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<font size=3>The Omaha FBI office was under pressure from J. Edgar Hoover
to disrupt the Omaha Black Panthers and planned an ambush, see link for
article and slideshow of COINTELPRO memorandums:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/united-airlines-helped-omaha-fbi-with-ambush-plot-against-black-panthers">
http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/united-airlines-helped-omaha-fbi-with-ambush-plot-against-black-panthers</a>
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</font><h2><font size=4><b>United Airlines helped Omaha FBI with ambush
plot against Black Panthers</b></font></h2>
<ul>
<li><font size=3>By
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports">Michael
Richardson</a>, COINTELPRO Examiner
<li>March 22nd, 2011 10:14 am ET
</ul><b>Omaha Two story: Jan. 26, 1970<br><br>
</b>Paul Young, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-s-ugly-racial-history-includes-a-1919-downtown-lynching-and-mob-riot-1">
Omaha, Nebraska</a> office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was a
troubled man. Young’s boss,
<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>, was unhappy with him. Hoover wanted Young to
“destroy” the leadership of Omaha’s Black Panther affiliate chapter,
called the
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-informed-of-united-front-against-fascism-omaha">
United Front Against Fascism</a>, and Young had not taken
action.<br><br>
Hoover first ordered Paul Young to participate in an illegal
counter-intelligence operation, code-named
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/crimes-of-cointelpro-heard-at-northeastern-law-school-seminar">
COINTELPRO</a>, on
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/george-wallace-rally-omaha-triggered-riot-after-demonstrators-were-beaten">
March 4, 1968</a>, a year and a half earlier on a day of rioting in
Omaha, triggered when George Wallace supporters beat demonstrators with
metal chairs at an Auditorium Arena campaign rally.<br><br>
On
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-directs-cointelpro-plot-against-omaha-chapter-of-black-panthers">
October 23, 1968</a>, Hoover wrote to Young that although he wanted
“measures” taken against the Black Panthers, “You are again reminded that
no action should be taken on any specific proposals without prior Bureau
authority.”<br><br>
As 1968 rolled into 1969 Hoover became more impatient with Young and
ordered the Omaha FBI office to make COINTELPRO updates every two weeks
instead of quarterly.<br><br>
On
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-police-officer-kills-14-year-old-vivian-strong-triggering-race-riot-1">
June 27, 1969</a>, Hoover wrote to Young, “It is apparent that the
counterintelligence program of the Omaha Office has not been effective
and needs a new approach.”<br><br>
However, no “new approach” yielded any results and on
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-orders-omaha-fbi-to-be-imaginative-against-black-panther-leaders">
December 10, 1969</a>, Hoover again ordered Paul Young to take action
against the Black Panthers in Omaha. <br><br>
Hoover wrote: “Evaluate your approach to this program and insure
that it is given the imaginative attention necessary to produce effective
results. Handle promptly and submit your proposals to the Bureau
for approval.”<br><br>
Special Agent-in-Charge Paul Young finally came up with a plan to ambush
the Panthers when they went to Eppley Airport to pick up shipments of the
Black Panther newspaper and prevent distribution of the newspaper in the
community.<br><br>
On January 26, 1970, Young wrote to Hoover: “The United Front
Against Fascism (UFAF) is the only BPP affiliated organization presently
active with the Omaha Division. At present the only known source of
income of the UFAF is money derived through the sale of the Black Panther
newspaper which arrives in Omaha weekly via United Airlines.”<br><br>
Young continued: “Contact is presently being maintained with United
Airlines to ascertain if a regular pattern exists for the pickup of this
newspaper by [REDACTED] a known UFAF member to whom these papers are
consigned. As soon as this pattern is established, Omaha
contemplates initiating counter intelligence measures aimed at disruption
of the distribution of this newspaper.”<br><br>
Young learned from United Airlines that the weekly pick-up schedule was
altered in January 1970 upsetting his planned action. On February
24, 1970, Paul Young wrote to Hoover of the difficulty he was having
implementing his COINTELPRO proposal.<br><br>
Young wrote: “Since BPP Headquarters has changed its policy
concerning the publishing of theis newspaper to demanding that payment
for these newspapers be received at BPP Headquarters prior to the time
the newspaper goes to the printer, no papers have been received in Omaha
from the San Francisco area. In recent communications from San
Francisco, it appears that arrangements are being made to have further
shipments of the BPP Newspaper sent to Omaha and contact is maintained
with United Airlines Air Freight so that the Omaha Office will be
apprised when regular shipments of the newspaper to Omaha are
resumed.”<br><br>
Young continued, “Once these shipments are resumed, United Airlines Air
Freight will be contacted on a continuing basis in order to determine if
a regular pattern is established for the pickup of these newspapers by
UFAF members,. Once a pattern is established for the pickup of
these newspapers, counter intelligence measures will be aimed at
disruption of the distribution of these newspapers.”<br><br>
The COINTELPRO memo from Omaha was read by Hoover and bears his
distinctive “H” initial.<br><br>
In March 1970, Omaha patrolman James Loder was acquitted in the death of
14 year-old Vivian Strong the previous summer. Loder had shot
Vivian in the back of the head near her home at the Logan Fontenelle
housing project when she and other youth ran from police making an
unrelated arrest. The shooting of Vivian Strong had triggered
several days of rioting in Omaha and remains controversial on the Near
North Side to the present time.<br><br>
Also in March, the FBI director used his annual appearance at the House
Appropriations Committee to discuss the FBI budget as a bully pulpit
against the Black Panthers warning the committee members about the threat
facing America from the Black Panthers.<br><br>
Realizing that Hoover could not be put off much longer with inaction on
the airport ambush, Paul Young proposed an anonymous letter and phone
call operation against UFAF leader
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-ed-poindexter-on-cointelpro-and-the-omaha-police">
Ed Poindexter</a>.<br><br>
Events in Omaha were inextricably moving to a climax that ended with the
conviction of Ed Poindexter and
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-mondo-we-langa-on-cointelpro-and-omaha-two-case">
Mondo we Langa</a>, then David Rice, for the murder of an Omaha police
officer. Both men deny any involvement in the crime and are now
known as the Omaha Two.<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>
</a></b><i>Permission granted to reprint<br><br>
</i>Michael Richardson<br>
COINTELPRO Examiner<br>
Examiner.com<br><br>
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