Thursday, June 4, 2020

Who Killed Malcolm X new netflix Doc and the Imperial Origins of the FBI

Turkish review and interview with the documentary author - youtube

So this documentary relies on Dr. Manning Marable's tome - that I have not read -

So the FBI had NINE informants at the location of the assassination of Malcolm X and the FBI knew who was the main killer - with the shot gun - but held this information back from the NYPD investigation.

So the question is raised if the shotgun shooter was also an FBI informant - even though he also went to prison for other crimes.

What is not delved into is the imperial origins of the FBI as Professor of History - at UW-Madison - an exposer of CIA drug dealing on a massive scale - has exposed the Philippine origins of the FBI - as a successful imperial control force then imported for domestic use -

Professor Alfred McCoy on FBI origins from US Imperial security apparatus

So what the new doc on the assassination of Malcolm X proves is that the FBI - the closeted Hoover fascist - like Roy Cohn - is obsessed with the threat of the rise of black liberation movements - along with native indian liberation movements, etc.
Professor McCoy's book, Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State, won the 2011 George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies.
"the researcher analysis branch (of OSS) recruited a staff of nearly 2000 academics many of them very famous indeed"
 https://theintercept.com/2020/06/02/history-united-states-government-infiltration-protests/

 Harry, George, Tom, and Joe had been state troopers assigned to infiltrate the group and produce a pretext for a raid. All of the charges against the puppeteers were eventually dropped, and the saga would eventually cost the city millions in lawsuit settlements (with much of the legal work led by radical attorney Larry Krasner, who is now Philadelphia district attorney).
  in May 1970, an informant working for both the Tuscaloosa police and the FBI burned down a building at the University of Alabama during protests over the recent Kent State University shootings. The police then declared that demonstrators were engaging in an unlawful assembly and arrested 150 of them.
 He encouraged acolytes to kidnap a congressman and offered training in Molotov cocktails. Two students at Hobart College acted on his suggestions and firebombed the campus ROTC building. Eventually it came out that his full name was Tommy Tongyai, and he had worked both for local police and the FBI.
 A John Birch Society member turned FBI informant helped assemble time bombs and placed them on an Army truck. An FBI informant in the radical political organization Weather Underground took part in the bombing of a Cincinnati public school. A prominent member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War — and FBI informant — pushed for “shooting and bombing,” and his advocacy apparently did indeed lead to a bombing and a bomb threat. An FBI informant in Seattle drove a young black man named Larry Ward to a real estate office that engaged in housing discrimination and encouraged him to place a bomb there; the police were waiting and killed Ward. Thirteen Black Panthers were accused of a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty after receiving 60 sticks of dynamite from an FBI informant. After 28 people broke into a federal building to destroy draft files in 1971, an FBI informant bragged, “I taught them everything they knew.” All 28 were acquitted when his role was revealed.
 The Camden 28 were a group of Catholic left anti-Vietnam War activists who in 1971 planned and executed a raid on a Camden, New Jersey draft board. ..

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