wrote. "It is too painful to continue living in a world in which freedom of expression is steadily being constricted in the name of freedom and in which peace means war, in which every...