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Claims (250)
War Trade Board did_business_with
FBI documented
document
“The military departments seemed primarily to want the help of the specialized forces of the Treasury the War Trade Board and the Labor Department for cutting off the flow of enemy spies goods and information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.101
Mr. Schwarz worked_for
FBI documented
document
“after you did help solve the Liuzzo murder by providing information to the FBI as to the solution of that crime…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.129
Ms. Cook worked_for
FBI documented
document
“in your service as an informant you provided the Bureau with about 1,000 names…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.129
FBI paid
Ms. Cook documented
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“Ms CooK Yes... Approximately $300 a month... I received something like $5,000 during the time that I worked for them…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.131
Ms. Cook's partner worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The man that I had been living with was an informant…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.132
FBI spied_on
United Church of Christ documented
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“The United Church of Christ's position on unconditional amnesty was of interest to the FBI yes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.133
Gary Thomas Rowe worked_for
FBI documented
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“I was instructed to obtain information of any description that I could report I had no boundary line I was instructed to cover and monitor everything…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.133
FBI recruited
Ms. Cook documented
document
“what instructions were you given by the FBI relative to the secrecy of your mission as to how you were supposed to keep from the public or other individuals that you were in fact an informant…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.135
FBI spied_on
Vietnam Veterans Against the War documented
document
“In your judgment did the FBI have an exaggerated concern about this organization as far as it being a threat to the United States…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.136
FBI operated_in
Birmingham documented
document
“In the May 21 incident the FBI did send additional agents into Birmingham prior to that march did they not…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.137
FBI did_business_with
M & T Bank documented
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“They got me the job at M & T Bank…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.138
FBI met_with
National Police Board reported
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“So the FBI then apparently went to the State police to try to prevent this violence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.141
James Adams worked_for
FBI documented
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“TESTIMONY OF JAMES B ADAMS ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (INVESTIGATION) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
W. Raymond Wannall worked_for
FBI documented
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“W RAYMOND WANNALL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR INTELLIGENCE DIVISION…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
John A. Mintz worked_for
FBI documented
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“JOHN A MINTZ ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
Joseph G. Deegan worked_for
FBI documented
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“JOSEPH G DEEGAN SECTION CHIEF…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
Robert L. Shackelford worked_for
FBI documented
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“ROBERT L SHACKLEFORD SECTION CHIEF…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
Homer A. Newman Jr. worked_for
FBI documented
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“HOMER A NEWMAN JR. ASSISTANT TO SECTION CHIEF…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
Edward P. Grigalus worked_for
FBI documented
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“EDWARD P GRIGALUS UNIT CHIEF…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
Joseph G. Kelley worked_for
FBI documented
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“JOSEPH G KELLEY ASSISTANT SECTION CHIEF CIVIL RIGHTS SECTION GENERAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.142
Mr. Adams headed
FBI documented
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“Mr Adams can probably best address the use of informants on criminal matters since he heads the operational division on that…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.143
FBI did_business_with
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“We also disseminated simultaneously through letterhead memorandums to the Department of Justice the problem…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.144
FBI spied_on
Washington Area Citizens Coalition Against the ABM documented
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“An FBI informant and two FBI confidential sources reported on the plan's participants and activities of the Washington Area Citizens Coalition Against the ABM…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.147
FBI did_business_with
U.S. State Department documented
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“The reports on the plans for the meeting and on the meeting itself were disseminated to the State Department to military intelligence and to the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.147
FBI did_business_with
Trump administration documented
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“The reports on the plans for the meeting and on the meeting itself were disseminated to the State Department to military intelligence and to the White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.147
FBI spied_on
Amnesty International documented
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“FBI informants provided advance information on plans for the meeting and apparently attended and reported on the conference…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.148
Mr. Wannall worked_for
FBI documented
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“Mr WANNALL Senator Hart that was a case that was opened on November 14 and closed November 20 and the information which caused us to be interested in it were really two particular items…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.149
FBI operated_in
Buffalo documented
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“The Buffalo chapter of the VVAW was the regional office covering New York and northern New Jersey…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.149
FBI operated_in
Northern New Jersey documented
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“The Buffalo chapter of the VVAW was the regional office covering New York and northern New Jersey…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.149
FBI worked_for
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“We are the investigative agency of the Department of Justice and during these times the Department of Justice had us maintain the role of an investigative agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.152
Salvadoran Armed Forces carried_out_attack
FBI documented
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“In Little Rock the decision was made for instance that if any arrests need to be made the Army should make them and next to the Army the U.S marshals should make them not the FBI even though we developed the violations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.152
FBI operated_in
Boston documented
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“We have them in Boston in connection with the busing incident…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.153
FBI operated_in
Louisville documented
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“the marshals are in Boston they are in Louisville…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.153
Robert Hardy worked_for
FBI documented
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“Mr Hardy of course was the FBI informer…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.153
FBI recruited
Ku Klux Klan reported
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“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
FBI carried_out_attack
German-American Bund documented
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“You don't have probable cause to investigate anyone but you can direct an intelligence opera tion against the German-American Bund…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.157
Mr. Kelley headed
FBI documented
document
“Mr Kelley has set a pattern of being as forthright as any Director of the FBI in acknowledging mistakes that had been made…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.157
FBI paid
Joe Deegan documented
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“We paid him for the information he furnished us concerning the operation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.160
FBI supplied_arms_to
Black Panthers reported
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“who with the knowledge of his FBI contact was supplying members with weapons and instructing them in how to use those weapons…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.160
FBI worked_for
Gary Thomas Rowe documented
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“A good example of this was Mr Rowe who became active in an action group and we told him to get out or we would no longer use him as an informant…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.160
U.S. Supreme Court proposed
FBI documented
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“here we get into the fact that the Supreme Court has held that the use of informants does not invade any of these constitutionally protected areas…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.162
FBI spied_on
National Lawyers Guild documented
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“The FBI provided the Attorney General with advance information from its sources about the Lawyers Guild plans as well as a full report on everything concerning that group in Bureau files…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.170
Howard McGrath worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The FBI provided the Attorney General with advance information from its sources about the Lawyers Guild plans as well as a full report on everything concerning that group in Bureau files Attorney General Howard McGrath passed the reports on…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.170
FBI spied_on
Knoxville Area Human Relations Council documented
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“The Bureau conducted name checks on all 11 members of the Council's board of directors and forwarded the results to Attorney General William Rogers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.170
William P. Rogers worked_for
FBI documented
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“The Bureau conducted name checks on all 11 members of the Council's board of directors and forwarded the results to Attorney General William Rogers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.170
Lawrence Walsh worked_for
FBI documented
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“The Bureau conducted name checks on all 11 members of the Council's board of directors and forwarded the results to Attorney General William Rogers Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Walsh…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.170
