*HR1955/S1959 is the modern day COINTELPRO / Operation CHAOS

By IgnoranceIsntBliss

During the 1950’s-1970’s the CIA conducted Operation Chaos in conjunction with the FBI’s COINTELPRO sinister sister-program. These programs were targeted specifically at the population of the United States. Later, when they were exposed to the public, the famous congressional Church Committee Hearings were conducted exposing the tyranny of the CIA and FBI.

Terms famous today such as the (original) FISA Act were established in its wake. It’s important to note that the CIA in particular is only supposed to conduct their tradecraft on overseas matters, but since many of the multi-faceted revolutionaries held socialist views that allowed them to later assert that the Soviet Union was behind the overall revolution. No evidence of that notion was ever collected. The revolution of the 60’s & 70’s was to broad and too diverse, and if anything the CIA was to blame for the LSD / psychedelic aspects of the broader revolution, as their Project MKULTRA activities involved distributing LSD and other psychotropic drugs on college campuses. It’s in all likelihood that the same Operation CHAOS agents were the ones behind those portions of the broader MKULTRA experiments, as the CIA essentially had operatives in every college and on university campus across the country as part of their domestic surveillance operations.

CIA Operation CHAOS Operational Guidelines:

Gather information on their immorality. Show them as scurrilous and depraved. Call attention to their habits and living conditions. Explore every possible embarrassment. Investigate personal conflicts or animosities between them. Send articles to newspapers showing their depravity. Use narcotics and free sex for entrapment. Have members arrested on marijuana charges. Exploit the hostilities between various persons. Use cartoons and photographs to ridicule them. Use disinformation to confuse and disrupt. Get records of their bank accounts. Obtain specimens of handwriting. Provoke target groups into rivalries that resulted in deaths. Perhaps most notable of COINTELPRO was the FBI’s anti-Black Panther operations. They literally did things like mailing fake death threats (“Hit’s”) between Black Panther political group leaders to criminal gang leaders in certain local cities. This one brief example of subversive tactics resulted in violence and deaths. Watch on Google Video: COINTELPRO: FBI’s War On Black America Another case was the premeditated murder of Fred Hampton. The FBI managed to get one of Fred’s ‘security guards’ as an informant. One night informant drugged Hampton and then the police and FBI raided his place and gunned him down right in his bed with pregnant girlfriend laying next to him. FRED HAMPTON: LEARN BY EXAMPLE Fred Hampton documentaries on Google VIdeo. The U.S. government -through the FBI & CIA- literally conducted institutionalized systematic repression and violence against the American populace to maintain the status quo and their power stranglehold. It was done under secrecy in those more shrouded days when there was only 3 primary news networks all infiltrated by the CIA. Today we have a seemingly more ‘open society’ with FIVE major megaconglomerations controlling roughly 90-95% of all news networks, TV channels, TV shows, newspapers, book publishers, radio stations, and so on across the country. Luckily we have the Internet which makes things much harder for our ruling establishment to get away with any potential slitherful ambitions, that is if We use it. In the days of COINTELPRO & CHAOS the “laws” of today (such as the PATRIOT Act, Military Commissions Act, and this new HR1955/S1959) were de facto, as in they were in fact yet not legislated nor their existence openly admitted to. Today those modern items aforementioned are right out in the open, meaning that in effect COINTELPRO & Operation CHAOS are back and are somehow embraced as “legal”. The irony is that Islamic terrorists who aren’t even agents of nor funded by another superpower state are being used to justify these measures, yet even the Cold War against the USSR and their blue-sky-funded KGB didn’t require such. Here 9/11 Truth websites are being displayed in powerpoint slides of “Terrorism & the Internet” congressional hearing about HR1955: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5MeGSlINMc http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/wiesenthal_center_presents_911_sites_alongside_radical_jihad_sites.htm Rep. Ron Paul’s statement on “Violent Radicalization & Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, HR 1955″: This legislation will set up a new government bureaucracy to monitor and further study the as-yet undemonstrated pressing problem of homegrown terrorism and radicalization. It will no doubt prove to be another bureaucracy that artificially inflates problems so as to guarantee its future existence and funding. But it may do so at great further expense to our civil liberties. What disturbs me most about this legislation is that it leaves the door wide open for the broadest definition of what constitutes “radicalization.” Could otherwise nonviolent anti-tax, anti-war, or anti-abortion groups fall under the watchful eye of this new government commission? Assurances otherwise in this legislation are unconvincing. In addition, this legislation will create a Department of Homeland Security-established university-based body to further study radicalization and to “contribute to the establishment of training, written materials, information, analytical assistance and professional resources to aid in combating violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism.” I wonder whether this is really a legitimate role for institutes of higher learning in a free society. Legislation such as this demands heavy-handed governmental action against American citizens where no crime has been committed. It is yet another attack on our Constitutionally protected civil liberties. Rep. Dennis Kucinich on HR1955: “If you understand what his bill does, it really sets the stage for further criminalization of protest”. The FACT that the 9/11 attacks could have been stopped with the “tools” that “they” had should make it obvious that even ‘simply’ the PATRIOT Act is an absurd abomination to our so-called “Leader of the Free World” republic. The notion that more domestic surveillance to cloud up the intel waters, thus making it harder to narrow down the supposed terrorism related activity is de facto proof that this has much less to do with “Al Qaeda” and more about the US population just like in the old days. “It isn’t about getting Osama”: http://www.youtube.com/user/IgnoranceIsntBliss The fact that GWB and the rest of the Neocon talking heads admit that the “War on Terror” isn’t even about “Osama”, in conjunction with the aforementioned domestic policies clearly demonstrate that the entire ordeal is nothing much besides the conquest of both global and domestic domination by the ruling power elite. S 1959 “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007” must be stopped at all costs. