Archive for the 'COINTELPRO' Category
The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE
May 18th, 2008In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer I’m going to […]
FBI Informant Manages to Entrap Three Hapless Twits ‘Ecoterrorists’… Barely
May 9th, 2008
The American Corporate State employs a full time counterinsurgency infrastructure with resources that are unimaginable to most would be insurgents. Quite simply, violent insurgents have no idea of just how powerful the foe actually is. Violent insurgents typically start out as peaceful, idealistic, political activists. Whether or not political activists know it, even with very […]
Activist Under FBI Investigation Found Dead in Lake, Hands and Legs Bound, Eyes Covered with Duct Tape; Police Leaning Toward Suicide Ruling
April 22nd, 2008Via: American Statesman: Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes. Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference […]
FBI Tracked King’s Every Move
April 1st, 2008Via: CNN: Hoping to prove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was under the influence of Communists, the FBI kept the civil rights leader under constant surveillance. The agency’s hidden tape recorders turned up almost nothing about communism. But they did reveal embarrassing details about King’s sex life — details the FBI was able to […]
Google Supplying Search and Collaboration Systems to U.S. Intelligence Agencies
March 31st, 2008Via: Telegraph: Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects. Agencies such as the National Security Agency have bought servers on which Google-supplied search technology is used to process information gathered by networks of spies around the world. Google is also providing the […]
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer: Client-9
March 11th, 2008UPDATE #2: Spitzer Working Municipal Bond Rescue Plan at Time of Revelation Woh. I guess I’ll throw a check mark in the Coincidence box as well. What else? This one seems to have it all! Why do we know that Spitzer is Client-9? Who are clients X, Y and Z? Via: Financial Times: One investment […]
National Dragnet Is a Click Away
March 6th, 2008Ministry of Pre-Crime and Magic 8 Ball Affairs. Via: Washington Post: The expanding police systems illustrate the prominent roles that private companies play in homeland security and counterterrorism efforts. They also underscore how the use of new data — and data surveillance — technology to fight crime and terrorism is evolving faster than the public’s […]
From New Hampshire to the New Zealand Bush: How Not to Run an Insurgency
October 15th, 2007What do Ed and Elaine Brown and Tame Iti have in common? Their groups were infiltrated, compromised, watched, recorded, left, right, up, down and otherwise by state security services from beginning to end. Via: Stuff: So far at least 12 people have appeared in court, facing charges under the Firearms Act and have been remanded […]
Federal Agents Disguised as Supporters Arrest Ed and Elaine Brown
October 6th, 2007When I first heard about the Ed and Elaine Brown situation, I wrote: Ed has been inviting people to his property to show support for him and the issues. Insurgency 101: Don’t start a war with a powerful enemy and then issue a press release asking people you don’t know to show up and support […]
Special Operations Prepared for Domestic Missions
June 24th, 2007Full throttle fascism. Via: Washington Post: The U.S. Northern Command, the military command responsible for “homeland defense,” has asked the Pentagon if it can establish its own special operations command for domestic missions. The request, reported in the Washington Examiner, would establish a permanent sub-command for responses to incidents of domestic terrorism as well as […]