Harold R. Tyler Jr. worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The Bureau conducted name checks on all 11 members of the Council's board of directors and forwarded the results to Attorney General William Rogers Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Walsh and Special Assistant to the Attorney General Harold …”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.170
FBI spied_on
Daniel Schorr documented
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“A request by the Nixon White House for a name check on CBS news correspondent Daniel Schorr which the FBI turned into a full field investigation has been extensively examined elsewhere…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.171
Hubert Humphrey met_with
FBI documented
document
“an aide to Vice President Hubert Humphrey contacted the FBI to request assistance at the 1968 Chi cago convention…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174
Ramsey Clark removed_from_power
FBI documented
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“Attorney General Ramsey Clark turned down FBI requests for authorization to wiretap protest demonstration leaders at the Chicago convention…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174
FBI spied_on
Anna Chennault documented
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“The FBI instituted this surveillance to cover her activities in Washington D.0 and New York City…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.174
FBI spied_on
Daniel Ellsberg documented
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“the FBI leaked to a newsman derogatory public record information about Daniel Ellsberg's lawyer…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.175
FBI spied_on
Ralph David Abernathy documented
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“In May of 1970 the FBI provided derogatory public record information and other allegations about the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Vice President Agnew at his request…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.175
Courtney Evans worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Our witnesses this morning are Mr Cartha DeLoach and Mr Courtney Evans former special agents of the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.175
Cartha DeLoach worked_for
FBI documented
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“Our witnesses this morning are Mr Cartha DeLoach and Mr Courtney Evans former special agents of the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.175
Domestic Intelligence Division headed
FBI documented
document
“They were operating at the instructions of FBI headquarters the Domestic Intelligence Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.187
Mr. DeLoach worked_for
FBI documented
document
“We were an investigative agency and we passed on all data…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.190
FBI spied_on
Congress of Racial Equality documented
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“One individual in CORE was quoted as stating 'that if all persons arrested in civil rights riots were not given amnesty then direct action would be taken to dramatize the cause of racial strife.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.190
FBI spied_on
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party documented
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“Another report was that was passed on 'Apprehension concerning personal safety continues to be expressed by members of the Mississippi Free dom Democratic Party.'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.190
FBI spied_on
John F. Kennedy documented
document
“Reference is made to your request regarding authors of books dealing with the assassination of President Kennedy Attached are summary memoranda setting forth pertinent information contained in the FBI files concerning the following individu…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.191
Domestic Intelligence Division member_of
FBI documented
document
“the previous reference of the counterintelligence program where the Domestic Intelligence Division would prepare a memorandum under the mass media category of that program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.190
Woodrow Wilson ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
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“You have shown me the memoranda concerning the request on the part of the President of the United States for the FBI to furnish name checks concerning critics of the Kennedy assassination…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.191
Federal Bureau of Investigation succeeded
FBI documented
document
“finally led to the termination of its predecessor the Bureau of Investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.247
FBI spied_on
Anna Chennault reported
document
“Well apparently the FBI did do it You will not state that the FBI did not do it…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.262
U.S. Congress funded
FBI alleged
document
“And I wonder if you think there is sort of a dated aspect to these [statutes] in connection with the responsibilities of the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.334
Al Smith worked_for
FBI documented
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“He said these cabinets were full and that during the moving a drawer came open on one of the cabinets and he observed light colored folders inside with the contents of each folder roughly one inch thick…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.365
Washington Field Office worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Also in connection with the removal of material from Mr Hoover's home it was determined that during the period of approximately the middle of May to the middle of July 1972 cardboard boxes containing the personal correspondence of Mr Hoover…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.366
W. C. Sullivan worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The following is set forth in regard to your request concerning what authority we have for "black bag jobs" and for the bachground of our policy and procedures in such matters…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.367
BeLoach worked_for
FBI documented
document
“BeLoach DAII July 19 19G6 W C Sullivan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.367
SAC Albany worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Iti"all he the reponsibil'ty cf each field office to furnish the .a_c1u co a coatir.ui.n ca,is -.te1li::encc itc;a suitable for this letter…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.378
FBI worked_for
United States documented
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“The Bureau will therefore in the near future commence referring cases to you by letter requesting an appropriate confidential investigation to develop from confidential sources and a direct manner the necessary information to enable the ren…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.419
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Rangemen documented
document
“Consideration has been given to a similar letter to the BOP alleging a Rangemen plot against the leadership however it is not felt this would be productive since the BPP at present is not believed as violence-prone as the Rangers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.443
Ramsey Clark covered_up
FBI documented
document
“Attorney General RamseyClark turned down FBI requests for authorization to wiretap protest demonstration leadcrs at the Chicago convention…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.491
Leonard Boudin linked_to
FBI documented
document
“L or.-WDBoudinis wellknownto the Bureau…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.499
Interdivision Information Unit worked_for
FBI documented
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“You are free to consult with the FBI and other intelligence Agencies in the Government to draw on their experience…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.542
Charles J. Bonaparte founded
FBI documented
document
“Attorneys General Charles J Bonaparteand GeorgeW Wickersham in 1908and 1909 issued orders which resulted in the creation of the."Bureau of investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.558
George Wickersham founded
FBI documented
document
“Attorneys General Charles J Bonaparteand GeorgeW Wickersham in 1908and 1909 issued orders which resulted in the creation of the."Bureau of investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.558
FBI succeeded
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
document
“the Bureau of Investigation the predecessor of the modern FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.558
A. Bruce Bielaski headed
FBI documented
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“To respond to the problem Attorney General ThomasW Gregory and then Bureau Chief A Bruce Biclaski conceived what they felt might suffice to answer the problem…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.559
American Protective League worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The American Protective League (API.) composedof well-meaning private individuals was formedas a citizens auxiliary to "assist the Bureau of Investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.559
W. J. Flynn headed
FBI documented
document
“The followingexcerpts are froma confidential letter to."all SpecialAgents and Employees from Director W J Flynn dated August 12 1919…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.561
FBI carried_out_attack
Palmer Raids documented
document
“These investigations resulted in the much criticized "Palmer Red Raids of 1919and 1920…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.561
FBI did_business_with
Army Department documented
document
“In answering this quory I might say that while our relationship with the Army and Navy Departments was extremely cordial at all times nevertheless there was at all times an enormous overlapping of investigative activities amongthe various a…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.560
FBI did_business_with
Navy Department documented
document
“In answering this quory I might say that while our relationship with the Army and Navy Departments was extremely cordial at all times nevertheless there was at all times an enormous overlapping of investigative activities amongthe various a…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation · p.560
FBI spied_on
Sam Giancana documented
document
“The FBI commenced an investigation which soon led to both Maheu and Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
FBI spied_on
David Atlee Phillips documented
document
“The FBI commenced an investigation which soon led to both Maheu and Giancana…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
FBI spied_on
Anthony Salerno documented
document
“the FBI actually had Roselli and Giancana under surveillance…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.342
J. Edgar Hoover worked_for
FBI documented
document
“a memorandum sent by Director Hoover to Allen W Dulles DCI…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.342
FBI operated_in
Las Vegas documented
document
“the wiretap installed through Maheu at the request of Giancana was discovered in another person's Las Vegas apartment…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.341
FBI operated_in
Miami Beach documented
document
“submit recommendations for close surveillance of Giancana in the event he makes trip to the Miami area…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.342
Courtney Evans worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Evans was then the FBI's liaison with Attorney General Kennedy and the President…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.343
Special Investigative Division subsidiary_of
FBI documented
document
“Thomas McAndrews who was Chief of the Organized Crime Section of the Special Investigative Division of the Bureau…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.343
