Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your reporter states that the reluctance for four days of Bensonhurst residents to become involved in a recent murder investigation "might be seen by outsiders as evidence of the area's deterioration." The FBI reports hundreds of thousands of crimes annually in which information is not forthcoming for weeks -not days-after crimes are committed...
Shoppers who neglect to pay for their merchandise are criminals for all seasons, and their numbers are increasing at an alarming rate. The FBI reports more than 600,000 shoplifting arrests across the nation last year, nearly three times as many as in 1970, and the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates merchants' losses from thefts in 1976 at some $8 billion. In the past eight weeks police in Hialeah, Fla., have arrested six members of a band of shoplifters called the Chilean Commandos, trained in Fagin-type schools in Valparaiso and Santiago. South American rings have been collecting booty...
While there was plenty of sordid reading matter in the huge archives that were opened to the public, an additional 16,000 pages of COINTELPRO files have been withheld on the ground that their release would jeopardize FBI investigative techniques or informants. That material, too, contains some highly incriminating documents concerning bureau activities...
...example, TIME has learned that the FBI used a convicted holdup man as an informant to penetrate the Ku Klux Klan and investigate the 1963 murder of Black Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers. The informant kidnaped a suspected Klan leader, bound him hand and foot, and then interrogated him at pistol point at a lonely farm to extract an account of the crime. But largely because such evidence was obtained under duress, and therefore is inadmissible in court, the Government was never able to get a conviction in the Evers case...
Another still suppressed section of the files reveals that in the early 1970s the leadership of the Black Panthers wa so riddled with FBI informants that the bureau virtually ran the organization Some of the informants viewed their association with the FBI as a license to plunder Black Panther funds and stash away small fortunes before the treasury was drained...