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FBI Sabotaged the Left; Assassination Plot Records Won’t be Released
New Book Showcases FBI Efforts to Sabotage the US Left. The FBI saw the development of Maoist political groups during the late 1960s and early 1970s as extremely threatening, and according to Heavy Radicals authors, utilized numerous tactics to undermine their effectiveness, including infiltration, disruption and the smearing of leaders and members as traitors, liars and untrustworthy partners.
Assassination Plot Records Won’t Be Released. Details of a plot to kill Occupy Houston leaders won’t be released after a federal court upheld the FBI’s claim that the documents are legally exempted from the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI argued information was withheld, including 12 of 17 relevant pages, to protect the identity of confidential sources who were “members of organized violent groups,” according to Courthouse News Service.