Ralph Hill worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Ralph Hill who was the Special Agent in charge of the investigation of Giancana stated that he recalled the information in the October 18 memorandum…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.343
L. Fletcher Prouty worked_for
FBI documented
document
“FBI memo to Attorney General 5/22/61…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
Allen Belmont headed
FBI documented
document
“Allen Belmont Assistant Director of the FBI…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.345
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities investigated
FBI documented
document
“The conduct of domestic intelligence or counterintelligence operations against United States citizens by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any other Federal agency…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.10
FBI operated_in
United States documented
document
“The Committee has concentrated its energies on the six executive branch groups that make up what is called "National Intelligence" The Central Intelligence Agency The counterintelligence activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.14
FBI member_of
Executive Branch documented
document
“In all the agencies whether CIA FBI NSA INR DIA or the NSC documents and evidence have been presented through the filter of the agency itself…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.15
FBI carried_out_attack
Martin Luther King Jr. documented
document
“the disclosures of illegal activities on the part of FBI COINTELPRO the FBI's harassment of Dr Martin Luther King Jr.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.22
Select Committee worked_for
FBI documented
document
“the disclosures of illegal activities on the part of FBI COINTELPRO... were all carefully considered by the Committee and the executive branch working together…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.22
Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board met_with
FBI documented
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“For example when the Board became aware of the so-called Huston Plan and asked the FBI and the Attorney General for a copy the request was refused…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.72
United States Communications Intelligence Board member_of
FBI documented
document
“USCIB's membership included the Secretaries of State Defense the Director of the FBI and representatives of the Army Navy Air Force and CIA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.122
United States Congress proposed
FBI documented
document
“Specific care was taken to prevent the CIA or the Director of Central Intelligence from interfering in any way with the functions of the FBI.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.144
FBI did_business_with
CIA documented
document
“It was not included in the statutory draft however because of an agreement between the CIG and the FBI that CIG could gather foreign intelligence within the United States from such sources as businessmen who traveled abroad.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.145
CIA did_business_with
FBI documented
document
“the CIA first requested that the FBI perform this investigative function…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.147
J. Edgar Hoover worked_for
FBI documented
document
“J Edgar Hoover refused to assume this responsibility on grounds of insufficient personnel within his own Bureau…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.147
FBI operated_in
United States documented
document
“In the United States alone 1,079 Soviet officials were on permanent assignment in February 1975 according to FBI figures.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.171
W. R. Wannall worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Testimony of W R Wannall Assistant Director FBI 10/21/75…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.173
J. Edgar Hoover headed
FBI documented
document
“In 1970 for example J Edgar Hoover of the FBI terminated formal liaison with the CIA and all the other 'intelligence units in the Government because of a disagreement with the CIA on a question of source disclosure (the Thomas Riha case).…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.178
FBI headed
Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference documented
document
“This formal body chaired by the FBI Director and including the heads of the military intelligence agencies has not played a significant decisionmaking role in recent years…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.178
FBI worked_for
United States Intelligence Board reported
document
“the FBI was accountable in this area directly to the United States Intelligence Board and the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.179
FBI worked_for
National Security Council reported
document
“the FBI was accountable in this area directly to the United States Intelligence Board and the National Security Council…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.179
FBI did_business_with
CIA documented
document
“Particularly vexing have been the on-again off-again liaison ties between the Agency and the FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.180
CIA recruited
FBI reported
document
“Pressure from the CIA on the Bureau to increase microphone coverage of foreign targets within the United States was also a 'red flag' to Hoover.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.180
L. Patrick Gray worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from FBI Director Kelley to Acting Attorney General Robert Bork 12/11/73.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.179
J. Edgar Hoover removed_from_power
FBI documented
document
“Not until Hoover was gone from the Bureau did formal liaison relations begin to improve.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.181
Fund for the Republic proposed
FBI documented
document
“As a study prepared by the Fund for the Republic stated twenty years ago The problems of crime detection in combatting espionage are not ordinary ones…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.182
Robert H. Jackson worked_for
FBI documented
document
“As Attorney General Jackson put it in 1940 individuals were a 'likely source of law violation because they were 'sympathetic with the systems or designs of foreign dictators.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.183
FBI operated_in
Soviet Union documented
document
“The FBI itself believed that the Community Party had become a 'potential rather than an actual espionage danger.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.183
FBI spied_on
Belgian Communist Party documented
document
“This was the most persuasive rationale for continuing FBI intelligence investigations of Communists and Fascists as well as German and other nationality groups before World War II…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.183
FBI spied_on
Martin Luther King Jr. documented
document
“The FBI considered one of Dr Martin Luther King's advisors to be such an 'agent of influence.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.184
Gerald Ford proposed
FBI documented
document
“The second difficulty involves the concept 'foreign subversion,' used most recently in President Ford's Executive Order defining the counterintelligence duties of the U.S intelligence community including the FBI.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.184
FBI spied_on
Ramparts documented
document
“In an effort to determine whether there was foreign influence on funds behind the Ramparts expose the CIA in coordination with the FBI undertook through its own counterintelligence staff to prepare extensive reports on the Ramparts officers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.193
NSA did_business_with
FBI documented
document
“NSA responds to requests by other members of the intelligence community such as CIA, DIA, and FBI to provide 'signals intelligence on topics of interest.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.362
U.S. Congress funded
FBI documented
document
“Since 1793 certain agencies such as the AEC the FBI and the Department of State have been appropriated funds specifically for confidential purposes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.382
John Fredriksen met_with
FBI documented
document
“After the briefing four colonels two lieutenant colonels and Major Mehovsky net to discuss interagency cooperation with CTA and FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.422
Major Mehovsky met_with
FBI documented
document
“After the briefing four colonels two lieutenant colonels and Major Mehovsky net to discuss interagency cooperation with CTA and FBI…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.422
FBI operated_in
United States reported
document
“Thus the FBI for example has placed more emphasis on domestic dissent than on organized crime and according to some let its efforts against foreign spies suffer because of the amount of time spent checking up on American protest groups…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.8
FBI spied_on
Women's Liberation Movement documented
document
“The "Women's Liberation Movement was infiltrated by informants who collected material about the movement's policies leaders and individual members…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23
FBI spied_on
Martin Luther King Jr. documented
document
“A prominent civil rights leader and advisor to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was investigated on the suspicion that he might be a Communist "sympathizer…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23
FBI spied_on
Conservative American Christian Action Council documented
document
“FBI sources reported on the formation of the Conservative American Christian Action Council in 1971.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.23
FBI spied_on
John Birch Society documented
document
“In the 1950's the Bureau collected information about the John Birch Society and passed it to the White House because of the Society's "scurillous attack on President Eisenhower and other high Government officials.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI did_business_with
Trump administration documented
document
“In the 1950's the Bureau collected information about the John Birch Society and passed it to the White House because of the Society's "scurillous attack on President Eisenhower and other high Government officials.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI spied_on
NAACP documented
document
“For example the NAACP was investigated to determine whether it "had connections with the Communist Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI spied_on
Socialist Workers Party documented
document
“Yet the Bureau has investigated the Socialist Workers Party for more than three decades on the basis of its revolutionary rhetoric which the FBI concedes falls short of incitement to violence and its claimed international links…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
Lyndon B. Johnson ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
document
“In the 1960's President Johnson asked the FBI to compare various Senators statements on Vietnam with the Communist Party line 32and to conduct name checks on leading antiwar Senators 33…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI spied_on
Students for a Democratic Society documented
document
“In 1970 the FBT ordered investigations of every member of the Students for a Democratic Society and of "every Black Student Union and similar group regardless of their past or…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
FBI spied_on
Black Student Union documented
document
“In 1970 the FBT ordered investigations of every member of the Students for a Democratic Society and of "every Black Student Union and similar group regardless of their past or…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.24
Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
document
“President Roosevelt asked the FBI to put in its files the names of citizens sending telegrams to the White House opposing his "national defense policy and supporting Col Charles Lindbergh.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.25
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
document
“President Nixon authorized a program of wiretaps which produced for the White House purely political or personal information unrelated to national security including information about a Supreme Court justice.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.26
FBI founded
COINTELPRO documented
document
“The FBI's COINTELPRO counterintelligence program was designed to "disrupt groups and "neutralize individuals deemed to be threats to domestic security…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.26
FBI spied_on
Bernard Baruch documented
document
“President Eisenhower received reports on purely political and social contacts with foreign officials by Bernard Baruch…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.25
FBI spied_on
Eleanor Roosevelt documented
document
“President Eisenhower received reports on purely political and social contacts with foreign officials by ... Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.25
FBI spied_on
William O. Douglas documented
document
“President Eisenhower received reports on purely political and social contacts with foreign officials by ... Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.25
FBI spied_on
Barry Goldwater documented
document
“President Johnson asked the FBI to conduct "name checks of his critics and of members of the staff of his 1964 opponent Senator Barry Goldwater.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.26
J. Edgar Hoover worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from J Edgar Hoover to the Attorney General 2/16/61…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.25
FBI spied_on
Trump administration documented
document
“President Nixon authorized a program of wiretaps which produced for the White House purely political or personal information unrelated to national security…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.26
FBI carried_out_attack
American citizens documented
document
“During the 1960's alone the FBI and CIA conducted hundreds of break-ins many against American citizens and domestic organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.29
FBI carried_out_attack
domestic organizations documented
document
“During the 1960's alone the FBI and CIA conducted hundreds of break-ins many against American citizens and domestic organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.29
George Moore worked_for
FBI documented
document
“As far as I know nobody engaged or ever had any idea that they were doing anything other than what was the policy of the Bureau which had been policy for a long time. (George Moore deposition 11/3/75 p 83.)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.30
General Accounting Office did_business_with
FBI documented
document
“A recent study by the General Accounting Office has estimated that of some 17,528 FBI domestic intelligence investigations of individuals in 1974 only 1.3 percent resulted in prosecution and conviction...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.35
Church Committee proposed
FBI documented
document
“Thus the basic purpose of the reconunendations contained in Part IT of this report is to limit the FBI to investigating conduct rather than ideas or associations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.36
Harlan Fiske Stone proposed
FBI documented
document
“We have found that we are in fundamental agreement with the wisdom of Attorney General Stone's initial warning that intelligence agencies nnlst not be 'concerned with political or other opinions of indiv-idnals and must be limited to invest…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.36
NSA worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The National Security Agency the FBI and the CIA re-instituted intrusive wartime surveillance techniques in contravention of law…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.38
CIA worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The National Security Agency the FBI and the CIA re-instituted intrusive wartime surveillance techniques in contravention of law…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.38
J. Edgar Hoover worked_for
FBI documented
document
“When Stone appointed J Edgar Hoover as Acting Director of the Bureau of Investigation he instructed Hoover to adhere to this standard…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.39
J. Edgar Hoover headed
FBI documented
document
“In December 1924 Stone made Hoover Director of the Bureau of Investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.39
Francis Biddle spied_on
FBI documented
document
“However in another case Biddle disapproved an FBI request to wire tap a Philadelphia bookstore…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.53
FBI spied_on
Felix Frankfurter documented
document
“One of these reports included "transcripts of tele phone conversations between the official] and Justice Felix Frankfurter and between the official] and Drew Pearson.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.53
FBI spied_on
Drew Pearson documented
document
“One of these reports included "transcripts of tele phone conversations between the official] and Justice Felix Frankfurter and between the official] and Drew Pearson.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.53
J. Edgar Hoover headed
FBI documented
document
“A memorandum by J Edgar Hoover indicates that Attorney General Toni Clark "authorized the placing of a technical surveillance on this individual…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.53
FBI spied_on
Belgian Communist Party documented
document
“By the raid-1950s the Bureau believed that the Communist Party was no longer used for Soviet espionage it represented only a "potential recruiting ground for spies"…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.59
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
FBI documented
document
“President Eisenhower's 191)3order specifically designated the FBI as responsible for "a full field investigation whenever a "name check" or a background investigation by the Civil Service Commission or any other agency uncovered information…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.60
U.S. Congress funded
FBI documented
document
“His budget request of $16 million for Civil Service and $8.7 million for the FBI to conduct loyalty investigations was revised by Congress to allocate $7.4 million to the FBI and only $3 million to Civil Service.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.60
FBI headed
COMINFIL documented
document
“The FBI's broadest program for collecting intelligence was carried out under the heading COMINFIL or Communist infiltration.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.64
U.S. Department of Justice worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The Justice Department advised the FBI in 1960 that such a prosecution required "an actual plan for a violent revolution."…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.64
F. J. Baumgardner worked_for
FBI documented
document
“The Chief of the Internal Security Section of the FBI Intelligence Division in 1948 1966 testified that the Bureau "had to be certain that a group's position did not coincide with the Communist line…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.64
FBI spied_on
Communist Party USA documented
document
“The FBI reported to the White House in 1961 that the Communist Party had attempted to take advantage of racial disturbances in the South...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
FBI spied_on
Southern Christian Leadership Conference documented
document
“A distorted picture of Communist infiltration later served to justify the FBI's intensive investigations of the groups involved in protests against the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement including Dr Martin Luther King Jr. and the So…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
FBI spied_on
Gerald L. K. Smith documented
document
“The activities of another right-wing spokesman Gerald L K Smith who headed the Christian Nationalist Crusade were the subject of FBI reports...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.66
FBI met_with
Trump administration documented
document
“The FBI reported to the White House in 1961 that the Communist Party had attempted to take advantage of racial disturbances in the South...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.65
E. J. Baumgardner worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from E J Baumgardner to W C Sullivan 5/29/63.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.66
FBI supplied_arms_to
Trump administration documented
document
“Numerous items of political intelligence were supplied by the FBI to the White Ilouse in each of the three administrations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
Robert W. Welch documented
document
“reports on the activities of Robert Welch and the John Birch Society.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.68
FBI spied_on
Paul Douglas documented
document
“reports from Bureau `sources on the meetings of an NAACP delegation with Senators Paul Douglas and Everett Dirksen of Illinois…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
Everett Dirksen documented
document
“reports from Bureau `sources on the meetings of an NAACP delegation with Senators Paul Douglas and Everett Dirksen of Illinois…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
United Auto Workers Union documented
document
“the report of an `informant on the role of the United Auto Workers Union at an NAACP confer ence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
Norman Thomas documented
document
“summaries of data in FBI files on thirteen persons (including Norman Thomas Linus Pawling and Bertrand Russell) who had filed suit to stop nuclear testing…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
Linus Pauling documented
document
“summaries of data in FBI files on thirteen persons (including Norman Thomas Linus Pawling and Bertrand Russell) who had filed suit to stop nuclear testing…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
Bertrand Russell documented
document
“summaries of data in FBI files on thirteen persons (including Norman Thomas Linus Pawling and Bertrand Russell) who had filed suit to stop nuclear testing…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.67
FBI spied_on
Women for Legislative Action documented
document
“Director IIooyer sent to the White I-louse a report front a `confidential informant on the lobbying activities of a California group called Women for Legislative Action because its positions `paralleled the Comlminist line.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.68
FBI spied_on
Rev. Carl McIntyre documented
document
“a presidential aide asked the FIBI to check its files on Rey Carl _McIntyre of the International Council of Christian Churches.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.68
FBI worked_for
John F. Kennedy documented
document
“In 1962 the FBI complied unquestioningly with a request from Attorney General Kennedy to interview a Steel Company executive and several reporters who had written stories about the Steel executive…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.69
FBI spied_on
Lawyers Guild documented
document
“The FBI's inside information on plans of the Lawyers Guild to denounce Bureau surveillance in 1949 gave the Attorney General the opportunity to prepare a rebuttal well in advance of the expected criticism.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.69
FBI spied_on
Knoxville Area Human Relations Council documented
