Word: rochon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racist taunting of Agent Donald Rochon was limited to the bureau's Omaha and Chicago offices, but the domestic surveillance was nationwide, involving 52 of the FBI's 59 field offices. The investigation started in 1981 as a probe of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, an organization sympathetic to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. It soon grew much broader. Some 1,200 pages of FBI documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a lawyers' group critical of Administration policy. The documents show that the investigation eventually touched...
...disclosure of the surveillance campaign came just days after Rochon got national attention with his story of a sustained campaign of primitive racial harassment. Decisions by both the Justice Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had already upheld Rochon's claims of humiliating pranks that began when he was assigned in 1983 to the FBI office in Omaha. A photograph of his children was defaced by pasting an ape's head over the face of his son. Invitations to office functions with the words "Don't come" written across them were placed in his mail slot along with other...