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</a></font><h2><font size=4><b>J. Edgar Hoover signed off on secret
COINTELPRO plan to guide Omaha police</b></font></h2>
<ul>
<li><font size=3>By
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports">Michael
Richardson</a>, COINTELPRO Examiner
<li>March 30th, 2011 11:14 am ET
</ul><b>Omaha Two story: Aug. 22, 1970<br><br>
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<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-patrolman-larry-minard-killed-ambush-bombing-after-911-call">
Larry Minard, Sr</a>. was buried on Thursday following one of the largest
funerals in the city’s history. The father of five was buried on
his 30th birthday, July 20, 1970.<br><br>
Minard, an Omaha police officer, had been killed by an ambush bomber,
lured to the deadly trap by an anonymous 911 call about a woman screaming
at a vacant house.<br><br>
On August 21, 1970,
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-fbi-sets-up-cointelpro-unit-and-j-edgar-hoover-targets-black-panthers">
Paul Young</a>, Omaha Special Agent-in-Charge called FBI Headquarters snd
requested a FBI Laboratory Supervisor travel to Omaha “for the purpose of
furnishing technical guidance”. to local police.<br><br>
There was a break in the case the next day when a warrant for murder was
issued on August 22, 1970, against 15 year-old Duane Peak, the alleged
bomber.<br><br>
Chairman of the National Committee to Combat Fascism
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-ed-poindexter-on-cointelpro-and-the-omaha-police">
Ed Poindexter</a> was also arrested. The headquarters of the Black
Panther affiliate chapter were raided that same day. <br><br>
The evening of August 22nd the home of
<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, was raided and dynamite was
purportedly found in the basement. Mondo was in Kansas City
speaking at a rally for Black Panther Pete O’Neal who was facing federal
gun charges.<br><br>
In Washington D.C. a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent named W.W.
Bradley followed up on a
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/crimes-of-cointelpro-heard-at-northeastern-law-school-seminar">
COINTELPRO</a> memo written three days earlier about the killer of
Patrolman Minard.<br><br>
COINTELPRO was
<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>’s illegal, clandestine counter-intelligence operation
directed against political activists Hoover disapproved of. The
Black Panthers bore the brunt of the sometimes lethal dirty
tricks.<br><br>
Bradley had earlier passed on Omaha Special Agent-in-Charge Paul Young’s
recommendation, approved by Hoover, to not issue a laboratory report on
the analysis of a recording of Minard’s killer’s voice. <br>
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-gave-order-to-let-policeman-s-killer-get-away-with-murder">
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Ivan Willard Conrad</a>, FBI Laboratory director, called Hoover when he
got Bradley’s August 19th memo on the case. Conrad noted Hoover’s
approval to withhold a report on the memo, initialing and dating the
notation.<br><br>
Bradley wanted to make sure the correct people were charged with the
murder and recommended approving Young’s request to send Headquarters
staff to Nebraska to steer the investigation.<br><br>
In a heavily redacted COINTELPRO memorandum, not released until years
later, Bradley wrote to Conrad: “In referenced memorandum [8/17/70]
the Director approved a request to assist the Omaha Police Department in
captioned case through the use of [REDACTED}.”<br><br>
More redactions follow then the memo continues: “The SAC [Special
Agent-in-Charge] noted that he had been instructed by the Bureau to
suggest steps of possible assistance to the Omaha Police in solving the
bombings. He advised technical guidance of the type requested
would provide maximum immediate assistance particularly since the
[REDACTED].”<br><br>
The COINTELPRO plan to help Omaha police solve the crime by sending out
headquarters staff followed the withholding of a laboratory report
on the identity of Larry Minard’s killer showing the true purpose of
assistance was not aiding a search for truth.<br><br>
The confidential memo was sent to the same distribution list as Bradley’s
earlier memorandum. The plan was reviewed by Hoover personally and
the memo bears his “OK” and distinctive “H” initial. <br><br>
One by one, the COINTELPRO conspirators would add their names to the
paper trail of deceit led by the “Master of Deceit“ himself, J. Edgar
Hoover..<br><br>
Also signing the memo sealing the plot to direct the course of the case
was George Moore. Although not on the copy list, George Moore was the
head of the Racial Intelligence division and daily helped manage the
COINTELPRO operation.<br><br>
Both Bradley and Conrad initialed the document. When Hoover gave
his blessing to a counter-intelligence proposal with his own pen his
subordinates acted quickly putting their signatures or initials in
place.<br><br>
Back in Omaha the round-up of suspects continues through the
weekend. On Sunday there is a rally at Kountze Park to raise bail
money for those in custody. A group of 200 listen to activist Ernie
Chambers.<br><br>
Monday morning at 3:42 a.m. the math-science building at the University
of Wisconsin in Madison was bombed killing a graduate student.
Recent bombings shattered the Midwest heartland in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, and Nebraska putting law enforcement officers on edge.<br><br>
Meanwhile, Hoover got around to reviewing the COINTELPRO action being
planned against Ed Poindexter proposed before the bomb murder. On
August 15, 1970, Paul Young wrote to Hoover proposing to exploit an
article in the <i>Omaha World-Herald</i> about the local Black Panther
chapter. Young wanted to get Poindexter in trouble with the
national headquarters for his purported cooperation with “Whitey’s
newspaper”, the <i>Omaha World-Herald</i>.<br><br>
Hoover gave approval to the bogus letter plan but advised: “It is
suggested you include several misspellings to make the letter appear more
authentic….Take the usual security precautions to insure this letter and
mailing cannot be traced to the Bureau.”<br><br>
Hoover concluded his authorization, “This should be an excellent
disruption technique.”<br><br>
<b>To view all of the Omaha Two articles click
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/omaha-two-story-in-national">HERE</a><br>
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</b><i>Permission granted to reprint<br><br>
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</i>Michael Richardson<br>
COINTELPRO Examiner<br>
Examiner.com<br><br>
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