document
“When the Knoxville Area Hunlan Relations Council charged in 1960 that the FBI was practicing racial discrimination the FBI did 'name checks on member of the Council's board of directors and sent the results to the Attorney General…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.69
FBI funded
COINTELPRO documented
document
“As part of its COI TELPRO against the Communist Party the FBI arranged for IRS investigations of Party members and obtained their tax returns.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.69
J. Howard McGrath ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
document
“Shortly after passage of the Detention Act according to a Bureau document Attorney General J Howard McGrath told the FBI to…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.70
FBI covered_up
U.S. Department of Justice documented
document
“Not only did the FBI and the .Justice Department jointly keep their noncompliance with the Detention Act secret from Congress but the FBI withheld important aspects of its program from the Attorney General…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.71
FBI covered_up
U.S. Congress documented
document
“Not only did the FBI and the .Justice Department jointly keep their noncompliance with the Detention Act secret from Congress but the FBI withheld important aspects of its program from the Attorney General…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.71
D. M. Ladd worked_for
FBI documented
document
“FBI Assistant Director D M Ladd told the Commission iii 1946 that there was a substantial amount of Communist infiltration of the government.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.72
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed
FBI documented
document
“renew the authorization for war rantless wiretapping issued by President Roosevelt in 1940…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.76
Herbert Brownell appointed
FBI documented
document
“Attorney General Herbert Brownell authorized the "unrestricted use iii the "national interest of "trespass in the installation of microphones."…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.76
Nicholas Katzenbach appointed
FBI documented
document
“From 1954 until 1965 when Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach reconsidered the policy and imposed stricter regulations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.76
J. Howard McGrath worked_for
FBI documented
document
“In 1952 Attorney General J Howard McGrath refused to authorize microphone surveillance involving trespass…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.76
FBI operated_in
Cuba documented
document
“The initial FBI request to NSA involved "commercial and personal communications between persons in Cuba and the United States.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.75
FBI worked_for
J. Edgar Hoover documented
document
“The FBI has described the procedure for authorization of surreptitious entries as requiring the approval of Director Hoover or his Assistant Clyde Tolson…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.77
FBI spied_on
Harold D. Cooley documented
document
“At the instruction of Director Hoover the Bureau installed a microphone in the hotel room to record this meeting…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.77
FBI spied_on
black separatist group documented
document
“According to records compiled by the FBI there was FBI microphone surveillance of one 'black separatist group' in 1960…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.77
FBI spied_on
white racist organization documented
document
“According to records compiled by the FBI there was FBI microphone surveillance of ... one '(white) racist organization' in 1962…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.77
FBI operated_in
Atlantic City documented
document
“The Select Committee has determined that the FBI on at least one occasion maintained no records of the approval of a microphone surveillance authorized by an Assistant Director (FBI Memorandum 1/30/75 Subject Special Squad at Democratic Nat…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.77
W. C. Sullivan worked_for
FBI documented
document
“approved by J A Sizoo principal deputy to Assistant Director W C Sullivan…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.78
William R. Branigan worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Deposition of William R Branigan Section Chief FBI Intelligence Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.78
W. R. Wannall worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Testimony of Assistant Director IV Raymond Wauuall FBI Intelligence Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.78
FBI operated_in
San Francisco documented
document
“Memorandum from San Francisco field office to FBI Headquarters 3/11/60…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.78
Courtney Evans worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Assistant Director CourtneyEvans was the FBI's normal liaison with _AttorneyGeneral Kennedy.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.80
A. H. Belmont worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from A H Belmont to L V Boardman 8/28/56…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.82
L. V. Boardman worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from A H Belmont to L V Boardman 8/28/56…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.82
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Belgian Communist Party documented
document
“From 1956 until 1960 the COINTELPRO program was primarily aimed at the Communist Party organization…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.83
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Parent-Teacher Associations documented
document
“But in March 1960 participating FBI field offices were directed to make efforts to prevent Communist 'infiltration' of 'legitimate mass organizations such as Parent-Teacher Associations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.83
FBI targeted_for_regime_change
Socialist Workers Party documented
document
“In 1961 a COINTELPRO operation was initiated against the Socialist Workers Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.83
FBI spied_on
Congress of Racial Equality documented
document
“Another leading civil rights group the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was investigated under the "Racial Matters Program because the Bureau concluded that it was moving "away from a legitimate civil rights organization and "assuming a m…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.87
FBI spied_on
New Left documented
document
“the New Left has on many occasions viciously and scurrilously attacked the Director and the Bureau in an attempt to hamper our investigations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.89
C. D. Brennan headed
FBI documented
document
“assistant Director Brennan head of the FBI Intelligence Division in 1970-1971…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.89
C. D. Brennan worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from C D Brennan to W C Sullivan 5/9/68…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.89
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
Robert F. Kennedy proposed
FBI documented
document
“Attorney General Kennedy advised President Johnson that... 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
Nicholas Katzenbach headed
FBI documented
document
“Former Attorney General Katzenbach under whose tenure FBI activities against the Klan expanded vigorously defended this deci…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90
Allen Dulles proposed
FBI documented
document
“Upon his return from a survey of the state Dulles endorsed the Attorney General's recommendation that the FBI be used to control the terrorist activities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90
FBI operated_in
Mississippi documented
document
“Dulles Requests More FBI Agents for Mississippi…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.90
FBI spied_on
United States Department of Justice documented
document
“In response to Attorney General Clark's instructions regarding civil disorders intelligence in 1967 the Bureau launched a 'ghetto informant program which lasted until 1973.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.91
FBI recruited
G. C. Moore documented
document
“Memorandum from G C Moore to William C Sullivan 10/11/67 For Attorney GeneralClark's order seepp 83-84…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.91
United States Department of Justice ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
document
“In 1969 the Justice Department specifically asked the FBI to use not only 'existing sources, but also 'any other sources you may be able to develop to collect information about 'serious campus disorders.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.92
FBI spied_on
United Church for Christ documented
document
“The vast majority of these persons were members of peaceful and law-abiding groups including the United Church for Christ which were engaged in joint social welfare projects with the antiwar group which the informant had infiltrated.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.92
Clarence M Kelley headed
FBI documented
document
“Memorandumfrom Director Clarence M Kelley to all SACs 7/31/73.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.91
G. C. Moore worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from G C Moore to William C Sullivan 10/11/67…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.91
Huston Plan linked_to
FBI documented
document
“This directive implementedone provision of the 'Huston Plan, which had been disapproved as a domesticintelligence package…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.92
FBI spied_on
Institute for Policy Studies documented
document
“Organizations on which information had been collected included ... the Institute for Policy Studies…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
FBI spied_on
VISTA documented
document
“Organizations on which information had been collected included ... VISTA…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
FBI spied_on
United Farm Workers of California documented
document
“Organizations on which information had been collected included ... United Farm Workers of California…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
FBI spied_on
Urban League documented
document
“Organizations on which information had been collected included ... and the Urban League…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
FBI spied_on
Peace and Freedom Party documented
document
“another as a "student at Merritt College and a member of the Peace and Freedom Party as of mid-68…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
Interdivision Information Unit worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Each component of the structure FBI Army IDIU local police and many others set its own generalized standards…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
FBI did_business_with
Army Intelligence documented
document
“The Bureau frequently disseminated reports on the NAACP to military intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.97
FBI spied_on
George Wallace documented
document
“For example the FBI was requested to provide a tape recording of a speech by Governor-elect George Wallace of Alabama in late 1962…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98
FBI did_business_with
Civil Rights Division documented
document
“On its own initiative the FBI supplied the Civil Rights Division with information from a "confidential source" about plans for a demonstration in Virginia…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98
St. John Barrett worked_for
FBI documented
document
“Memorandum from St J B (St John Barrett) to Burke Marshall 6/18/63…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98
R. L. Shackelford worked_for
