Abstract
Muslims – Enemies of the State: The New Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO)
Highlights
On June 9th, 2002, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday edition published a special report, “Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare,” which exposed the role played by the FBI in undermining the leadership of the University of California Administration and led to the eventual resignation of the UC President Clark Kerr—a fact known to many on campus but vindicated by official documents
Some officers engaged in the current war on terror referenced the 1960s operations in e-mails that the group Anonymous hacked into and published on a number of websites including Truthout.com with one exchange making explicit mention of the operations: “I keep telling you, you and I are going to laugh and raise a beer one day, when everything Intel (NYPD's Intelligence Division) has been involved in during the last 10 years comes out - it always eventually comes out. They are going to make Hoover, COINTEL, Red Squads, etc look like rank armatures [sic] compared to some of the damn right felonious activity, and violations of US citizen's rights they have been engaged in.”[8]. In order to comprehend the extent of the current operations, we must first examine the records of the COINTELPRO operations, which will allow us to recognize the main tools used against targeted groups at the time and to extrapolate lessons through the construction of a sound comparison with the current operations directed at Muslims and Arabs in the US and abroad
In the previous COINTELPRO programs, the most frequently used intelligence collection technique was through the deployment of informants accounting for 83% frequency followed by 74% of a confidential police source being the source for information.[30]
Summary
ISLAMOPHOBIA STUDIES JOURNAL VOLUME 1, NO. 1, SPRING 2012, PP. 163-206. Published by: Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley. In the Islamophobia Studies Journal are those of the respective authors and contributors. They are not the expression of the editorial or advisory board and staff. Either expressed or implied, is made of the accuracy of the material in this journal and ISJ cannot accept any legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. The reader must make his or her own evaluation of the accuracy and appropriateness of those materials. Muslims – Enemies of the State: The New CounterIntelligence Program (COINTELPRO)
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