[Ppnews] Omaha Two story: (Part 5) Hoover directs COINTELPRO against Omaha Black Panthers
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Greetings!
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover personally monitored
COINTELPRO operations in field offices, including
Omaha. See link for article, slideshow of
COINTELPRO documents, and video of Mondo we Langa:
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-directs-cointelpro-plot-against-omaha-chapter-of-black-panthers>http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-directs-cointelpro-plot-against-omaha-chapter-of-black-panthers
Mondo we Langa video
only:
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJY7FUPPmjg>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJY7FUPPmjg
J. Edgar Hoover directs COINTELPRO plot against
Omaha chapter of Black Panthers
* By
<http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports>Michael
Richardson, COINTELPRO Examiner
* March 14th, 2011 9:43 pm ET
Omaha Two story: Oct. 5, 1968
On the same day
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/george-wallace-rally-omaha-triggered-riot-after-demonstrators-were-beaten>George
Wallace’s appearance triggered a riot in Omaha,
Nebraska in March 1968, the director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/fbi-s-director-hoover-let-killer-of-omaha-policeman-get-away-with-murder-40-years-ago>J.
Edgar Hoover, included
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-fbi-sets-up-cointelpro-unit-and-j-edgar-hoover-targets-black-panthers>Omaha
on the list of FBI offices expected to conduct
counter-intelligence actions against “Black
Nationalist” groups. Hoover’s order expanded the
existing illegal and clandestine COINTELPRO
operation designed to “disrupt” targeted organizations.
In September 1968, Hoover announced the Black
Panther Party to be the “greatest threat” to
internal security in America. Hoover required
regular reports from FBI field offices on
progress made to break the organization and remove the leadership.
On October 5, 1968, Paul Young the Special
Agent-in-Charge of the Omaha FBI office sent a
memo to Hoover informing him the Black Panthers
had formed two chapters, one in Omaha and the second in Des Moines, Iowa.
Young wrote: "Since submission of the last
quarterly letter two Black Nationalist
Organizations have become active in the Omaha
area, namely the Black Panther Party in Omaha,
Nebraska, and the Black Panther Organization,
Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa. The Omaha group
consists of approximately 20-25 members and to
date, its activity has been limited to twice weekly meetings.”
Young told Hoover that the Des Moines Panther
group seemed only concerned with obtaining
“anti-poverty funds for the purpose of financing an Afro-American Festival.”
More ominously, Paul Young wrote: “It is
anticipated that in the near future [REDACTED]
and [REDACTED] might be targets of counter
intelligence action as well as the organizations
of which they are leaders. The Black Panther
group in Omaha has vaguely discussed in general
terms creating violence, however, it has taken no
positive action in this regard to date.”
Eddie Bolden was the Omaha Panther leader whose
name was redacted from the classified COINTELPRO airtel memorandum.
Young closed his report: “This matter will be
closely followed by Omaha and any future
suggestions for counter intelligence action
against the Black Panther Party and Black Panther
Organization, Inc. will be submitted by separate letter.”
On October 10, 1968, five days after the Omaha
COINTELPRO memo to Hoover on Black Panthers in
the city, George C. Moore sent a COINTELPRO memo
to William C. Sullivan. Moore was head of Racial
Intelligence at the FBI headquarters and Sullivan
was head of domestic intelligence. Both men
oversaw COINTELPRO operations in the field for
Hoover who demanded to be kept informed.
Moore’s memo outlined his own plan to drive a
wedge between the Black Panthers and the Student
Non-violent Coordinating Committee. Moore
recommended planting a story with a cooperative
media outlet titled “Panther Pinheads” as a
counter-intelligence action “to help neutralize” Panther influence over SNCC.
Moore wrote to Sullivan: “There is a feud
between the two most prominent black nationalist
extremist groups, the Black Panthers and
SNCC. Attached item notes that the feud is being
continued by SNCC circulating the statement that:
“According to zoologists, the main difference
between a panther and other large cats is that
the panther has the smallest head.”
Sullivan and Moore both followed reports from the
FBI field offices when they weren’t scheming
plots like the “Pinheads” plan. The two
officials’ names appear on many of the COINTELPRO
memos sent to FBI headquarters from Special
Agent-in-Charge Paul Young in Omaha.
On October 23, 1968, Hoover responded to a
proposal from Young to start a rumor campaign
against Eddie Bolden of the Omaha chapter of the
Black Panthers. Hoover wrote, “Proposals for
counterintelligence measures against the Black
Panther Party
have merit and are worthy of more detailed consideration.”
Hoover told Young: “The utilization of your
sources and informants to spread gossip in the
ghetto area concerning BPP leaders and members
must be done on a selective basis so as to
preclude tracing the origin of the gossip to the
FBI. This is an effective but risky maneuver and
you must insure that your informants are not
compromised. Prior to taking such maneuvers, you
must identify the informants you intend to use in
this program and the rumors they will
spread. Spell out tangible results you expect to
obtain from spreading the rumor or rumors you recommend.”
The FBI director ended his memo to the Omaha
office, “You are again reminded that no action
should be taken on any specific proposals without prior Bureau authority.”
While J. Edgar Hoover was telling the Omaha
Special Agent-in-Charge to revise his COINTELPRO
proposal against Bolden and the Black Panther
chapter, George Moore was also busy in Washington, D.C.
Four days after Hoover’s memo to the Omaha FBI
office, Moore wrote to William Sullivan about the
Black Panthers seeking authority so “the
counterintelligence program against this
organization be accelerated and that each office
submit concrete suggestions as to future action to be taken against the BPP.”
Moore warned the Black Panthers were “rapidly
expanding” and violence-prone. “It therefore, is
essential that we not only accelerate our
investigations of this organization and increase
our informants in the organization but that we
take action under the counterintelligence program to disrupt the group.”
Moore closed the memo, “Our counterintelligence
program may bring about results which could lead
to prosecution of these violence-prone leaders
and active members, thereby thwarting their
efforts to perpetrate violence in the United States.”
Two Omaha men did eventually get prosecuted with
COINTELPRO dirty tricks,
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-ed-poindexter-on-cointelpro-and-the-omaha-police>Ed
Poindexter and
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-mondo-we-langa-on-cointelpro-and-omaha-two-case>Mondo
we Langa (formerly David Rice). Both men are now
serving life sentences for the murder of an Omaha
policeman, a crime they deny.
To view all the Omaha Two story articles click
<http://www.examiner.com/omaha-two-story-in-national>Here
Permission granted to reprint
Continue reading on Examiner.com:
<http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-directs-cointelpro-plot-against-omaha-chapter-of-black-panthers#ixzz1GgJFhL46>J.
Edgar Hoover directs COINTELPRO plot against
Omaha chapter of Black Panthers - National
Cointelpro | Examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-directs-cointelpro-plot-against-omaha-chapter-of-black-panthers#ixzz1GgJFhL46
Michael Richardson
COINTELPRO Examiner
Examiner.com
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