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

[Rohn Koester]

More about the formal relationship between the FBI and corporate
America: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_Security_Alliance_Council

This was the organization that infiltrated Occupy and alerted the NYSE
about Occupy's plans weeks ahead of time.





On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:23 AM, David Johnson
<davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>> Cc: Peace-discuss
>> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 6:08 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the
>> Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> -- karen medina
> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark
> Twain
>
>
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