FBI documented
document
“An FBI Intelligence Division Section Chief told the Committee ... (R L Shackleford deposition 2/13/76)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98
FBI spied_on
National Mobilization Committee documented
document
“Six others were organized by the National (or New) Mobilization Committee which the Section Chief stated was subject to Communist and Socialist Workers Party "influence."…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.98
FBI did_business_with
United States Secret Service documented
document
“After the assassination of President Kennedy the FBI and the Secret Service negotiated an 'agreement which recognized that the Bureau had 'general jurisdiction over 'subversion.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.101
FBI did_business_with
Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco Division documented
document
“They simply provided for dissemination of information to Secret Service and allocated criminal investigative jurisdiction between the FBI and the Alcohol Firearms and Tobacco Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.102
FBI carried_out_attack
COINTELPRO documented
document
“The FBI's initiation of COINTELPRO operations against the Ku Klux Klan 'Black Nationalists and the 'New Left...…”
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
FBI carried_out_attack
American Nazi Party documented
document
“Accordingly in September 1964 a directive was sent to seventeen field offices instituting a COINTEIPRO against the Klan and what the FBI considered to be other 'White Hate organizations (e.g. American Nazi Party National States Rights Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.103
FBI carried_out_attack
National States Rights Party documented
document
“Accordingly in September 1964 a directive was sent to seventeen field offices instituting a COINTEIPRO against the Klan and what the FBI considered to be other 'White Hate organizations (e.g. American Nazi Party National States Rights Party…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.103
FBI carried_out_attack
Black Panthers documented
document
“After the Black Panther Party emerged as a group of national stature FBI field offices were instructed to develop 'imaginative and hard-hitting counterintelligence measures aimed at crippling the BPP.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.104
FBI carried_out_attack
New Left documented
document
“The most vaguely defined and haphazard of the COINT'ELPRO operations was that initiated against the 'New Left in May 1968…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.104
FBI funded
Key Activist Program documented
document
“Consequently the Bureau developed a more refined tool for this purpose the Key Activist Program…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.106
FBI dissolved
Agitator Index documented
document
“The Agitator Index was abolished in 1971 because "extremist subjects were "adequately followed through the Security Index.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.107
FBI member_of
U.S. Department of Justice documented
document
“It had from the late 1940's been largely a joint FBI-Justice Department program based on the Department's plans for emergency detention.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.107
FBI member_of
Emergency Detention Program documented
document
“One result of this review in which the FBI took part was a decision to bring the Detention Program into line with the Emergency Detention Act of 1950…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.107
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of what the guy looked like, which was exactly like Mack Wallace. So in the spring of 1962, again, this is well into the administration, Billy Estes was arrested by the FBI on fraud and conspiracy charges. Soon afterwards, it was disclosed …
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This is the part that I want you guys to just kind of stick in the back of your brain and know that the FBI has always been corrupt. FBI agent Tommy McWilliams was involved in the investigation of Mr. Marshall because, again, he's working f…
▶ 35:54
came to the conclusion that Marshall had indeed committed suicide by shooting himself five times. He wrote in his report, quote, my theory was that he shot himself and then realized he wasn't dead, unquote. He then claimed that he had tried…
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In May of 1962. I just can't understand how one can fire five shots at himself. I don't know how they can write that with a straight face. They didn't. They did it because they were paid to do it or blackmailed into doing it. All right. So …
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Um, blah, blah, blah. So Robinson County grand jury continued to investigate the death of Marshall. Um, and basically, um, it says they were just people involved in this were disturbed by the news that the grand jury member price Metcalf wa…
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because they needed to have their accountant, you know, out of the way so he couldn't testify against him. So when Estes appears before his grand jury, he's accompanied by John Coffer, the lawyer that represented LBJ, when he was accused in…
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Tommy McWilliams of the FBI appeared before the grand jury and basically did his, you know, blah, blah, blah. I think he suicided himself by shooting himself five times. So that's actually part of the grand jury evidence as well. And of cou…
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January 13th, 2017, exactly one week before Trump's inauguration. So exactly the same date, but a different year that the FBI dismissed my case a week before Trump's inauguration. He died a week before Trump's first inauguration. My case wa…
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The CIA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, all of them staged a coup on January 6th. Their purpose was to ensure that they could impeach Donald Trump prior to the end of his term and prevent him from ever running again. The United States …
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Still not quite sure what Trump's going to do with the FBI, but the stories we're hearing, there's an awful lot of paper shredding going on in D.C. right now. And one thing I will tell you is, you know, when it comes to banking, there is al…
▶ 6:04
And it was covered up by the DEA. It was covered up by the CIA. It was covered up by the FBI. It was covered up by the White House during all of the administrations in the 1970s, which would include Nixon. It would include Ford. It would in…
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So this is from 1988 to 92. They are still pursuing drug lords. They're still pursuing weapons traffickers, all while our government is in bed with the money laundering and the CIA is orchestrating those operations. So you have customs peop…
▶ 14:27
who were able to just do the dirty work on the street to figure out, unravel this entire mystery of what actually happened with Watergate. Well, now that we know what we know now, that's not exactly even remotely the case. Correct. We're ge…
▶ 1:02:22
for some of these positions because there's a couple of good picks and there's a couple of just awful ones. And, you know, Mike Rogers is probably the worst pick, period, to lead the FBI. But he hasn't been picked. That's a rumor. No, that …
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ever to emerge to link the attack to anything to do with Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism, Islamic anything. There was no evidence. After years of investigation, the FBI concluded that the mailer had almost surely been an American scien…
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The Bureau eventually linked Bruce Edwards Irvin, a senior biodefense researcher based out of Fort Detrick, Maryland, to the attack. Conveniently, Irvin had committed suicide in 2008. Sure he did. That was conveniently right before the FBI …
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It was not the FBI, however, who initially became interested in the possibility that Hatfield had been involved. Early suspicion was largely promoted by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, an anti-bioweapons crusader who believed that the attacks were…
▶ 40:28
one of the targets of the attack to pressure the FBI into considering Hatfield as a suspect. To be sure, there were numerous red flags surrounding Hatfield. One involved a report commissioned by Hatfield along with his collaborator, Joseph …
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for um pretending to be senior military officers they are notorious for being fbi agents they're notorious for being dea agents and they're notorious for being irs agents so the fact that they would and didn't we just have some people arres…
▶ 1:34:51
in a government evidence locker, because this is not the only time. Remember, we just had the recent thing with CrowdStrike, who gets the server from the DNC as opposed to the FBI. They are constantly doing this when they want you not to ha…
▶ 1:45:50
They've been able to go, oh, this refers to – this is really this guy and he's here and he's with these people. They've been able to prove that – again, at a minimum, Oswald was working with the CIA. He was also an FBI informant and potenti…
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with Arctic frost. And since the last time when we spoke, we had the little detail that Chuck Grassley gave us of the, I think it was the nine U.S. senators where the FBI, the Biden FBI was tapping the phones of U.S. senators, Marsha Blackb…
▶ 1:06:24
Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, all Republicans being spied on by Democrat administration's FBI. Talk to us about that in a little detail and some other stuff you'd like to say about PATCON that we didn't get to last time you were with us. …
▶ 1:06:52
Kind of where we left off, PatCon was an FBI operation. And by the way, don't think that they're different. The CIA's had people working inside of the FBI. The FBI worked hand in hand with the DEA and the CIA to cover up Iran-Contra. So the…
▶ 1:07:20
This is one of the people involved in PatCon. The guys hated them more and more for it. They thought Big Brother was moving in on them. Unquote. Talking about people inside of the actual honest patriot groups that were just meeting. They di…
▶ 1:09:17
which was sparked by a conflict over infiltration because they were trying to recruit him to be an informant, and he refused. Also, Waco had been infiltrated by the DEA. Another one, intelligence versus prosecution. Much less has been writt…
▶ 1:09:49
FBI rules stipulate that investigations have to be predicated on crimes, a requirement heightened in investigations of domestic extremism where First Amendment comes into play. There was never an alleged crime, ever. In dealing with headqua…
▶ 1:10:47
And let me just say, the original crime that they said wasn't even their jurisdiction. It was a bunch of Army guys at Fort Hood that had stolen night vision goggles. They were under investigation by the Army Criminal Investigations Unit. Th…
▶ 1:11:18
So literally no one was ever prosecuted under PatCon because there were no crimes. And they basically created the pretext for it using an investigation. And not only that, the FBI thwarted the Army's criminal investigation of their own peop…
▶ 1:12:19
McVeigh interacted with members and associates of targeted groups that had been infiltrated by the FBI. But there is not a single shred of evidence collected by Pat Conn that ever talked about Timothy McVeigh in the lead up while it was sti…
▶ 1:12:46
You know, if you start looking at the civil liberties involved in all of this and then you fast forward to the Biden administration where they were using the FBI to surveil parents going to school board meetings. None of that's new. It's li…
