THE FBI: DOWN COMMIES

A couple of weeks ago Lou 6-X, a Black Moslem ministe noticed something fishy abor premises opposite his mosqu in Baltimore, Maryland.

On closer investigation he discovered one of the windor an apartment had its gla covered by brown paper W11 small holes cut in it.

Behind this crude camouflal he could see hands moving and some large mysterious apparatu With some other Moslems he knocked on the apartment doo but got no answer.

When they forced the dor they were confronted by tw white men with guns drawn. Moslems fled and returne minutes later accompanied. by posse of police. The arrests wel carried out in traditional US cc fashion-with few tear-gi bombs and a charge using sawi off shotguns.

But on 'pacifying' the two men, the police found to the horror they were FBI agents.

As the crowd built up outsia a mock arrest was staged and tł two men were whisked awa reporter that Harry Smith (40 Police told "Baltimore Sun been Tapessended. The didn and "James (35)' ha apprenenaca. been ace heard and haven The local police commissione Donald Pomerleau, and the hea of the Baltimore FBI burea Thomas Farrow, have bo1 refused to comment. tent of the FBI network and fi The incident reveals the power it wields conductir its investigations.

The supreme and lawle: authority of the FBI reflection of the immense powi wielded by the FBI's chief, Edgar Hoover.

Hoover, now 77, has run this secret police outfit for 47 years during which he's served eight presidents and bullied 16 attorney-generals.

Four months ago a decisic was taken at the highest leve f the Nixon administration dump Hoover before the electio year. Two Avantican doabe American Journalists Rowland Robe ovak, described what happen 'The scenario orked out called for a dramatic summ meeting at the White Hou! between president and direc hich Mr Nixon would prai Hoover and then ask for his resignation. The meeting LOC place, but the The president neve spoke nis lines, never aske Hoover to quit.

'The bizarre situation unde lines one of the major argumen for Hoover leaving. After years running the FBI, Hoover independent political power SO formidable that even the President shrinks from askir him to quit and will not eve consider removing him in election he's too much of a hardiner f wants to shift Hoover becaus it should be stressed that, the le contrary, the Prasident was ac ing in consultation with extreme anti-Communist frien in the Goldwater faction le Republican Party. They want to reDlace Hoover with someor le more efficient!)

chalk an he go years 1994 1 Chalk his 50 years' service nd to officiate at the opening the new £40m FBI headquarte With the spate of secret stat documents now surfacing, it wi only matter time befor some of the inside Hoover stor emerged. 'Books last week Review of former special agent, Robe: Wall, revealed a number of inc dents. which clearly demonstrat the vicious reactionary nature of this organization.

Wall, 33-year-old forme naval officer, concluded after h attachment to the FBI: 'M experience has shown th. the FBI, in its pursuit of black the anti-war movement, an partial but disinterested finder college activists, was nol an In fact, rather a relentles Nixon guardian of orthodoxy, a police force which sought to cause harm to movements that boldly questioned the policies of the government.

'It engaged in these activities not simply because of the political prejudices of the director and his staff but, to a large extent, to justify its own existence. Each attack on ourspoken critics of American institutions was intended to show the FBI as the indespensable protector of the public.' Wall's article details how the FBI arranged frame-ups, kept surveillance on militants and foreign embassies and harassed nembers of the public who associated themselves with antiadministration movements. 'There are hardly any limits on the bureau's activities in compiling political information,' Wall says.

Referring to the FBI's infiltration and intimidation of the so-called 'new left', Wall says: 'But in its intelligence and counterintelligence work on the new left it was engaging in activity that clearly was political. Moreover, in trying to suppress and Eldridge Cleaver discourage a broad-based national political movement, it acted as a national police force.' Hoover's other speciality is the Black Power groups. He publicly testified that the Panthers were the 'greatest single threat to the security of America. And as Wall comments: Having itself created the threat, the bureau set out to neutralize it.' 'Neutralize' is scarcely the word for it.

Wall goes on to admit: 'In the ase of Stokely Carmichael the FBI was particularly determined and vicious' He was watched 24 hours a day. The FBI even put the boot into Martin Luther King. Hoover once said: 'He was the last man in the world who should ever have received the Nobel Prize' And after his assassination it was the FBI who leaked stories about King's taste for women and drinking. Asked how he justified this slanderous attack, an FBI spokesman said: "The man was mixing with and taking money from the Reds.' The FBI showed the extent to which it can mobilize reactionary opinion during the Angela shereer.

Stokely Carmichael Davis case. A day after the San Rafael court shoot-out in which Jonathan Jackson, a judge and two convicts were killed, the FBI placed Miss Davis on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted' list. She was described as 'armed and dangerous.' This hysteria was whipped up in spite of the fact that she had no previous criminal record.

From the television series of the same name and countless 'B' movies, the FBI is presented as the great crusade against racketeers. But since Hoover began his marathon term of office, organized crime has increased ten-fold in the US. Clearly, therefore, Hoover's service to the ruling class is not gang-busting.

He is a witch-hunter general. He has a basic staff of 18,500, but there are tens of thousands of pimps and stooges on the payroll. His annual budget is £115m.

The gigantic filing system and records office contain the fingerprints of 100 million half of the population ple only a quarter of these dossiers Angela Davis relate to crime; the rest be termed 'political'.

Hoover's main task at the moment is to build up his intelligence network abroad—in spite of the fact that in most countries, including Britain, it is illegal for othér state's police forces to operate. He has just been given permission to increase his outputs abroad to 21, a move that has seriously upset his rivals in the CIA.

These expansions in the work of the FBI are a direct reflection of the growing militancy and unrest among workers and students and professional classes. Hoover is getting tooled up for 1950s when those as Robert Wall a return to the 1940s and early describes, who were called Communists, pinkos, reds, commie symps, fellow travellers and sundry other names were being "discovered" and routed from all levels of American society'.

Hoover, on the other hand, sees the new global FBI as 'a servant of the American people, working round the clock to protect their ri ghts, lives and

Bachelor judge, Mr Justice Stirling (64), was hearing about an unfortunate man who alleged his love life had ruined after a surgeon cut off his testicle without telling The judge asked: 'What is so special about a testicle?' A report from Justice, the British section of the Interna Commission of Jurists, said that some judges were not The "Sunday Mercury', described as 'the Midlands' day newspaper', had a great front page recently.

The headlined story said: 'When a union convenor gave up his job with a Midland company, he was not surprised to receive a farewell present from the workers. What he did not expect was a gold watch from the managing director-with a compliThe article went on to describe the touching story of Mr Stanley Nugent's farewell from the Midac Dust Control company in Birmingham. The 'Mercury' reporter says: 'Since Mr Nugent took on the task of convenor of the firm's 120 workers the men have only lost six days' work through industrial disAll is explained, however, when the story says: 'Last night Mr Nugent, a Communist Party member who was a shop steward at 16, admitted: "I was shaken to the core by the presentation. I had not expected anything like that"' Why not?

Any doubts about racialism in the police force? According to the Oxford ford dic Accorale tionary, the word 'patent' means 'conferring an exclusive right or privilege', and the 17th century was certainly one in which the TV ciently acquainted with modern trends. ment for being tough.' putes in 18 years.' That's some record. claim on the Burmese for less than £1,000; which is followed by the additional demand of an apology from the governor of February case been him.

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