You may recall the FBI's "COINTELPRO" project -- which was supposedly ended around 1974 yet which continues today under different terms and rhetoric. I've acquired some very fragmentary texts from this era and among these texts are _domestic_terrorism_ probes into the Scientology organization. If I'm not mistaken, Webster was running the FBI at that time, wasn't he? I'll have to check. Any way...

The texts are heavily redacted but FOIA requests are apparently allowed on this material since that's apparently where this stuff -- if it's authentic -- came from. I know that the Scientology crime syndicate has used the FOIA extensively when they were working to corrupt the IRS and I see in FindLaw.COM that the crooks have used the FOIA in other ways.

I've got to assume that they already have these materials as well.

Curious how they're too embarrassed to ever mention any of it in a.r.s, isn't it?

If anybody else has documents like this, e-mail me, please, and let's put our resources together and see if we can authenticate some of this so it can be posted.

Incidentally, for people outside of the United States who are not up on COINTELPRO, it was basically a criminal operation run by the FBI to organize fighting domestic terrorism groups, many of which financed their operations with bank robbery and other illegal activities. The FBI charter was broad enough to allow COINTELPRO to widen the way it delt with non-violent, legal, yet politically unsavory groups operating within the United States -- and often without -- to the point that the FBI's COINTELPRO operatives became subversive terrorists in their own right operating under color of law.

Public opposition to the FBI and its tactics came to a head some time in the early 1970's when the FBI's COINTELPRO operatives started being handed prison terms and when John Ryan -- the "Jack Ryan" named in many of Tom Clancey's novels -- refused a series of orders by his superiors to committ crimes and was publically "fired."

COINTELPRO morphed into a multi-agency terrorism task force which set the stage for military-style assault shock troops mirrored in the BATF and other nomex-clad assault troops putatively working as law enforcement in the United States today. At the height of COINTELPRO -- the public version -- the FBI was opening the paper mail of perhaps 100,000 individuals, conducting illegal wiretaps on half as many telephones, and infiltrating race-oriented groups like the Black Panthers and criminal businesses like Scientology and the Italian Mafia.

The contemporary COINTELPRO-derived FBI agency is the very same one which implemented Carnivore and which gets first pick of the leads that technology yields. Those offices of the FBI continue to be a subversive criminal group patterned after COINTELPRO however only the names, terminology, and the rhetoric has changed in order to be publically acceptable to the public. And, as was the case in the 1970's, these offices had little to do with the majority honest, law-abiding, civil FBI offices which conducted themselves correctly.

Also incidentally, I don't believe there was ever any fall out on the CIA for any of this because the CIA's hands were clean. Even at the height of the "Cold War," there were at most 12,000 individuals world-wide working for the CIA and that includes field officers and doubled agents.

I don't believe that the FBI's employee counts have ever been released to the public but I've got to believe that they number in the hundreds of thousands.

But all of that its publically availble on the Internet. If I can get this paper stuff authenticated, I'll start posting it.

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