Posted on 11/18/2016 1:40:19 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
The JFK era government counter-intelligence was dominated by J Edgar Hoover and not by JFK, on whom JEH had a dossier.
I attended KKK, White Citizen Council, Communist Party and fellow traveler Meetings in 61-63 (as a student of Sociology and as innoculation against my own proclivity to paranoia) and then associated with FALN and PSP a few years later.
Clearly the bureaucracy and bureaucratic red tape ran the government surveillance and disruption activities. There was none of the precision seen in the Hollywood version. The true believers would turn on other true believers in self-destructive behavior as often as they would turn on the paid informants and undercover agents.
The most under-reported aspect of the fringe groups is how much they are all talk and no action.
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