Muslims – Enemies of the State: The New Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)

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SF Chronicle , Sunday June 9^th, 2002.
The SF Chronicle filed a Freedom of Information Request and managed after a 17 years legal fight to obtain documents detailing the scope of FBI operations involving the University of California as well as Ronald Reagan. The released documents included files pertaining to Ronald Reagan's cooperation with the FBI during his years in Hollywood when he served as the President of the Actors Guild Association and naming -names to the agency of individuals with alleged communist links. The record and original copies are found at the following site operated by the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/09/MNCFTIME1.DTL
Tony Allen-Mills, “FBI ‘Lured Dimwits’ into Terror Plot,” The Sunday Times , May 24^th, 2009.
Demian, Bulwa, SF Chronicle, Terror Trial: Defense Admits to Tall Tales, Not Crimes-Informant Says Camp Attendance Never Confirmed, March 3^rd, 2006. See Frontline coverage of the Lodi case in the documentary, The EnemyWithin, and the specific reference to the Informant Naseem Khan. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywithin/lodi/response.html.
Demian Bulwa, “Lodi Terror Trainee Convicted,” SF Chronicle , Wednesday April 26, 2006.
For references to a number of active cases visit the Muslim Legal Defense Fund website at: http://www.muslimlegalfund.org/mlfa/cases. Also, the SF Asian Law Caucus has an ongoing Civil Rights and National Security Project focusing on systematic documentation of instances of FBI harassment and violations of basic rights. The ALC helped form a coalition in SF that culminated in the SF Human Rights Commission holding a September 23^rd, 2010, hearing focusing on FBI violations of Arabs, Muslims and South Asian Rights. Furthermore, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 24^th, 2010, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to speed the release of FBI records on the investigation and surveillance of Muslim communities in the Bay Area. John Solomon, Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations, Washington Post, July 10^th, 2007.
Graham Rayman, “The Alarming Record of the F.B.I.'s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot,” The Village Voice , July 8^th, 2009.
See the article by Jason Leopold and Matthew Harwood, Hacked Intel Email: NYPD Involved in “Damn Right Felonious Activity”, September 4^th, 2012. http://truthout.org/news/item/11326-hacked-intel-email-nypd-involved-in-da
Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression . South End Press, 2002, p. xii.
For materials covering the periods mentioned above see Theoharis, Athan G. The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History, Kansas University Press, 2004. Also, Theoharis, Athan G; Tony G. Poveda, Susan Rosenfeld, Richard Gid Powers. The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide. Checkmark Books, 2000. Also, for good context, read Heidi Bochosian. The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent: A National Lawyers Guild Report on Government Violations of First Amendment Rights in the United States. North River Press, 2004.
Michael Linfield, Freedom Under Fire . South End Press, 1990, p. 136.
Ibid., pp. 136–137.
Church Committee Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, p. 6, 1975.
Ibid., p. 6.
For an over-all context and alterative view of US history see Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Harper Perennial, 2005 edition.
Brian, Glick, War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S Activists and What We Can Do About it , South End Press, 1989, p. 7. The author cites the source in footnote 15, Cowan, Paul, Nick Egleson, and Nat Hentoff, State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974).
Church Committee Report, Book II, Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans , pp. 3–6, 1975.
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, p. 542
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, p. 542
Church Committee Report, Book II, Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans , pp. 6–7, 1975.
Ibid., p. 77.
Ibid., p. 10.
Ibid. p. 78
See Camille T. Taiara, “Students under surveillance? Secrecy surrounding SFSU's routine use of undercover cops to videotape political events raises concerns.” SF Bay Guardian , June 18^th 2003. “A civil lawsuit accusing San Francisco State University of discriminating against Arab and Muslim student activists has revealed that the university routinely uses undercover cops to videotape political events on campus, according to a sworn deposition by SFSU police chief Kim Wible.”
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Activist-Richard-Aoki-named-as-informant-3800133.php#ixzz27W3W3PpC
See the documents at http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/documents/nypd-msa-report.pdf
See http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu_eye_on_the_fbi_-_mosque_outreach_03272012_0_0.pdf
http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu_eye_on_the_fbi_-_mosque_outreach_03272012_0_0.pdf
Brian, Glick, War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S Activists and What We Can Do About it , (Date?) p. 10
Church Committee Report, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation, p. 367
James X. Dempsey and David Cole, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security , The First Amendment Foundation, 1999, p. 37.
Nick Schou, “The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who was Conning Whom?,” Orange Coast Weekly , April 30^th, 2009.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Anonymous, Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America, Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. The ISBN for the hard cover edition is 0-06-052819-2
http://old.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory062603.asp
For a clear treatment of this subject see Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression , South End Press, Third Edition, 2002. Also, M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose , South End Press, 1995. See the edited work of Cathy Perkus, COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom , Monad Press, New York, 1975.

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[1] SF Chronicle , Sunday June 9^th, 2002.