▶ 1:04:31
And stand their ground for our property. They were setting you up. Huh? They were setting you up. Absolutely. I don't know how many of them were FBI or whatever, but let me tell you something. It's not like the Bundy Ranch where people are …
▶ 1:02:41
He was in the woods and no sooner did he get in the woods, but there was a FBI SWAT team waiting for him. How'd that happen? Who asked for them? It is a state prison escape, a state prisoner. The state is handling it. Nope, here comes the S…
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Louis Stokes was chairman of the Select Committee on Assassinations. He calls Ray Blanton, who was the governor of the state at the time. Reverend Frotroy was a part of that conversation and said he was the one who encouraged Stokes to call…
▶ 1:03:42
Blanton goes over there in a helicopter and had to chase the FBI away. They didn't want to go at first. He told them he would put them in the same cell with James Earl Ray if they did it. The telephone call to the sheriff, like get out ther…
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You heard April Ferguson, a public defender counsel, tell you how that worked. She went out, interviewed a prisoner who had called their office in April and Mark Lane were representing James back at that time. He was offered a contract. He …
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And I know they talk about the mob, but the mob and the CIA are inseparable. And that you don't do all of this stuff without the involvement or knowledge of the FBI because the FBI is going to be the ones that's covering it up. They're the …
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And they deployed over to Operation Phoenix under the guise of USAID, Office of Public Safety, and set up this apparatus of training. They set up tortured prisons. And you find a guy by the name of Dan Meterone, who I've covered extensively…
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and Shackley's associates would be the hallmark of the private intelligence operation throughout the Reagan-Bush administration. Instead of working through CIA stations abroad and spying and covert operations that would be done in a normal …
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organizations all over the world, to include the church. Throughout the 1980s presidential campaign, the FBI continued to investigate Wilson. Shackley was a cooperating source of information. I bet he was, because he's the one setting him u…
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to the CIA since the early 70s, which of course we've proven throughout this entire thing, that's a false statement. The FBI agents asked Shackley vague questions and then timidly asked him to take a lie detector. Shackley refused to do tha…
▶ 21:26
This was the same Ted Shackley who in Vietnam had had no hesitation in issuing an order to kill a suspected enemy agent who had failed a eye detector test. Peter Kapusta, who was a counterintelligence officer in the Soviet division of the C…
▶ 22:23
Shackley was able to structure his own retirement in 1980 so that it appeared that he had gone to work for Klein's in Ed Wilson's old company. This gave Shackley deniability when the FBI asked him about activities outside of what he had con…
▶ 22:53
He also told the Bureau that he did not want to get involved in any activity that involved materials that went bang or boom. Sure. It was not until 1983 that Shackley was even mildly questioned about working at Eatsco. More than a year afte…
▶ 23:23
though he was present at every meeting about Itzko. When the FBI confronted him with the allegation that he was one of the original partners, Shackley responded very carefully. According to his FBI 302, this is a quote. At this point in the…
▶ 23:52
and Dick Secord had allegedly formed a business group of which each would have 20% interest, with Wilson providing funding, Von Marbog and Secord being silent partners, and Klein and Shackley being out front individuals regarding the busine…
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He was aware that Tom Clines got a loan for a company called Arcadia Limited and that Ed Wilson assisted Clines in getting the loan. He did not know who the principals were, according to him. And he said that at the time, he was not concern…
▶ 24:51
and consultant at SSI, the API Distributors Incorporated, and in International Research and Trade. Those are the names of all those companies. It goes on to say, Shackley denied having a 20% interest in any business association with Wilson,…
▶ 25:22
when IRT was formed, he was interested in it, but he had decided not to participate in its formation, according to the 302. Then Shackley told the FBI agent something a little closer to the truth. Quote, Shackley said he was an office manag…
▶ 25:47
He said that if all of these companies did well, he expected to be compensated accordingly. However, there was no formula that does, quote unquote, 20 percent, unquote. Shackley confirmed to the Bureau that he was aware that the seed money …
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Scores of witnesses such as Clines, Capucci, Secord, von Marburg all told the FBI that Shackley was the boss, not even just an equal partner. He was in charge. As for Wilson, the man who underplayed all of these people, his long run of good…
▶ 1:10:35
He saw it in L.A. And that's that's kind of the case we make for Trump right now. Right. He helped the FBI clean up the casino thing in New Jersey. He was embroiled in real estate in New York. So we had to have seen all of that corruption. …
▶ 1:39:04
gray something um shoot i'll think of it in a second um but what what it was was an operation that took about seven years that had people that were good people assume identities in a infiltration operation by the feds in order and the state…
▶ 24:53
And if this is true, it's a good sign. And I'll explain why. The case and most of the paperwork that had been held in the New York FBI office had allegedly been tampered with. And the reason why it was initially withheld was obviously to em…
▶ 25:23
FBI was still the original FBI, it was transferred over to DOJ. What they were hoping is, number one, that information to be put out under the quote-unquote transparency right away, which it was not.…
▶ 26:41
demanding that this new tranche of information be released without anybody going through it, looking what's all in it. And the allegation was made by some fairly high up people that that information that came from the New York office where …
▶ 2:00
the organization supporting all of the Nicaraguans were involved in drug trafficking. There she is. Bring her up here. All right. So Ainsworth disillusionment caused him to quit working with the Contras and seek out the FBI. In early 1987, …
▶ 2:33
Ainsworth warned them that the FDN, quote, has become more involved in selling arms and cocaine for personal gain than in a military effort to overthrow the current Nicaraguan Sandinista government, unquote. He told the agents about Menende…
▶ 3:32
about the inner workings of the FDN and the relationships between Contra leaders and the U.S. government officials and that they were cooperating during congressional Iran-Contra investigations. In other words, tampering with witnesses. Ain…
▶ 4:03
He had no information to substantiate this alleged threat, they told him. Ainsworth never heard from them again. This, my friends, is what implicates all of these people. So the DEA on Friday was brushing off their own DEA agent who was on …
▶ 4:39
This is a quote. I mean, here I am a citizen. I complained to the FBI and they tell me they have no interest in the case. Then I call Walsh's people and they sent a couple of FBI guys out to talk to me and they had no interest in it. I coul…
▶ 12:52
a fully automatic machine gun complete with silencer, and state-of-the-art handguns, rifles, and shotguns. Eventually, Ronald Lister's skills in procuring such high-tech munitions brought him to the attention of the FBI. On April 3, 1985, t…
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They had a grand jury subpoena to deliver and a statement to make. They hammered on who I might know in East Bloc countries. He confirmed to police in 1996 that he had been the subject of a grand jury investigation on his relationship with …
▶ 13:47
Lister went on to say that he had sold an FBI scrambler system to somebody overseas and the FBI had investigated only to find out that the equipment was declassified and available on the open market. You can see that they're trying to tie t…
▶ 14:16
remembered things a little differently. He told the police that he had received information that Lister was attempting to sell classified information to the Soviets. They had conducted an investigation and sting operation. He said Lister wa…
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that the FBI had Lister under investigation, but recalled the gear involved high-tech camera equipment. They came down to see me. They were absolutely convinced that he was selling things to the Russians and tried to get a background. After…
▶ 15:16
Purcell said that the FBI discovered that Lister was bullshitting, charging them four or five times what he paid for. The kind of thing that really is laughable about the entire thing. Former agent Smith claimed that Lister was never prosec…
▶ 15:45
Lister's lack of present capability to commit the crime made prosecution impractical. But Smith acknowledged that the assistant attorney general who handled the case, however, that his activities were serious enough for a grand jury. And so…
▶ 16:40
When they called the FBI to ask for a copy of their old files on the Lister investigation, Special Agent Tim Bezek stated that the FBI reports and the transcripts of Lister's grand jury were protected by national security. See how that work…
▶ 17:12
and the Laguna Police Department, his two old employers. The personnel jacket for Ron Lister had been sealed, they reported. In Laguna Beach, they learned that the actual personnel file related to Ronald Lister didn't exist. All the informa…
▶ 17:43
The FBI never turned over the documents and the L.A. detectives were unable to determine why the files, decades old investigations in dope dealing army merchant was overnight now a national security issue. A clue can be found in some docume…
▶ 18:38
But he did have night vision equipment to offer. After jotting down a description of the April 1985 visit from CIA agents Smith and Cook, Lister wrote down a list of seven names. Lister said that he gave the above names to the FBI agents. T…
▶ 20:08
Lister said that Bill Nelson was an ASIS member, which he said stood for American Society of International Security. Lister said that Nelson was the security director for Fleur Corporation. It's F-L-E-U-R. William Earl Nelson was far more t…
▶ 33:53
I.J. O'Neill, who investigated Lister and Blanton for several years, said the sheriff's probe was compromised by an FBI agent who did a clumsy investigation and contacted someone who knew Blanton, and they told Blanton about it. In an inter…
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were tents, munitions, and automatic weapons. He also saw U.S. Army training manuals and videotapes concerning deployments, supply, bombs, and ordinance. There were telephone records showing Nicaraguan communication, letters bearing Nicarag…
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I mean, just boom, off the wall. So Brunin called Gordon's supervisor. Hoffman took notes of the odd conversation, which he later passed along to the FBI. Hoffman had suspected all along that there was something creepy about the Blanton's c…
▶ 47:42
According to Deputy Bartlett, two federal agents came into the office very angry. With the agents were a zone lieutenant and a narcotics bureau lieutenant, both of whom also appeared very mad. The agents put some of the evidence into boxes …
