And now:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Department of Justice, created by congress in 1870, received a budget of $50,000 in the following year for investigating and prosecuting federal crimes. In 1906 the department formed its own private Bureau of Investigation, which allied with Chicago businessman A.M.Briggs in 1917. Briggs was the founder of the anti-labor vigilante organization, the American protective league, which had helped Justice Department investigators track down draft evaders, and had been accused of assassinating labor leader Frank little in Montana. After WWI, in 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer led the Justice Department in a crackdown on suspected "aliens who are members of the anarchistic classes." He was assisted in his efforts by twenty-four year old Justice Department Investigative lawyer J Edgar Hoover. on the night of January 2, 11920, ten thousand people were arrested across the country in what became known as the notorious Palmer Raids. The questionable conduct of the age! ! ! nts in the fields brought accusations against the Justice Department hat its investigators were out of control. Palmer replied that "alien agitators" were seeking to destroy US homes and religion, and that if "some of my agents...were a little rough or unkind...I think it might be overlooked." It was. In the 1960s the FBI turned its attention to civil rights movement among the southern blacks. Released FBI documents reveal that in 1961 the FBI passed information about two Freedom Rider buses to Thomas Cook, a Ku Klux Klan member in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1963, Hoover's chief aide, William Sullivan, suggested that the FBI find and support a black leader "to take [Martin Luther] King's place." King became a central target of the FBI. The FBI Counterintelligence Program, known inside the bureau as COINTELPRO, sought to "prevent the rise of a 'messiah' who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement." [FBI Memo, "Airtel to SAC Albany,"c.1968; reprinted by National Lawyers Guild in Counter-intelligence, January, 1980] In the 1970s the FBi turned its COINTELPRO agents onto the New Left, and when traditional Indians began protesting, the FBI turned its attention to the AIM and its leaders. One FBI memo released through the Freedom of Information Act recommends a "full investigation of local AIM chapters, it s leaders and members," and adds that "Any full investigation involves a degree of privacy invasion and that of a person's right to free expression." After exposure of Durham, an FBI document states: " As a result of certain disclosures regarding informants, AIM leaders have dispersed, have become extremely security conscious and literally suspect everyone." [FBI Memo, Re;"American Indian Movemen5t, Investigative Techniques," c. 1975] FBI documents also reveal that friendly media were used extensively against AIM as they had been used to discredit martin Luther King and other black leaders. The use of the media took two forms: the manipulation of information to the general media, and the feeding of stories to the willing, cooperative media. In 1978, the National lawyers Guild published a list of national media that had cooperated with the FBI COINTELPRO operations [Public Eye, National Lawyers Guild, Washington, DC, April, 1978] That list included the Hearst Newspaper chain, Associated Press (NY), New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, Los Angeles Examiner, US News and World Report, Arizona Daily Star, other newspapers, and radio and television stations. An FBi memo dated march 13, 1973 outlines how a Seattle radio reporter, Clarence McDaniels, was used as an unwitting informer during the Wounded Knee siege. McDaniels was sent to Wounded Knee by Seattle radio station KIXI and used by UPI because he was trusted by Indians whereas the UPI reporter was not able to gain that trust. Little did McDaniels know, however, that KIXI was working in league with the FBI. The memo from Washington, DC headquarters to the Minneapolis Field office reads: "McDaniels is expected to continue furnishing complete coverage of activities at Wounded Knee to KIXI by phone and tapes. He will be requested to do a special story on Seattle area participants. he is unaware that his stories are not be publici! ! ! zed in full or that the intelligence information and his tapes are being furnished to the FBI. KIXI officials request he not be contacted at Wounded Knee; however, if any specific information is needed by the FBI, KIXI is willing to pass on the request as normal duty assignment with no reference to the FBI." [FBI Memo, Headquarters to Minneapolis, teletype, March 3, 1973, Re: "Media, KIXI, Seattle, Washington"] The military - FBI siege at Wounded Knee was later revealed as part of the Defense Department domestic counterinsurgency plan code named Garden Plot. In 1975, Reporter Ron Ridenhour, who had exposed the My Lai massacre story, exposed Garden Plot in New times magazine. The plan involved military training for state and local police units in preparation for suspected domestic insurgency uprisings. the martial law network included the FBI, Army, navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Federal Marshals Service, Highway Patrol, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams, and riot police. Domestic war games were held in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona under the direction of the Pentagon. The plan seemed frightening to some members of Congress when the details were first exposed to public scrutiny. Claire Burener, congressman from California, called Garden Plot,"subversive." Britt Snider, an investigator with Senator Frank church's Select committee on Intelligence, sa! ! ! id t hat "If there ever was a model for takeover, this is it." Wounded Knee was the first opportunity for the Pentagon to actually take the revolution war games into the field. According to Watergate causality John Ehrlichman the Pentagon wanted to go "full scale." he wrote that US Marshal Wayne colburn had wanted to attack the village "Colburn was for going in strongly," wrote Ehrlichman in a letter to Marlon Brando. he apparently authorized the marshals to return fire, and on a given night, thousands of rounds would be fired." The paramilitary Garden Plot troops were trained at the Marine Corps Reconnaissance Commando School, Camp Pendleton, California; the Military School at Fort Gordon, Georgia; and at the FBI national Academy in Quantico, Virginia.... [excerpted from Rex Wehler, Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War against the American Indian Movement" Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. <><<<<<>>>>><><<<<> Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ <><<<<<>>>>><><<<<>
