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20020610
"FBI's
Domestic Political Machinations - Uncensored 1950's FOIA Documents Online."
from the Conservative-Trust-of-Big.GOV dept.
-By Hermit !-| -Posted
1st @ LISNews.com
A SFGate.com
Special Report posted F.B.I.
documents from the 1950's and 1960's released after lengthy
F.O.I.A. lawsuits.
Starting
as a FOIA request by journalism student Seth Rosenfeld in 1981 concerning
""any and all" records on more than 100 people, events and groups involved
in controversies at UC [University of California] over academic freedom,
civil rights and national policy," the 17 year legal battle culminated
in a paper boon for historians.
Still, "the
FBI has yet to finish turning over the last of the records, said James
Wheaton, the Oakland lawyer now handling the case," writes Rosenfeld, now
a SFGate reporter, who points out
Ashcroft's new ~withhold for any reason~ FOIA policy.
Included
for comparison are some of the initially released censored
documents and the eventually released uncensored
documents ordered by the courts.
While "the
FBI claimed it had censored the records to protect law enforcement operations,
personal privacy and national security," a comparison of the censored/uncensored
documents shows how the court concluded the F.B.I.'s activities ""came
to focus on political rather than law enforcement aims.""
Apparently
F.B.I. director Hoover's concern ignited after learning of "an optional
essay
question on the University of California's 1959 English aptitude test
... that asked, "What are the dangers to a democracy of a national police
organization like the FBI which operates secretly and is unresponsive to
public criticism.""
FOIA - "Freedom of Information Act."
F.B.I. - "Federal Bureau of Investigation."
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Google searches:
<FOIA>, <F.B.I.>
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SFGate.com
- The San Francisco Chronicle's lead story Sunday,
20020609
"The
Campus Files. Reagan, Hoover and the UC [University
of California] Red Scare: Secret FBI files show
how the bureau's covert campaign to disrupt the Free Speech Movement and
topple UC President Clark Kerr Helped launch the political career of an
actor named Ronald Reagan." ... "A chronicle Special Report."
http://sfgate.com/campus/
-By Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"Secret
FBI files reveal covert activities at UC [University of California] Bureau's
campus operations involved Reagan, CIA." ... "According
to the documents, Hoover became outraged over an essay question on UC's
1959 English aptitude test for high school applicants that asked: "What
are the dangers to a democracy of a national police organization, like
the FBI, which operates secretly and is unresponsive to public criticism?""
"In response,
Hoover ordered his aides to launch a covert public relations campaign to
embarrass the university and pressure it to retract what he called a "viciously
misleading" question." -By Seth Rosenfeld
-SFGate.com
"Reagan,
Hoover and the UC [University of California] Red Scare."
... "... as the Cold War waned, the FBI departed from its mission of protecting
national security and engaged in sprawling covert intelligence operations
that involved thousands of UC students and faculty participating in legitimate
debate about public policy."
"For years
the FBI has denied engaging in such activities at the university. But a
17-year legal challenge brought by a Chronicle reporter under the Freedom
of Information Act forced the FBI to release more than 200,000 pages of
confidential records covering the 1940s to the 1970s."
...
"But in
ordering the release of the FBI's files in 1995, a federal appeals court
concluded that some of the bureau's activities extended far beyond its
law enforcement mandate and "came to focus on political rather than law
enforcement aims."" -By Seth Rosenfeld
-SFGate.com
"The
FBI's secret UC [University of California] files."
... "On Feb. 17, 1951, the [F.B.I.] director [J. Edgar Hoover] initiated
a secret nationwide program intended to remove politically suspect employees
from their jobs with state and local agencies, public utilities and schools."
... "Code-named the Responsibilities Program, it never was authorized by
Congress or the White House. And according to Athan Theoharis, a Marquette
University history professor and former U.S. Senate consultant who has
studied the little-known operation, the FBI had no jurisdiction for it."
-By Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"Trouble
on campus." 1964. ... "The confrontation had been
building since students returned to UC Berkeley that fall and learned that
school officials had begun enforcing a ban on all political activity on
campus, even collecting quarters for causes and handing out leaflets."
... "... Hoover soon went beyond gathering intelligence and began covertly
manipulating public opinion about the campus events." ... "At his direction,
the San Francisco FBI office slipped information about some protesters'
past political activities and arrests at civil rights demonstrations to
Ed Montgomery of the San Francisco Examiner, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter
who had developed an unusually close relationship with the bureau."
-By Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"The
governor's race." ... "Hoover wanted to help Reagan,
but was concerned that the FBI's role might be exposed. So in his customary
blue ink, the director outlined a plan that would not leave a paper trail
leading back to the bureau."
.
"According
to the plan, Lynum [FBI's San Francisco head] would warn Reagan about any
future protests at Berkeley or at his press conferences. But officially,
he would tell Reagan the FBI had "no pertinent information" about Kerr
or the regents."
.
"Instead,
senior FBI official Charles Brennan, who "has the qualifications and ability
to handle this sensitive matter," would confidentially brief Reagan."
...
"The Reagan
administration "will attack these groups ["disruptive elements"]" through
several methods, Ellingwood said. These included "hounding the groups as
much as possible by bringing any form of violation available against them."
For example, he said, "If any of these groups has a bookstore on campus
they will bring building code violations against them.""
""Reagan
officials also may refer "tax violations (of the dissenters) both to the
Internal Revenue Service of the State of California and to the Federal
Internal Revenue Service.""
"Finally,
the administration would mount a "psychological
warfare campaign," said Ellingwood, adding that he would "confer with
Department of Defense officials today to get ideas from those individuals
as to how to conduct campaigns of this nature."" -By
Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"The
legacy of the FBI's UC activities."
-By Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"The
17-year legal battle to get the campus files." ...
"The FBI spent more than 15 years and $1 million trying to suppress records
revealing its unlawful covert activities at the University of California
and its campaign to fire then-UC President Clark Kerr."
"In 1981,
Chronicle reporter Seth Rosenfeld, then a journalism student at UC Berkeley,
sent the FBI a Freedom of Information Act request for "any and all" records
on more than 100 people, events and groups involved in controversies at
UC over academic freedom, civil rights and national policy."
...
"Totaling
more than 200,000 pages, those papers constitute one of the single largest
releases of FBI records under the FOIA. In court, the bureau estimated
it cost more than $900,000 to process the request."
-By Seth
Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"Where
are they now? Other key players."
-By Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
"A
note on sources." -By
Seth Rosenfeld -SFGate.com
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Google searches:
<FOIA> <"Freedom
of Information Act">
<F.B.I.>
<"Federal
Bureau of Investigation">
<FBI
"Responsibilities Program">
<Hoover
FBI "Security Index">
<COINTELPRO>
<"Counterintelligence
Program">
<HUAC>
<"House
Committee on Un-American Activities">
<"Free
Speech Movement">
<"Filthy
Speech Movement">
<"Vietnam
Day Committee">
<Executive
Order 10450>
<"Students
for a Democratic Society">
<"People's
Park">
<Final
Report, Intelligence Activities and the Rights of the Americans, 1976,
by the U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with
Respect to Intelligence Activities.>
aka the:
<"Church
committee report">
Encyclopedia.com article:
<"John Birch
Society">
Links
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SFGate.com
Special Report
F.B.I.
documents from the 1950's and 1960's
lengthy
F.O.I.A. lawsuits
SFGate
censored
uncensored
essay
question
Comment?
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