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CIA spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“In the 1960's as the civil rights movement grew in the country some intelligence agencies directed attention to civil rights organizations and groups hostile to them such as the Ku Klux Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.18

Sammy Houston member_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“This phenomenon is well illustrated by an informant in the Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.29

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved FBI requests for wiretaps on an Alabama Klan leader in 1963…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.79

FBI spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“the FBI should apply to the Klan the same techniques used previously in the infiltration of Communist groups…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Ku Klux Klan reported document

“The expansion of Klan investigations in response to pressure from President Johnson and Attorney General Kennedy...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.102

Robert F. Kennedy ordered_assassination_of Ku Klux Klan reported document

“The expansion of Klan investigations in response to pressure from President Johnson and Attorney General Kennedy...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.102

FBI carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Accordingly in September 1964 a directive was sent to seventeen field offices instituting a COINTEIPRO against the Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.103

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“For example in 1965 the Bureau obtained the tax returns of Ku Klux Klan members in order to develop "discrediting or embarrassing information" as part of the Bureau's COINTELPRO against the Klan.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.109

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“For example in 1965 the Bureau obtained the tax returns of Ku Klux Klan members in order to develop "discrediting or embarrassing information" as part of the Bureau's COINTELPRO against the Klan.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.109

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Katzenbach approved FBI requests for wiretaps on ... a Klan official…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.121

FBI recruited Ku Klux Klan documented document

“an FBI intelligence informant who penetrated the Ku Klux Klan and reported on its activities for over five years testified that on a number of occassions he and other Klansmen had 'beaten people severely'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.212

FBI spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Through a "black bag job" we obtained the records in the possession of three high-ranking officials of a Klan organization... These records gave us the complete membership and financial information concerning the Klan's operation which we h…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.220

Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“In 1966 Director Hoover informed the Appropriations subcommittee that the disruptive program had been extended to the Ku Klux Klan.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.295

FBI carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“In oneinstance a fieldofficewas authorized to contact the editor of a Southern newspaper to suggest that he have reporters interview Klan members and write an article basedon those interviews…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.19

FBI spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Klan matters were transferred in 1964 to the Intelligence Division from the General Investigative Division…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.21

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The Klan COINTELPRO began on July 30 1964 with the transfer of the 'responsibility for development of informants .and gathering of intelligence on the KKK…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24

FBI exposed Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Typical is the manner in which we exposed and thwarted a 'kick back scheme a Klan group was using...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.72

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“We conduct intelligence investigations with the view toward infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan with informants neutralizing it as a terrorist organization and deterring violence.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.74

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“We have found that by the removal of top Klan officers and provoking scandal within the state Klan organization through our informants the Klan in a particular area can be rendered ineffective.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.74

Gary Rowe member_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The second case study involves a former FBI 'extremist' informant in the Ku Klux Klan Gary Rowe…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.239

Gary Rowe spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Gary Rowe worked as an FBI informant in the Birmingham Alabama chapter of the Ku Klux Klan from 1959 until March 1965…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.245

Ku Klux Klan assassinated Viola Liuzzo documented document

“he surfaced to testify as an eyewitness to the killing of a civil rights worker Mrs Viola Liuzzo by Klan membeis…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.245

Rowe member_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Rowe was able to give the FBI extensive information about Klan membership as a result of his position in the 'Klan Bureau of Investigation, the Klan's security and investigative arm.'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.248

Birmingham police department did_business_with Ku Klux Klan reported document

“his FBI handling agent told him 'who the hell are we going to report it to . the [Birmingham] police department helped set [the violence] up'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.249

FBI funded Ku Klux Klan documented document

“As part of its COINTEL Program of using covert action against domestic groups,12 the FBI assisted an informant in the Ku Klux Klan in his efforts to set-up a new state-wide Klan organization independent of the regular Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.257

J. Edgar Hoover spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Memorandum from J Edgar Hoover to the Attorney General 10/9/63…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.325

Ku Klux Klan carried_out_attack South Carolina documented document

“However, the Ku Klux Klan continued violent attacks and killed scores of Black residents in Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and elsewhere.…”

source: url — Colfax massacre · p.1

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Mississippi documented document

“officials of the Justice Department... were increasingly concerned about the spread of Ku Klux Klan activity and violence in Mississippi...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.476

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Louisiana documented document

“officials of the Justice Department... were increasingly concerned about the spread of Ku Klux Klan activity and violence in... parts of Louisiana...…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.476

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Alabama documented document

“officials of the Justice Department... were increasingly concerned about the spread of Ku Klux Klan activity and violence in... and Alabama…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.476

Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of Ku Klux Klan reported document

“President Johnson directed J Edgar Hoover 'to put people after the Klan and study it from one county to the next'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.477

U.S. Department of Justice founded Ku Klux Klan documented document

“the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division set up a special unit as 'a central clearing house for information on Klan and Klan type organizations'…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.477

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Chapel Hill, North Carolina documented document

“Sullivan specifically cited the problem in North Carolina where there were 152 Klaverns…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.480

U.S. Department of Justice targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan reported document

“So far the Department has indicated that it intends to initiate proceedings against the Black Panther Party Progressive Labor Party Young Socialist Alliance and Ku Klux Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.544

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan reported document

“if you didn't for instance unlawfully break into the Ku Klux Klan headquarters in Louisiana obtain the list of the membership and the financial records and then proceed to arrest those members…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.125

