Posted on 06/10/2002 6:16:30 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Under the guise of protecting national security, the FBI conducted wide-ranging and unlawful intelligence operations concerning the University of California that at different points involved the head of the CIA and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, The Chronicle has learned.
According to thousands of pages of FBI records obtained by The Chronicle after a 17-year legal fight, the FBI unlawfully schemed with the head of the CIA to harass students, faculty and members of the Board of Regents, and mounted a concerted campaign to destroy the career of UC President Clark Kerr, which included sending the White House derogatory allegations about him that the bureau knew were false.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
The article, and its SF Chronicle original, didn't publish how the FBI's Contelpro project killed people in 1968. A delegation of Bay Area Congressmen led by Don Edwards, Dem-San Jose (a former FBI agent), threatened an investigation over that so Hoover closed down the whole thing.
Anyone who wants to write that story can talk to former congressman Pete McCloskey (Rep-Woodside) about it.
3 posted on 6/10/02 7:23 AM Pacific by Thud
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