[2] The SF Chronicle filed a Freedom of Information Request and managed after a 17 years legal fight to obtain documents detailing the scope of FBI operations involving the University of California as well as Ronald Reagan. The released documents included files pertaining to Ronald Reagan's cooperation with the FBI during his years in Hollywood when he served as the President of the Actors Guild Association and naming -names to the agency of individuals with alleged communist links. The record and original copies are found at the following site operated by the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/09/MNCFTIME1.DTL

[3] Tony Allen-Mills, “FBI ‘Lured Dimwits’ into Terror Plot,” The Sunday Times , May 24^th, 2009.

[4] Demian, Bulwa, SF Chronicle, Terror Trial: Defense Admits to Tall Tales, Not Crimes-Informant Says Camp Attendance Never Confirmed, March 3^rd, 2006. See Frontline coverage of the Lodi case in the documentary, The EnemyWithin, and the specific reference to the Informant Naseem Khan. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/enemywithin/lodi/response.html.

[5] Demian Bulwa, “Lodi Terror Trainee Convicted,” SF Chronicle , Wednesday April 26, 2006.

[6] For references to a number of active cases visit the Muslim Legal Defense Fund website at: http://www.muslimlegalfund.org/mlfa/cases. Also, the SF Asian Law Caucus has an ongoing Civil Rights and National Security Project focusing on systematic documentation of instances of FBI harassment and violations of basic rights. The ALC helped form a coalition in SF that culminated in the SF Human Rights Commission holding a September 23^rd, 2010, hearing focusing on FBI violations of Arabs, Muslims and South Asian Rights. Furthermore, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Bay Guardian on August 24^th, 2010, filed a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to speed the release of FBI records on the investigation and surveillance of Muslim communities in the Bay Area. John Solomon, Gonzales Was Told of FBI Violations, Washington Post, July 10^th, 2007.

[7] Graham Rayman, “The Alarming Record of the F.B.I.'s Informant in the Bronx Bomb Plot,” The Village Voice , July 8^th, 2009.

[8] See the article by Jason Leopold and Matthew Harwood, Hacked Intel Email: NYPD Involved in “Damn Right Felonious Activity”, September 4^th, 2012. http://truthout.org/news/item/11326-hacked-intel-email-nypd-involved-in-da

[9] Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression . South End Press, 2002, p. xii.

[10] For materials covering the periods mentioned above see Theoharis, Athan G. The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History, Kansas University Press, 2004. Also, Theoharis, Athan G; Tony G. Poveda, Susan Rosenfeld, Richard Gid Powers. The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide. Checkmark Books, 2000. Also, for good context, read Heidi Bochosian. The Assault on Free Speech, Public Assembly, and Dissent: A National Lawyers Guild Report on Government Violations of First Amendment Rights in the United States. North River Press, 2004.

[11] Michael Linfield, Freedom Under Fire . South End Press, 1990, p. 136.

[12] Ibid., pp. 136–137.

[13] Church Committee Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, p. 6, 1975.

[14] Ibid., p. 6.

[15] For an over-all context and alterative view of US history see Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Harper Perennial, 2005 edition.

[16] Brian, Glick, War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S Activists and What We Can Do About it , South End Press, 1989, p. 7. The author cites the source in footnote 15, Cowan, Paul, Nick Egleson, and Nat Hentoff, State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974).

[17] Church Committee Report, Book II, Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans , pp. 3–6, 1975.

[18] Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, p. 542

[19] Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States, p. 542

[20] Church Committee Report, Book II, Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans , pp. 6–7, 1975.

[21] Ibid., p. 77.

[22] Ibid., p. 10.

[23] Ibid. p. 78

[24] See Camille T. Taiara, “Students under surveillance? Secrecy surrounding SFSU's routine use of undercover cops to videotape political events raises concerns.” SF Bay Guardian , June 18^th 2003. “A civil lawsuit accusing San Francisco State University of discriminating against Arab and Muslim student activists has revealed that the university routinely uses undercover cops to videotape political events on campus, according to a sworn deposition by SFSU police chief Kim Wible.”

[25] Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Activist-Richard-Aoki-named-as-informant-3800133.php#ixzz27W3W3PpC

[26] See the documents at http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/documents/nypd-msa-report.pdf

[27] See http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu_eye_on_the_fbi_-_mosque_outreach_03272012_0_0.pdf

[28] http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/aclu_eye_on_the_fbi_-_mosque_outreach_03272012_0_0.pdf

[29] Brian, Glick, War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S Activists and What We Can Do About it , (Date?) p. 10

[30] Church Committee Report, Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation, p. 367

[31] James X. Dempsey and David Cole, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security , The First Amendment Foundation, 1999, p. 37.

[32] Nick Schou, “The FBI, the Islamic Center of Irvine and Craig Monteilh: Who was Conning Whom?,” Orange Coast Weekly , April 30^th, 2009.

[33] Ibid.

[34] Ibid.

[35] Ibid.

[36] Ibid.

[37] Anonymous, Terrorist Hunter: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman Who Went Undercover to Infiltrate the Radical Islamic Groups Operating in America, Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. The ISBN for the hard cover edition is 0-06-052819-2

[38] http://old.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory062603.asp

[39] For a clear treatment of this subject see Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression , South End Press, Third Edition, 2002. Also, M. Wesley Swearingen, FBI Secrets: An Agent's Expose , South End Press, 1995. See the edited work of Cathy Perkus, COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom , Monad Press, New York, 1975.