Internal Revenue Service spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“List of Oranizations ... The United Klaus of America Inc The White Knights of the KKK…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.54

Federal Bureau of Investigation funded Ku Klux Klan documented document

“the Bureau had set up an entire klave.rn of the Klan composed of Bureau informants and that they paid the expenses of setting up the orga nization…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.28

COINTELPRO targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The five labels were... White Hate groups including the Klan... COINTELPRO is the name for the effort by the Bureau to destroy people and to destroy organizations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.31

FBI targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The next target is the so-called White Hate group…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.33

Federal Bureau of Investigation carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“now there was not as with the Klan merely an effort to go after the group that were most violent…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.34

FBI carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The same techniques were used against members of the Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.36

Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The first is the effort here against the Klan which reaches its peak in 1966…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.39

FBI carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan documented document

“For instance one of them that went to one Attorney General reading of that letter outlined almost in complete detail Klan activities activities taken to disrupt the Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.80

Federal Bureau of Investigation spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Our hearing today will focus first on the roles actally played by two informants one who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.118

Gary Thomas Rowe spied_on Ku Klux Klan documented document

“TESTIMONY OF GARY THOMAS ROWE INFORMANT AGAINST KU KLUX KLAN IN BIRMINGHAM ALA. 1960 65…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.120

Mr. Rowe member_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Mr SCHWARZMr Rowe were you an informant in the Klan Mr RowE Yes I was…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.125

Mr. Rowe worked_for Ku Klux Klan documented document

“when you were inside the Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.129

Gary Thomas Rowe member_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“I obtained the name of a preacher during my 5 years in the Klan organization…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.134

Birmingham police department did_business_with Ku Klux Klan reported document

“the Birmingham Police Department gave you complete access to the intelligence files of the police department You were pretty well allowed to see what you needed to see to promote the Klan's activities by the Birmingham Police Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.134

Ku Klux Klan member_of Birmingham police department documented document

“There were as many as three to five Klansmen on the police department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.136

Mr. Rowe worked_for Ku Klux Klan documented document

“you were also in effect gathering information for the Klan about civil rights activities is that correct…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.137

Birmingham police department carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan reported document

“the Birmingham Police Department and the sheriff's office of Jefferson County were definitely involved in the violence…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.139

Jefferson County Sheriff's Office carried_out_attack Ku Klux Klan reported document

“the Birmingham Police Department and the sheriff's office of Jefferson County were definitely involved in the violence…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.139

Mr. Rowe member_of Ku Klux Klan documented document

“I along with several other Klansmen were arrested outside of Tuscaloosa…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.140

Robert Thomas headed Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Robert Thomas who was the Exalted Cyclops like the president of the Klan…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.140

Jefferson County Sheriff's Department did_business_with Ku Klux Klan documented document

“The agreement was set up with the cooperation of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.141

FBI recruited Ku Klux Klan reported document

“I believe these are either FBI figures or estimates That would mean that one out of every five members of the Klan at that point was an informant paid by the Government…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.154

Rowe worked_for Ku Klux Klan documented document

“He was the bodyguard to the head man…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.155

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Mississippi documented document

“In fact I believe that the Bureau's thorough and unceasing investigation and the Department's prosecution of Klan activities was one of the major factors in bringing to an end the Klan's criminal conspiracy of violence that scourged the Sou…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.223

Ku Klux Klan operated_in South Vietnam documented document

“In fact I believe that the Bureau's thorough and unceasing investigation and the Department's prosecution of Klan activities was one of the major factors in bringing to an end the Klan's criminal conspiracy of violence that scourged the Sou…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.223

Federal Bureau of Investigation targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“Disruption of Hate Groups which is directed against Klan and hate-type groups primarily consisting of white memberships…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.395

Ku Klux Klan carried_out_attack Murder of Three Civil Rights Workers documented document

“Our investigations revealed that there was a brord Ku Klux Klan plot lehind the abduction and murder of the victims…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.529

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Illinois documented document

“Attempts t".ere made to organize the Ku Klux_I:lan in the States of Illinois and Wisconsin.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.534

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Madison, Wisconsin documented document

“Attempts t".ere made to organize the Ku Klux_I:lan in the States of Illinois and Wisconsin.…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.534

Ku Klux Klan carried_out_attack Milwaukee documented document

“In August 1966 a series of bombings occurred in-Milwaukee Visconsin…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.534

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Richmond, Indiana documented document

“Shortly after the Governor's public repudiation the Ilan attempted to retaliate and we learned of plans to burn crosses in the City of Richmond in defiance of the Governor…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.535

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Louisiana documented document

“For example in April of 1966 the Louisiana Klan planned to burn crosses throughout the state…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.535

Ku Klux Klan member_of Mississippi Highway Patrol documented document

“In 1964 we furnished information to Governor Paul Johnsen of Mississippi concerning klansmen who were members of the P:iseissippi hIighwayPatrol…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.536

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Bernard Montgomery documented document

“On December 7 1967 an informant of our Mobile Division learned of Ilan plans to burn crosses in Montgomery Alabama…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.537

Ku Klux Klan operated_in Alabama documented document

“On December 7 1967 an informant of our Mobile Division learned of Ilan plans to burn crosses in Montgomery Alabama…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.537

Domestic Intelligence Division targeted_for_regime_change Ku Klux Klan documented document

“This newcounterintelligence program directed at Klan and hate organisations…”

source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.613

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