Does FBI/CIA U.S. Gov't Terrorism ?
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Does FBI/CIA U.S. Gov't Terrorism ? Afeni Shakur NATIONAL TASK FORCE FOR COINTELPRO LITIGATION AND RESEARCH Speaking on Assata Shakur and Geronimo Pratt Ahmed Obafemi R.N.A. -11 NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE (Republic of New Africa) Muntu Matsimela AFRIKAN PEOPLES PARTY Speaking on the Human Rights Campaign Jeffrey Haas LAWYER FOR FRED HAMPTON/MARK CLARK , , SUIT /7 SPEAKER ON THE L. Patrick Gray Suit Friday, June 23 7:30 p.m. Horace Mann Auditorium 120th St & Bway Donation $2 Childcare Provided Fred Hampton EXPOSE COINTELPRO! Benefit for Naf I Task Force on COINTELPRO Litigation & Research and Nat'l RNA-11 Defense Committee SPONSOR MAY 19th COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION COINTELPRO: A WAR TERM 1961 CONGO Patrice Lumumba assassinated by CIA. 1965 USA Malcolm X assassinated on February 21 in Harlem. 1966 GHANA Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, is overthrown by US/CIA coup. 1967 BOLIVIA Ernesto Che Guevara assassinated by CIA agents. USA Start of Ghetto Information Program — employing up to 7,^02 informers — in response to urban rebellions. Activists in Revolutionary Action Movement arrested on trumped up conspiracy charges to kill Roy Wilkins and other civil rights leaders. 1968 VIETNAM Phoenix Pacification Program, a CIA project, results in "neutralization" of over 20,000 cadre of the National Liberation Front. USA Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis by White Citizens Council. 1969 USA Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, members of the Black Panther Party, murdered in Chicago during an assault planned by FBI and local law enforcement agencies, 1970 USA Ralph Featherstone and Che Payne, members of SNCC, killed by explosion in Maryland. H. Rap Brown forced underground. 1971 USA Republic of New Africa headquarters attacked by FBI and local police agencies. President Imari Obadele and ten New Afrikans arrested. 1972 USA Geronimo Pratt convicted on fabricated charges of murder. 1973 USA Assata Shakur, Sundiata Acoli and Zayd Shakur attacked by state troopers on New Jersey Turnpike as part of nationwide hunt for Black Liberation Army. 1 97U USA Richard Taft, doctor at People's Drug Program that was developing acupuncture treatment, murdered. A people's investigation points to CIA involvement. 1976 ANGOLA CIA conducts secret war to stop struggle for freedom. WHAT DO ALL THESE EVENTS HAVE IN COMMON? They are instances of the international and national counterintelligence programs instituted by the FBI and CIA under the direct authority of US presidents, in response to heightened struggles by oppressed peoples against US imperialism. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE IS TERRORISM. Internally this program was known as COINTELRPO; its main targets: the Native American, Puerto Rican, Chicano/Mexicano and Black Liberation Struggles. "The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit and otherwise neutralize the activities of Black Nationalists' hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokes- men, membership and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence and civil disorder." — Memo from FBI headquarters (August 25, 1967) BUT HAVEN'T THESE ACTIVITIES STOPPED? WHAT'S CURRENTLY HAPPENING IN THE NEWS? March 30. 1978; New FBI chief, William Webster, says that "combatting terrorism" is one of the FBI's four top priorities. (New York Times) 1977 - 1978; Puerto Rican independence movement is attacked by grand Juries. Ten Puerto Rican and Chicano/Mexicano activists are Jailed up to 11 months. April 1_U, 1978: J. Wallace LaPrade, when removed as head of FBI's New York office because of his involvement in (and subsequent coverup of) illegal activities in search of the Weather Underground, discloses that "FBI is still conducting such investigations under authorization from President Carter and Attorney General Bell." (New York Times) April, 1978; Assata Shakur, afterbeing found innocent of all charges in New York, was transferred to maximum security women's prison in Alderson, W. Va., to prevent appeal on her conviction in New Jersey and the further pursuit of her struggle to expose COINTELPRO attacks against her. April, 1978; In the wake of a shoot-out in Brooklyn, in which Mariano Dalou Gonzalez is murdered and two policemen are killed, and Eric Jomp Thompson is arrested and beaten while in custody, a major media campaign is launched, spreading the spector of terrorism to justify increased repressive actions such as the reinstitution of the death penalty. May 16, 1978; Supreme Court rules to extend powers of police to use phone surveillance. May 20, 1978; David Trung, a Vietnamese student, and Ronald Humphrey are convicted of spying in an atmosphere of reactionary coldwar hysteria..