Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoover was hardly a scholar, nor was he a particularly literate man. He had made an early effort to "understand" the radical forces in the country, holding long arguments in his Justice Department Office, for example, with Emma Goldman and others he had deported during the Palmer Raid era. But he soon abandoned any such dialogue and effort to understand and turned to the attack...
COINTELPRO first 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...
Last week that dream became reality. In the biggest talent raid since CBS grabbed Jack Benny from NBC, ABC won Walters with an offer of $1 million a year for five years and a job that will let her sleep until, well, at least 7:30 a.m. Some time between now and next fall, Walters will join an at first sulfurously reluctant Harry Reasoner in anchoring ABC's lagging Evening News. She will be the first woman ever to fill a regular network anchor slot, the most prestigious job in television journalism. She will also become history...
...been a full-fledged member of the party that robbed the bank. He noted that the stolen $10,690 had been split nine ways-and that Patty had got a full share. Was it "reasonable," Browning asked, to believe that someone who had been forced to participate in the raid would subsequently be given an equal...
Patty had been coerced into joining the S.L.A. and coerced into taking part in the robbery. Every member of the jury, he said, would have participated in the raid, if so ordered by the S.L.A. What is more, said Bailey, the jurors might have gone along even if they had not been intimidated by being held in closets for 57 days, as Patty was. Putting the matter as bluntly as he could, Bailey said that the alternatives faced by Patty were easy "for the most simple-minded person to understand: 'Do what I say or I'll blow...