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1955 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1959 There’s still time to resist HR1955/S1959, however, but I suggest you act. Call your local Senators and civilly tell them what you think: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm It may seem futile to even bother, but when we don’t act nor protest things it in effect gives them the green light for all of the various underhanded things that happen in DC. Tell them that you’re not ignorant, apathetic nor as stupid as they presume. Empower yourself by respectfully telling The Man where to stick it. See also Covert operation ECHELON NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Project MERRIMAC Project MINARET Project RESISTANCE Project SHAMROCK COINTELPRO CHAOS, MERRIMAC, and RESISTANCE | PDF Development of Surveillance Technology & Risk of Abuse of Economic Information | PDF Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS ECHELON: America’s Secret Global Surveillance Network Operation Chaos: The CIA’s War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities: United States Senate – CIA Intelligence Collection about Americans: CHAOS and the Office of Security Category:COINTELPRO targets Police Brutality Agent provocateur Franklin, H. Bruce, targeted by COINTELPRO Brown, H. Rap, targeted by COINTELPRO Hampton, Fred, targeted by COINTELPRO Viola Liuzzo, murdered by a shot from a car used by four Ku Klux Klansmen, one of whom was a COINTELPRO informant NSA call database Operation Mockingbird Gary Rowe, COINTELPRO informant accused (and acquitted) of involvement in the murder of civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo Starsky, Morris , early target of COINTELPRO Red squad – Police intelligence/anti-dissident units, later operated under COINTELPRO THERMCON Weather Underground The COINTELPRO Papers Security culture Documentary “Me and My Shadow”: A History of the FBI’s Covert Operations and COINTELPRO – Part 1. 34:21 minute Real Audio. Produced by Adi Gevins, Pacifica Radio. 1976. Rebroadcast by Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 5, 2002. Retrieved May 12, 2005. “Me and My Shadow”: A History of the FBI’s Covert Operations and COINTELPRO – Part 2. 13:43 minute Real Audio. Produced by Adi Gevins, Pacifica Radio. 1976. Rebroadcast by Democracy Now! Thursday, June 6, 2002. Retrieved May 12, 2005. Websites COINTELPRO videos on African American History Channel COINTELPRO now Paul Wolf’s COINTELPRO website, a detailed reference site. Retrieved April 19, 2005. COINTELPRO STILL LIVES by Sista Shiriki Unganisha COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story – presented to U.N. World Conference Against Racism 2001 by the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus Nation of Islam website’s section on COINTELPRO, includes an assortment of documents, links and references. The Judi Bari case, COINTELPRO in the 1990s. Retrieved < A>April>, 2005. COINTELPRO: the Sabotage of Legitimate Dissent, What Really Happened, June 5, 1998. Fake Black Panther Party coloring book distributed by the FBI COINTELPRO-WHITE HATE Operation Against the Ku Klux Klan CHAOS, MERRIMAC, and RESISTANCE | PDF Development of Surveillance Technology & Risk of Abuse of Economic Information | PDF Domestic Surveillance: The History of Operation CHAOS ECHELON: America’s Secret Global Surveillance Network Operation Chaos: The CIA’s War Against the Sixties Counter-Culture Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelligence Activities: United States Senate – CIA Intelligence Collection about Americans: CHAOS and the Office of Security Articles Cynthia McKinney regarding COINTELPRO on CounterPunch [2] [edit] U.S. Government reports Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. United States Senate, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, April 26 (legislative day, April 14), 1976. [AKA “Church Committee Report”]. Archived on COINTELPRO sources website. Transcription and html by Paul Wolf. Retrieved April 19, 2005. Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, Book II I. Introduction and Summary II. The Growth of Domestic Intelligence: 1936 to 1976 III. Findings (A) Violating and Ignoring the Law (B) Overbreadth of Domestic Intelligence Activity (C) Excessive Use of Intrusive Techniques (D) Using Covert Action to Disrupt and Discredit Domestic Groups (E) Political Abuse of Intelligence Information (F) Inadequate Controls on Dissemination and Retention (G) Deficiencies in Control and Accountability IV. Conclusions and Recommendations Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports, Book III COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Covert Action Programs Against American Citizens Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Case Study The FBI’s Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party The Use of Informants in FBI Intelligence Investigations Warrantless FBI Electronic Surveillance Warrantless Surreptitious Entries: FBI “Black Bag” Break-ins And Microphone Installations The Development of FBI Domestic Intelligence Investigations Domestic CIA and FBI Mail Opening CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS Program And The Office of Security National Security Agency Surveillance Affecting Americans Improper Surveillance of Private Citizens By The Military The Internal Revenue Service: An Intelligence Resource and Collector National Security, Civil Liberties, And The Collection of Intelligence: A Report On The Huston Plan .. 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