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Part 4 of the Omaha Two story is about the formation of a COINTELPRO unit
by the Omaha FBI and the targeting of Black Panthers by J. Edgar
Hoover. See link for article, slideshow, and video of Ed Poindexter
talking about COINTELPRO.<br><br>
Article:
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-fbi-sets-up-cointelpro-unit-and-j-edgar-hoover-targets-black-panthers">
http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-fbi-sets-up-cointelpro-unit-and-j-edgar-hoover-targets-black-panthers</a>
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Ed Poindexter COINTELPRO video only:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6du9MHBVRBM">
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6du9MHBVRBM</a> <br><br>
</font><h2><font size=4><b>Omaha FBI sets up COINTELPRO unit and J. Edgar
Hoover targets Black Panthers</b></font></h2><font size=3>By
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports">Michael
Richardson</a>, COINTELPRO Examiner<br>
March 13th, 2011 5:05 pm ET <br><br>
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</a><b>Omaha Two story: April 3, 1968<br><br>
</b>Paul Young, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Omaha office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent a report to Director
<a href="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</a>, on April 3, 1968. Young’s airtel was in
response to Hoover’s directive a month earlier to establish a
counter-intelligence operation for clandestine activity.<br><br>
Young wrote Hoover that an agent had been assigned to coordinate the
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/jericho-movement-launches-petition-to-reopen-cointelpro-cases">
COINTELPRO</a> operation against “Black Nationalist” activity.
Young said, “There is currently no organized Black Nationalist Movement
within the Omaha Division.”<br><br>
Young also told Hoover that there was only one Black Nationalist on the
“Agitator Index” list maintained by the Bureau office. Further,
“There are no organizations or individuals in the Omaha Division
presently considered of potential danger as to be considered for
Counterintelligence action.”<br><br>
However, Paul Young was well versed in the art of survival working under
Hoover’s watchful glare where any perceived slight would damage a
career. Young wrote: “Omaha has no suggestions to offer at
the present time regarding the over all Counterintelligence Program or
administration of this program. It is felt, however, that this
program can be very beneficial to the Bureau in helping to prevent the
coalition of militant Black Nationalist Groups and violence on their
part.” <br><br>
The next day, April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in
Memphis, Tennessee.<br><br>
Rioting broke out in numerous cites and 50,000 National Guard troops
nationwide were ordered into the streets to maintain order. The
Nebraska National Guard was ready for action.<br><br>
The recently formed Black Panthers for Self-Defense, organized in
California, experienced a surge in membership as chapters began around
the country. Hoover’s COINTELPRO operation against the Black
Nationalist movement now had real targets, the Black Panthers.<br><br>
On September 8, 1968, Hoover told the New York Times that the Black
Panthers were the “greatest threat to internal security of the
country.” <br><br>
Ten days after identifying the Black Panthers as the most serious
domestic threat to the nation Hoover testified to the Eisenhower
Commission investigating racial unrest. Hoover lashed out against
“vicious, hate-filled black extremists.”<br><br>
On September 27, 1968, FBI official George Moore, head of the “Racial
Intelligence” section sent a COINTELPRO memo to William Sullivan, head of
Domestic Intelligence, proposing an accelerated counter-intelligence
operation against the Black Panthers. From that point on, both men
would monitor COINTELPRO actions against the Panthers and personally
review reports from FBI field offices, including Omaha.<br><br>
Sullivan was a veteran of dirty tricks and had led the FBI surveillance
and harassment of Martin Luther King. Sullivan would later testify
to the U.S. Senate that his COINTELPRO agents took a “no holds barred”
approach to the war on the Panthers.<br><br>
Moore would survive both Hoover and Sullivan and continued his nefarious
ways at the FBI after the formal end of COINTELPRO in 1971. Moore
was involved in withholding investigative information in Operation
Newkill in New York in 1974.<br><br>
One Omaha man unaware of the sudden rise of the Black Panthers and the
secret FBI campaign against the group was
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-ed-poindexter-on-cointelpro-and-the-omaha-police">
Ed Poindexter</a>. Ed was in the U.S. Army, stationed overseas in
Germany and Vietnam. A volunteer, Ed joined the service a
half-decade earlier and was caught up in military life during the turmoil
of the 1960’s.<br><br>
As Paul Young, Omaha’s FBI Special Agent-in-Charge, crafted a plan to
satisfy Hoover’s COINTELPRO mandate, Poindexter was finishing up his tour
of duty at Fort Benning in Georgia. Revolution was not on
Poindexter’s mind, instead landing a job at the Post Office in Atlanta
was Ed’s immediate goal upon discharge.<br><br>
Ed Poindexter’s introduction to the Black Panthers that he would later
lead in Omaha came innocently enough with a newspaper clipping about the
group from his sister. As Ed discharged from the Army he had no way
of knowing his military service would later be used against him by
prosecutors determined to convict him for a bombing murder of an Omaha
policeman.<br><br>
Ed Poindexter and another Omaha man, Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice)
are now serving life sentences for the 1970 murder of patrolman
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/larry-minard-was-the-policeman-betrayed-by-j-edgar-hoover-to-frame-the-omaha-tw?cid=parsely#parsely">
Larry Minard, Sr</a>. The Omaha Two, as the men are called today, were
convicted following a controversial trial and have been imprisoned for
the last four decades. <br><br>
The jury that convicted the Omaha Two was unaware that J. Edgar Hoover
had personally ordered the
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/attorney-tim-ashford-on-the-withheld-911-tape-of-the-omaha-two-case?cid=parsely#parsely">
withholding of evidence</a> about the identify of Minard’s killer and
that the prosecution of the two men was carefully managed from FBI
headquarters by George Moore and William Sullivan.<br><br>
<b>To view all of the Omaha Two story articles click
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/omaha-two-story-in-national">HERE<br><br>
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Panthers - National Cointelpro | Examiner.com</a>
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</a>Michael Richardson<br>
COINTELPRO Examiner<br>
Examiner.com<br><br>
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