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...OVERALL PICTURE of FBI activities that emerges from these documents is one of flagrant disregard for legality and constitutional guarantees in its quest to suppress what Hoover considered dangerous subversion. None of the groups against which COINTELPRO was directed has engaged in illegal activities. In fact, it was precisely the legal activities of the SWP which drove the FBI to attack them; Hoover ordered a disruption campaign against the SWP because...
...investigative article in the premier February/March issue on nuclear power plants by Paul Jacobs turns up some interesting material on the problems in nuclear power plant engineering, in foreign countries that U.S. construction firms suppress. There's also a two-part series on so-called "radical activism" in America by Bo Burlingham that not only outlines some of the strong points of the kind of journalism Mother Jones proffers, but underlines its weaknesses as well...
...Robinson Rojas Sanford makes clear in The Murder of Allende, the weakness of Allende's political power was trivial compared to the threat of military rebellion. The Chilean armed forces, whose function until then had been to deter an unlikely Peruvian invasion and to suppress internal dissent, clearly held veto power over the Popular Unity government. But Allende, though imprisoned by these restrictions, refused to acknowledge them, speaking as though socialism had taken hold in Chile. His temerity and the myth of an apolitical armed forces made the coup a great surprise to those who had believed...
Some attorneys maintained that Bailey should have moved sooner to suppress some crucial evidence seized in the San Francisco apartment of William and Emily Harris. They noted that the Harrises' lawyer, Leonard Weinglass, succeeded in getting the same evidence excluded from their Los Angeles trial. But other lawyers point out that since the rules of search and seizure are more liberal in California courts than in federal courts, such a move by Bailey was bound to fail anyway...
...tabloid Mirror flayed the Times for "prejudiced and intemperate political judgment." Author Auberon Waugh wrote to the Times: "Your decision to suppress those aspects of the news which displease you strike me as differing only in its effectiveness from the Russian model...