FBI = third KKK?
While the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had paid informants in the Klan, for instance in Birmingham in the early 1960s, its relations with local law enforcement agencies and the Klan were often ambiguous. The head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, appeared more concerned about Communist links to civil rights activists than about controlling Klan excesses against citizens. In 1964, the FBI's COINTELPRO program began attempts to infiltrate and disrupt civil rights groups.
In
1932, the bureau was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation.
(Here's 91 on the mirrored side of the looking glass of 32, just like RT91 Festival was to floor 32- seen in the media released hotel photo post Vegas Massacre).
J. Edgar Hoover was chiefly responsible for creating the Scientific Crime Detection
Laboratory, or the FBI Laboratory, which officially opened in
1932, as part of his work to professionalize investigations by the government.
In his
1991 memoir, Washington Post journalist Carl Rowan asserted that the
FBI had sent at least one anonymous letter to King encouraging him to commit suicide.[28] Historian Taylor Branch documents an anonymous November
1964 "
suicide package" sent by the Bureau that combined a letter to the civil rights leader telling him "
You are done. There is only one way out for you..." with audio recordings of King's sexual indiscretions.
According to attorney Brian Glick in his book
War at Home, the
FBI used four main methods during
COINTELPRO:
Infiltration: Agents and informers did not merely spy on political activists. Their main purpose was to discredit and disrupt. Their very presence served to undermine trust and scare off potential supporters. The FBI and police exploited this fear to smear genuine activists as agents.
Psychological warfare: The FBI and police used myriad "dirty tricks" to undermine progressive movements. They planted false media stories and published bogus leaflets and other publications in the name of targeted groups. They forged correspondence, sent anonymous letters, and made anonymous telephone calls. They spread misinformation about meetings and events, set up pseudo movement groups run by government agents, and manipulated or strong-armed parents, employers, landlords, school officials and others to cause trouble for activists. They used bad-jacketing to create suspicion about targeted activists, sometimes with lethal consequences.
The
FBI allowed four innocent men to be convicted of the March 1965 gangland murder of Edward "Teddy" Deegan
in order to protect Vincent Flemmi,
an FBI informant. Three of the men were sentenced to death (which was later reduced to life in prison), and the fourth defendant was sentenced to life in prison. Two of the four men died in prison after serving almost 30 years, and two others were released after serving
32 and
36 years. In July 2007, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner in Boston found that the Bureau had helped convict the four men using false witness accounts given by mobster Joseph Barboza. The U.S. Government was ordered to pay $100 million in damages to the four defendants.
In 1982, the
FBI formed an
elite unit to help with problems that might arise at the
1984 Summer Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, particularly
terrorism and
major-crime. Also formed in
1984 was the
Computer Analysis and Response Team, or CART.
During the
September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, FBI agent Leonard W. Hatton Jr. was killed during the rescue effort while helping the rescue personnel evacuate the occupants of the South Tower, and he stayed when it collapsed. Within months after the attacks,
FBI Director Robert Mueller, who had been sworn in a week before the attacks, called for a re-engineering of FBI structure and operations. He made countering every federal crime a top priority, including the prevention of terrorism, countering foreign intelligence operations, addressing cyber security threats, other high-tech crimes, protecting civil rights, combating public corruption, organized crime, white-collar crime, and major acts of violent crime.[49]
In February 2001
, Robert Hanssen was caught selling information to the Russian government. It was later learned that Hanssen, who had reached a high position within the FBI, had been selling intelligence
since as early as 1979. He pleaded guilty to treason and received a life sentence in 2002, but the incident led many to question the security practices employed by the FBI. There was also a claim that Hanssen might have contributed information that led to the September 11, 2001, attacks.[50]
The 9/11 Commission's final report on July 22, 2004, stated that the
FBI and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were both partially to blame for not pursuing intelligence reports that could have prevented the September 11, 2001, attacks.
The Post reported, from Zegart's book, that government documents showed that both the CIA and the FBI had missed
23 potential chances to disrupt the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Faulty bullet analysis
For over 40 years, the FBI crime lab in Quantico had believed that lead alloys used in bullets had unique chemical signatures.
The FBI is also charged with the responsibility of enforcing compliance of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 and investigating violations of the act in addition to prosecuting such violations with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
(the same rights it conspired against as documented above).
The
FBI Laboratory, established with the formation of the BOI,[71] did not appear in the
J. Edgar Hoover Building until its completion in
1974.
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