[Peace-discuss] SF Chronicle-FBI illegally harassed UC professors

[Peter Miller]

Who thinks we'll hear an apology?  (When the "watch dog press" gets on 
them, I'm sure they'll come around.)
-Peter


>Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:13:25 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: Documents Link FBI to '60s Efforts to Ruin Career of Clark Kerr, 
>Newspaper Reports
>
>This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education
>(http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: peterm at shout.net
>
>   Monday, June 10, 2002
>
>   Documents Link FBI to '60s Efforts to Ruin Career of Clark
>   Kerr, Newspaper Reports
>
>   The San Francisco Chronicle reported over the weekend on more
>   than 200,000 pages of Federal Bureau of Investigation
>   documents showing that the bureau had engaged in unlawful
>   activities at the University of California for years,
>   including a campaign to ruin the career of Clark Kerr, who was
>   the university's president from 1958 to 1967.
>
>   The newspaper obtained more than 200,000 pages of documents
>   after a 17-year legal fight over their release. According to
>   the paper, the FBI schemed with the head of the CIA to harass
>   students, faculty members, and members of the university's
>   Board of Regents. The bureau also sent the White House
>   derogatory allegations about Mr. Kerr, even though the FBI
>   knew they were false.
>
>   The newspaper also reports that the FBI developed a close
>   relationship with then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, who had made
>   controlling campus unrest a major part of his 1966 campaign
>   for governor. The bureau secretly gave Governor Reagan's
>   administration information about protesters.
>
>   The FBI has declined to comment on the files, and the office
>   of Ronald Reagan referred questions to Edwin Meese III, who
>   served as Governor Reagan's chief of staff. Mr. Meese told the
>   newspaper that Mr. Reagan did have a longstanding relationship
>   with the bureau, but said he knew of no special political help
>   it had given to Reagan.
>
>   The articles and several of the FBI memos can be seen at the
>   newspaper's Web site.