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</font><h2><b>Three days of deceit in Omaha Two case by FBI and Omaha
Police</b></h2>
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<li><font size=3>By
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/user-richardsonreports">Michael
Richardson</a>, COINTELPRO Examiner
<li>March 31st, 2011 11:33 am ET
</ul><b>Omaha Two story: Oct. 12-14, 1970<br><br>
October 12, 1970</b> <br><br>
William C. Sullivan, the third in command of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation and head of Domestic intelligence, was principal architect
and administrator of
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/crimes-of-cointelpro-heard-at-northeastern-law-school-seminar">
COINTELPRO</a>. The massive counter-intelligence operation was
ordered by
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/j-edgar-hoover-gave-order-to-let-policeman-s-killer-get-away-with-murder">
J. Edgar Hoover</a> to combat political forces he deemed
dangerous.<br><br>
On October 12, 1970, William Sullivan made his only public statement on
the Omaha Two case. Sullivan’s boss, J. Edgar Hoover, never talked
openly about the case of
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/prison-interview-with-ed-poindexter-on-cointelpro-and-the-omaha-police">
Edward Poindexter</a> 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 in
<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>. The two men were then in the Douglas County
Jail waiting trial for the August 17th bomb murder of an Omaha policeman,
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/omaha-patrolman-larry-minard-killed-ambush-bombing-after-911-call">
Larry Minard, Sr</a>.<br><br>
Sullivan monitored COINTELPRO daily for Hoover and was on the copy list
of the COINTELPRO memos involving the Omaha Two.. The case came up
in a rare public speech to a United Press International
conference.<br><br>
Sullivan falsely denied any FBI role in any :conspiracy against the Black
Panthers. About Minard’s death, Sullivan would say to the gathered
reporters and correspondents: “On August 12, 1970 [sic] and Omaha,
Nebraska police officer was literally blasted to death by an explosive
device placed in a suitcase in an abandoned residence. The officer
had been summoned by an anonymous telephone complaint that a woman was
being beated [sic] there. An individual with Panther associations
has been charged with this crime.”<br><br>
Sullivan went on describing a variety of violent acts for which he blamed
the Black Panthers including the deaths of rival group members that later
would be discovered to be COINTELPRO-instigated shootings.
Dismissing the growing body of evidence that there was some sort of
coordinated national effort against the Black Panthers that used illegal
tactics, Sullivan complained:<br><br>
“Panther cries of repression at the hands of a government “conspiracy”
receive the sympathy not only of adherents to totalitarian ideologies,
but also of those willing to close their eyes to even the violent nature
of hoodlum “revolutionary” acts,” said Sullivan.<br><br>
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<b>October 13, 1970<br><br>
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</b>
<a href="http://www.examiner.com/cointelpro-in-national/cointelpro-plan-hatched-omaha-to-withhold-evidence-of-policeman-s-killer">
Paul Young</a>, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Omaha FBI office, sent
a COINTELPRO memo to J. Edgar Hoover following up on the 911 recording of
Larry Minard’s killer he had sent to the FBI Laboratory. Young had
earlier requested, and Hoover agreed, that no laboratory report on the
analysis of the voice would be made.<br><br>
Young updated Hoover on the case: :Assistant COP GLENN GATES, Omaha
PD, advised that he feels that any uses of this call might be prejudicial
to the police murder trial against two accomplices of PEAK and,
therefore, has advised that he wishes no use of this tape until after the
murder trials of Peak and the two accomplices has been
completed.”<br><br>
The COINTELPRO memo continued, “no further efforts are being made at this
time to secure additional recordings of the original telephone
call.”<br><br>
<b>October 14, 1970<br><br>
</b>Murdock Platner, Captain of the Omaha Police Department, was in
Washington, D.C. to testify before U.S. House Committee on Internal
Security about the Omaha Two case. Platner was under oath and testified
to a different source for the dynamite than that alleged by Duane Peak,
the 15 year-old confessed bomber, at the preliminary hearing two weeks
earlier.<br><br>
Peak’s story was that Black Panther treasurer, Raleigh House, who was
never prosecuted, was the supplier of the dynamite that killed
Minard Captain Platner told a different story under oath to the
Committee just two weeks after the preliminary hearing:<br><br>
“Duane Peak, a 16-year old boy who was arrested, testified in a
preliminary hearing. It is from this preliminary hearing you are
bound over to the district court to stand trial. In the preliminary
hearing he testified that David Rice brought a suitcase filled with
dynamite to his house or to somebody’s house, I’m not for sure just which
place; that they removed all the dynamite from the suitcase except three
sticks, made the bomb, the triggering device, and so on, and put it
together; and then packed the suitcase with newspapers and that he left
with this suitcase.”<br><br>
When Committee members began asking Platner questions about his sworn
testimony he backed off and declared, “I don’t know what I should
say.”<br><br>
Platner would also travel to Washington to testify before the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee where he would tell a similar story, but with
different amounts of dynamite confiscated by police in the summer of
1970. <br><br>
Neither of Platner’s trips, nor his conflicting dynamite testimony, was
ever reported by the Omaha news media. <br><br>
The stage was now set for the trial of Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa
for the murder of Larry Minard, Sr.<br><br>
<b>To view all 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>
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<br>
</i>Michael Richardson<br>
COINTELPRO Examiner<br>
Examiner.com<br><br>
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