THE FBI & COINTELPRO

The FBI'S Illegal COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM

COINTELPRO

IN 1956"The FBI started the program 'Cointelpro'(Counterintelligence Program). The FBI announced that for "security reasons" it was terminating the Program as of April 27, 1971."

"The 'dirty business' included unauthorized bugging and wiretapping; mail opening; warrantless break-ins ("black bag jobs"); anonymously mailing reprints of newspaper and magazine articles (some of them planted in the press by the Bureau itself); disseminating defamatory information regarding individuals, much of it false; encouraging street warfare between violence-prone groups; contacting an employee with derogatory information about a person to get the target fired; using the IRS to harrass individuals and organizations by audit; and so on."

"As one newspaper writer put it, 'almost nothing - beyond lack of imagination - appears to have limited the range of dirty tricks' used by the FBI...'"

"The explanation offered by the Bureau for its illegal acts was that the agency found them to be necessary to protect national security (a catch-all pleading invoked by all federal agencies to justify their lawless conduct); and to prevent violence."

Excerpted From The Freezone Website
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Excerpt Of Jon Roland's Review

FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose by M. Wesley Swearingen, 1994

"Wes Swearingen served as an FBI agent from 1951 until he retired in 1977. During that period he perpetrated or witnessed numerous violations of law by FBI agents and their operatives, heard revealing statements by other agents about their illegal activities, and read files which documented violations of the rights of American citizens."

"The activities of FBI agents and their "informers" include warrantless break-ins, theft, fraud, kidnapping, perjury, fabrication of evidence, suborning of witness perjury, and murder. The targets were political dissidents: anyone FBI agents didn't like."

"Swearingen details how members of the Black Panthers were murdered by FBI operatives, another was framed for a murder he didn't commit, and still others were prosecuted on trumped up charges."

"He describes various files on political dissidents, called the "Security Index" and the "Reserve Index", which eventually included about 500,000 names, and which were the persons to be arrested without warrant and taken to detention areas in the event of a national security emergency."

"Swearingen provides an insider's view of the COINTELPRO program of suppression of political dissidents, but also tells us that the program continues to this day under another name, apparently without a paper trail."

He paints a picture of an agency riddled with corruption, incompetence, and inefficiency, composed of men who may have once been patriots, but who have been reduced to common criminals, whose crime fighting activities are limited at best and largely for show, with political repression being the primary mission."

"There have been other books by former FBI agents that have told similar tales, such as William Turner, author of _Hoover's FBI: The Men and the Myth_, and books by former agents of the CIA, such as those by Philip Agee, John Stockwell, Victor Marchetti, Frank Snepp, and Ralph McGehee."

" It seems likely that similar books remain to be written by agents of almost every agency of the U.S. government, revealing them as criminal enterprises and implicating almost every employee as criminal conspirators. Such agents should read this book and begin gathering the evidence they will need to take out with them."

"The most important thing this book reveals is the mindset of government agents, and the way otherwise good men get corrupted by the system of which they become a part."

"They are totally ignorant of the principles of constitutional republic government, and willing to do whatever works, regardless of legality. Their arrogance was revealed in a statement by Special Agent Joseph G. Deegan in 1977: "We are the only ones who know what is good for the country, and we are the only ones who can do anything about it." After reading this book and others, it is clear that this statement reflects a dangerous delusion of grandeur."

"Anyone who is involved in any kind of politically significant activity, or who is concerned about the future of this country, needs to read this book to learn how government agents operate and how citizens can defend themselves against them, both in court and in the field."

"These agents are not very effective, and people should not be awed by them. Standing up to them works if one exercises a few simple precautions, such as taping all encounters and having witnesses around at all times. Going armed at all times may not be a bad idea, either."

Former FBI Special Agent Wes Swearingen's Book on FBI Corruption -- A Telling Work Describing How The FBI Can No Longer Be Trusted By The American People
http://www.constitution.org/col/mwswear.htm"


What Is Extremely Disturbing In Regard To Wes Swearingen's Expose, And For That Matter The Accounts Of Others, Like Myself, Who Are Being Targeted By The FBI In The Present Day), Is That Its Despicable COINTELPRO Tactics Did Not End In 1971 As The FBI Has Claimed.

In Reality, The FBI's Criminal Neutralization Tactics Of Those People Or Groups That It Does Not Like, Are Still Being Used In This Day And Age Under The Color Of Law, And Are As Vicious And Machiavellian As Ever."

James F. Marino
United States Mind Control Target/Activist


Direct Quotes Regarding The FBI'S COINTELPRO Tactics From Judi Bari's Website

"These guys are professional liars, who have raised selective memory loss to an art form."
-- Judi Bari, Earth First!

"An uncanny ability to lie under oath, commonly referred to as "testa-lying," is a trademark of rogue law enforcement professionals."

"FBI Legacy From the moment of its birth in 1908 as the Justice Department's "Bureau of Investigation," a key part of the FBI's mission has been to suppress political dissent. In the early years they used deportations and the career-destroying Palmer raids to target union leaders and communists."

"Burglary, blacklisting, infiltration, and disruption became standard operating procedure. Later, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Smith Act specifically could not be used to target communists, the FBI took it undercover, developing its "counterintelligence" program dubbed COINTELPRO. In the words of then-director J. Edgar Hoover, COINTELPRO was designed to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" groups whose views the FBI deemed threatening to the status quo."

Judi's Inciteful Book "Timber Wars" Describes How FBI Agent Richard W. Held Orchestrated The Sleazy COINTELPRO Tactics Used Against Judi And Earth First! -- Held Was Also Responsible For Destroying The Lives Of Many Other Activists And People Of Note Including Actress Jean Seberg

http://www.judibari.org/`books_recordings_index.html


America's Secret Police -- Accounts By The Late Activist Judi Bari In Regard To The FBI's Attempt To Destroy Her And The Earth First! Movement --Judi Gives Us A Candid Look At This Federal Criminal Organization

http://www.judibari.org/America