Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee also heard details of the FBI's campaign in the 1960s to harass other Americans. The FBI spied on the women's liberation movement on the theory that it might be infiltrated by Communists. Said Schwarz: [The bureau] "had informants running all over the country checking on what housewives were talking about in their meetings to discuss their role in life." In one case, he said, the agency arranged for white mice to be released at a women's lib protest demonstration...
False Credentials. A Hoover memo of October 1968, titled "The Disruption of the New Left," urged that the FBI send anonymous letters to parents, informing them when their youngsters were arrested in antiwar demonstrations. At the 1964 Democratic Convention, the FBI got false press credentials through NBC and inserted agents, working as reporters, within left-wing and civil rights groups. Sometimes the FBI tried to disrupt the marriages of dissidents by sending anonymous letters to a husband or wife. Said one letter to the husband of a white woman active in the black movement: "Look man I guess your...
...other distressing testimony to Congress, Robert Hardy, a Camden, N.J., building contractor, described his experience as an FBI informant. At bureau direction he planned, encouraged and directed a raid by antiwar protesters on a Camden draft board. Said Hardy: "They were the most nonviolent, well-intentioned people I ever met in my life. I'm not proud to say that with respect to breaking into the draft board, I taught them everything they knew...
...There are 8,000 FBI special agents now, 103 of them are black...
...vast leap of imagination to deduce that Ford, a veteran of 27 years in Washington, was one of the leading "buddies." Afterward, Reagan refused to be pinned down on specific issues, such as the right size for the U.S. defense budget or whether he would have condoned the FBI campaign to discredit Martin Luther King...