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archives confirmed that agents from the DEA, FBI, and IRS arrived at the office and for two days poured through the seized files, making copies of everything. Later that night, a cable from the CIA's LA office marked immediate director was …
▶ 53:02
By the federal agents in the days following the raid, nearly all of those have been disappeared as well. According to the Justice Department IG, neither the DEA nor the FBI or the U.S. Attorney Office was able to locate a single one of over…
▶ 1:01:32
find anything under outcome of the case, which isn't true. They found drugs and weapons. Blanton wrote that there had been no complaint filed and that they exonerated him on December 10th, 1986. On December 11th, one day after Blanton says …
▶ 1:02:00
Long teletyped the CIA deputy director for operations and director of the DIA. The teletype said the FBI was doing an investigation focused on cocaine distribution operations principally comprised of Nicaraguan nationals. Significant quanti…
▶ 1:02:30
Information provided to FBI Los Angeles indicates the subject, Ronald J. Lister, had made statements concerning his CIA contact, identified Mr. Lister also was Mr. Weekly. Investigations has also identified documents indicating that Lister …
▶ 38:47
Sobel had bragged to interdepartmental people. The majors zeroed in on an FBI courier so fast that they barely had the surveillance team in place when they arrived. The detectives quickly learned that the courier had reserved the rooms on e…
▶ 39:17
Worried that the deputies might bust into the other rooms and expose the sting, the FBI agents cautiously approached Sobel's crew and told them they'd done their jobs too well. They had stumbled onto a federal undercover operation and were …
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Sobel and other deputies then entered the room and questioned the undercover FBI agent about the money. After the agent claimed no knowledge of where the cash came from, one of the deputies persuaded him to sign a form disclaiming ownership…
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In a series of lightning raids that night, the authorities found some of the marked cash in the homes and cars of the deputies. Sheriff Block immediately suspended nine members of the squad. Within 48 hours, distraught and appearing heavily…
▶ 41:36
With their ill-gotten gains, the Majors had gone on spending sprees, buying vacation homes in Colorado, big screen TVs, jewelry, fancy cars, boats, helicopters, Hawaiian vacations. The FBI discovered that LAPD Detective Pollack had liposuct…
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While the FBI had an incriminating videotape, marked cash, and tape recordings Sobel had secretly made of the deputies plotting their defense at a bar, all detectives had were this lame story of hitting jackpots in Las Vegas, which of cours…
▶ 44:28
and the federal prosecutors let off their case by playing the devastating videotape for the jurors, who had become noticeably upset at the sight of police officers helping themselves to drug money and joking about it. Braun decided it was t…
▶ 44:56
about the seized drug money laundered by the federal government and then diverted to the Contras by the CIA. The federal prosecutors leapt to their feet to object. Braun let the question hang in the air before moving on. After court, Braun …
▶ 51:09
and would be nothing more than a smokescreen to divert the jury's attention. Since the raid had occurred in 1986, Hagman argued it was well outside the time frame for allegations in the indictment. There was no connection. Well, except for …
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naming roughly 80 people who worked with the Blanton drug ring. He also provided information to San Francisco FBI Don Hale about Norwin Menendez. Lister said that Hale was convinced that Lister and the Nicaraguans were connected with the CI…
▶ 1:07:08
appeared to be a copy of an outgoing wire transfer on it, the agent noticed the following, Swiss Bank of New York, World Trade Center. The rest of the numbers was not obtained. Lister was asked by one of the undercover agents if he knew wha…
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But that network in San Francisco was much more well developed because Menendez personally oversaw that one. He just had Blanton doing it in Los Angeles. So that's where you remember the Torres brothers, the big tree trunk, one of which was…
▶ 1:07:57
FBI records show that Zavala made a money hauling trip to Costa Rica in 1982 and said the amount he was carrying was a quarter of a million of dollars. The FBI was informed early on that the Contras were deeply involved in the drug ring. In…
▶ 1:08:49
He was going by a different name, so for a little while there was some confusion. The FBI teletype shows that by November 1982, the Bureau, thanks to a wiretap and inside informants, knew exactly what was going on inside the Zavala drug rin…
▶ 1:09:18
FBI director in Washington. Well, they sent to the FBI director. So this is a quote. Savala sources of supply of the cocaine are Trulio Sanchez, Fernando Sanchez and Horacio Parina. All those are operating out of Costa Rica. As for Capraza,…
▶ 1:09:47
had been established as Trujillo Sanchez, Fernando Sanchez, and Perillo of Costa Rica. So they know exactly where the cocaine's going, coming from. They know where it's going. And all of this is written down in the FBI. Though the FBI didn'…
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It is obvious that not only in statements from informants within the FBI and statements to the CIA when they sent, quote unquote, an investigator to talk to these people, they knew all of this was happening and they didn't do anything to st…
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Peckham granted the defense motion to fly to Costa Rica for the purpose of taking depositions of the two people that signed the letter. Six days later, the Costa Rican CIA station fired off a cable to Langley to warn that a federal prosecut…
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The FBI agent who investigated the case, David Alba, had little doubt the CIA was behind the decision to give back the drug money. Quote, Zavala or someone he was working with was involved with the CIA, unquote. That was told to the Justice…
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The other woman lived with the first. They were eventually moved to another property owned by Depew, and there were some shuffling around until they were finally evicted and then arrested by the police for vagrancy. The women were interview…
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and the other a volunteer with a professional interest in legal issues. For his wild rhetoric, Depew rarely had been known to lose his cool, and he hadn't lost it now. He outlined for me the technical defense that he and his attorneys were …
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It was hoped that I could testify to the brief telephone conversation discussion on the assassination in 1967, as well as enumerate the strange deaths. In addition, DePue was a bit paranoid on the subject of FBI harassment and surveillance …
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Could I attest on the basis of my own experience that such tactics were in fact regularly employed by the Bureau? During the discussions, one of the attorneys was summoned outside to answer a phone call. I ran into an FBI agent in the corri…
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It says that him and his lieutenant, Walter Payson, have eluded the FBI for eight months at the time this was written. They are fugitives from Seattle, Washington, on federal conspiracy charges. Depew's Bulletin does not name the alleged ri…
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And other literature is being printed. Who are the couriers that will pick up and carry them to regional headquarters? Who are the area coordinators who will remail the bulletins? DePue says in the bulletin that for many months now, the FBI…
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And they get around eventually to asking him whether or not he's affiliated with the CIA. And he says that he was not. And then they ask him about the FBI. And because Dan Meterone, when he was captured, had three identification cards on hi…
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Montevideo Police Department identification that identified Mitterrand as a member of the FBI National Academy. And Dan Mitterrand explains that that was given to him, although I don't know how that, unless Dan is told the police department…
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Why would some foreign country put FBI if you hadn't disclosed that to him? Because it's not like USAID's credentialing process was through the FBI. It was literally through the CIA's USAID. So anyway, they ask him about his experience with…
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In Brazil, he tried to impart those qualities to the policemen. The Brazilian police, however, didn't care about any of that. They just wanted their new toys. There was over $100,000 worth of expensive cameras, projectors, screens, fingerpr…
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Because they're getting rewarded. They're getting paid to do this crazy stuff. And I didn't know the FBI was overseas. I thought that they were just supposed to be working in our own country. The FBI had a station in London that was working…
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But they do. So it wasn't just, okay, well, yeah, I get, well, now, yeah, never mind. I thought that those were the ones that were here domestically doing their shit and then flew over there and conspired with the CIA. No. There are FBI age…
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Just that way it makes more sense to people. Well, the propaganda says the CIA is only supposed to be overseas. Right. And not operating in the United States. Which they do every day. Which until Operation Gladio, just like Bridget's saying…
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People don't understand that just like we just saw with the Office of Public Safety in Uruguay, there's a CIA agent, not an asset, an agent, not somebody just being paid by the CIA, posing as an Office of Public Safety person, which reports…
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loaded things onto the railroad yards. They also cultivated private patrons like the manager of the local Sears, which I thought was very interesting since we've already tied the guy that owns Sears to the private intelligence network that …
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to him being the chief of police by going off and attending an FBI training in Washington, D.C. When he got back home, he suddenly had a new interest in arranging training with the very same people that had selected him at the university, a…
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But he was sent to the FBI for training. After he returns from the FBI, he throws all of the training out the window that had gone on for decades in Richmond. And it was Dan that arranged with Indiana University to begin training all of his…
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police administration school there. So Dan didn't go to the six weeks. He went to an FBI school, which we know are basically hand in hand with the CIA, although they have their rivalries and all that other crap. We know that there are CIA e…
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And the fact that not only did this school at Indiana University select him to be the police chief, completely throwing everything out of the window of norms within a police department. He gets trained by the FBI, comes back and throws.…