[Peace-discuss] Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement

[David Johnson]

Yes,

Interesting that you mention Blogojevich.

Supposedly Blogojevich was under FBI investigation for over two years, but it was the VERY NEXT DAY, after Blagojevich made a speech at the Republic Window and Door Workers rally, that he was arrested in the early AM hours.
At the rally Blogo stated that as Governor he was going to suspend ALL State of iLLINOIS banking business with Bank of America until the wages, etc. of the Republic Window Workers was resolved. Since it was revealed that Bank of America was colluding with Republic Windows.
Coincidence or not, timing usually says it all.

David Johnson

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karen Medina 
  To: David Johnson 
  Cc: Peace-discuss 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 8:55 AM
  Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement


  Yes, the FBI was, and still does, seem like two very different groups. One more CIA-like -- discrediting people, creating lies, torturing people, creating anger and hatred -- the other actually solving some crimes (that their colleagues didn't commit) -- like Blagojevich for instance.


  -karen







  On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:02 PM, David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:

    Here is an interesting example of the FBI undercover operations in the South during the 1960's ;

    " In one particularly controversial 1965 incident, white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen, who gave chase and fired shots into her car after noticing that her passenger was a young black man; one of the Klansmen was Gary Thomas Rowe, an acknowledged FBI informant.[53][54] The FBI spread rumors that Liuzzo was a member of the Communist Party and had abandoned her children to have sexual relationships with African Americans involved in the Civil Rights Movement.[55][56] FBI records show that J. Edgar Hoover personally communicated these insinuations to President Johnson.[57][58] FBI informant Rowe has also been implicated in some of the most violent crimes of the 1960s civil rights era, including attacks on the Freedom Riders and the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.[53] According to Noam Chomsky, in another instance in San Diego, the FBI financed, armed, and controlled an extreme right-wing group of former Minutemen, transforming it into a group called the Secret Army Organization that targeted groups, activists, and leaders involved in the Anti-War Movement, using both intimidation and violent acts ".

    It is almost as if there were TWO FBI's with different policies and priorities, which of course could not be the case, especially with Hoover in charge.

    David Johnson
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Karen Medina 
      To: David Johnson 
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      David Johnson wrote: > Was this part of the FBI's cointelpro program ?


      The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission started completely as a state of Mississippi entity. But it lasted over, three possibly four governor's terms. The FBI had nothing to do with it at first. The FBI entered the scene in 1964 when the 3 "Freedom Summer" campaign volunteers disappeared. The FBI was investigating the disappearance -- so they were working on the opposite side from the commission.    


      Later, toward the end of the commission's long life, there were people who were paid by the commission who were also sharing information with the FBI -- the commission was paying police officers who served "the public", the Klan, and the commission. They shared reports.


      At least that is the way I understand it. 


      -karen



          I just enjoyed a book:
          "Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement"
          by Rick Bowers 








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