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The CIA spying on the "Peace Movement": a view from another time

Epimenedes | 18.02.2003 21:17

In 1968 the CIA had prepared the document below on spying on the 'Black Power' and 'Peace Movement': you can bet similar documents are now flying around

[Internal security] Proposed Joint Effort of __________________ and Office of Security in Acquiring Assets in the "Peace" and "Black Power" Movements in the United States [Merrimack will be reorganized into three compartmented activities: penetrations (of WSP, SDS, SNCC, Quaker Action Group and the Friends Service Committee, US Committee to Aid the National Liberation Front of Vietnam, National Mobilization Committee, Lawyers Committee on American Policy toward Vietnam, and CORE), demonstrations (agents will participate and collect information), and surveillance (on East and West Coast for clandestine operational support). Plans, security, and coordination with the FBI are discussed]. Memorandum, Howard J. Osborn, Dir. of Security, to the Dir. of Central Intelligence. Feb. 16, 1968. 6 p. Att: Concurrence Sheet. 1 p. Security classification not given. SANITIZED copy. Released date not given. Memorandum. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. CONFIDENTIAL. Issue Date: Feb 16, 1968. Sanitized. Incomplete. 7 page(s).

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