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COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and at times illegal,[1] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.[2] COINTELPRO tactics have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination.[3][4][5] The FBI's stated motivation was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."[6]

FBI records show that 85% of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed "subversive",[7] including communist and socialist organizations; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations; black nationalist groups; the American Indian Movement; a broad range of organizations labeled "New Left", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; the National Lawyers Guild; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement; and additional notable Americans—even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration.[8] The remaining 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert "white hate groups", including the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party.[9]

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued directives governing COINTELPRO, ordering FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders.[10][11] Under Hoover, the agent in charge of COINTELPRO was William C. Sullivan.[12] Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, although himself the target of FBI surveillance, personally authorized some of these programs.[13]
Contents

1 History
1.1 Program exposed
2 Intended effects
3 Range of targets
4 Methods
5 Illegal surveillance
6 Post-COINTELPRO operations
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
9.1 Books
9.2 Articles
9.3 U.S. government reports
10 External links
10.1 Documentary
10.2 Websites
10.3 Articles
10.4 U.S. government reports

History

The FBI engaged in political repression almost from the time of the agency's inception in 1908, and antecedents to COINTELPRO operated during the FDR and Truman administrations. Centralized operations under COINTELPRO officially began in August 1956 with a program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections" inside the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA). Tactics included anonymous phone calls, IRS audits, and the creation of documents that would divide American communists internally.[14] An October 1956 memo from Hoover reclassified the FBI's ongoing surveillance of black leaders, including it within COINTELPRO, with the justification that the movement was infiltrated by communists.[15] When the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded in 1957, the FBI began to monitor and target the group almost immediately, focusing particularly on Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison, and Martin Luther King, Jr.[16]

After the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, King was singled out as a major target for COINTELPRO. Under pressure from Hoover to focus not simply on communist infiltration of the civil rights movement, but on King specifically, Sullivan wrote: "In the light of King's powerful demagogic speech. . . . We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro, and national security."[17] Soon after, the FBI was systematically bugging King's home and his hotel rooms.[18]

Amidst the urban unrest of July–August 1967, the FBI began "COINTELPRO–BLACK HATE", which focused on King and the SCLC as well as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its leader, Stokely Carmichael. BLACK HATE established the Ghetto Informant Program and instructed 23 FBI offices to "disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist hate type organizations".[19] This program coincided with a broader federal effort to prepare military responses for urban riots, and began increased collaboration between the FBI, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and the Department of Defense.[20] A particular target was the Poor People's Campaign, a national effort organized by King and the SCLC to occupy Washington, D.C. The FBI monitored and disrupted the campaign on a national level, while using targeted smear tactics locally to undermine support for the march.[21]

COINTELPRO–NEW LEFT was created in April 1968, in the wake of King's assassination in Memphis and mass student protests at Columbia University.[22]

The program ultimately encompassed disruption of the Socialist Workers Party (1961), the Ku Klux Klan (1964), the Nation of Islam, the Black Panther Party (1967), and the entire New Left social/political movement, which included antiwar, community, and religious groups (1968). A later investigation by the Senate's Church Committee (see below) stated that "COINTELPRO began in 1956, in part because of frustration with Supreme Court rulings limiting the Government's power to proceed overtly against dissident groups..."[23] Official congressional committees and several court cases[24] have concluded that COINTELPRO operations against communist and socialist groups exceeded statutory limits on FBI activity and violated constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and association.[1]
Program exposed

The program was successfully kept secret until 1971, when the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized an FBI field office in Media, Pennsylvania, took several dossiers, and exposed the program by passing this information to news agencies. Many news organizations initially refused to publish the information. Within the year, Director Hoover declared that the centralized COINTELPRO was over, and that all future counterintelligence operations would be handled on a case-by-case basis.[25][26]

Further documents were revealed in the course of separate lawsuits filed against the FBI by NBC correspondent Carl Stern, the Socialist Workers Party, and a number of other groups. A major investigation was launched in 1976 by the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities of the United States Senate, commonly referred to as the "Church Committee" for its chairman, Senator Frank Church of Idaho. However, millions of pages of documents remain unreleased, and many released documents have been partly, or entirely, redacted.

Since the conclusion of centralized COINTELPRO operations in 1971, FBI counterintelligence operations have been handled on a "case-by-case basis"; however allegations of improper political repression continue.[27][28]

In the Final Report of the Select Committee, COINTELPRO was castigated in no uncertain terms:

The Committee finds that the domestic activities of the intelligence community at times violated specific statutory prohibitions and infringed the constitutional rights of American citizens. The legal questions involved in intelligence programs were often not considered. On other occasions, they were intentionally disregarded in the belief that because the programs served the "national security" the law did not apply. While intelligence officers on occasion failed to disclose to their superiors programs which were illegal or of questionable legality, the Committee finds that the most serious breaches of duty were those of senior officials, who were responsible for controlling intelligence activities and generally failed to assure compliance with the law.[1]

Many of the techniques used would be intolerable in a democratic society even if all of the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that...the Bureau conducted a sophisticated vigilante operation aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights of speech and association, on the theory that preventing the growth of dangerous groups and the propagation of dangerous ideas would protect the national security and deter violence.[23]

The Church Committee documented a history of use of the agency for purposes of political repression as far back as World War I, through the 1920s, when agents were charged with rounding up "anarchists and revolutionaries" for deportation, and then building from 1936 through 1976.
Intended effects

The intended effect of the FBI's COINTELPRO was to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, or otherwise neutralize" groups that the FBI believed were "subversive"[29] by instructing FBI field operatives to[30]:

create a negative public image for target groups (e.g. by surveiling activists, and then releasing negative personal information to the public)
break down internal organization
create dissension between groups
restrict access to public resources
restrict the ability to organize protests
restrict the ability of individuals to participate in group activities

Range of targets

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, MIT professor of linguistics and political activist Noam Chomsky spoke about the purpose and the targets of COINTELPRO saying, "COINTELPRO was a program of subversion carried out not by a couple of petty crooks but by the national political police, the FBI, under four administrations... by the time it got through, I won't run through the whole story, it was aimed at the entire new left, at the women's movement, at the whole black movement, it was extremely broad. Its actions went as far as political assassination."[31][dubious – discuss]

According to the Church Committee:

While the declared purposes of these programs were to protect the "national security" or prevent violence, Bureau witnesses[who?] admit that many of the targets were nonviolent and most had no connections with a foreign power. Indeed, nonviolent organizations and individuals were targeted because the Bureau believed they represented a "potential" for violence -- and nonviolent citizens who were against the war in Vietnam were targeted because they gave "aid and comfort" to violent demonstrators by lending respectability to their cause.

The imprecision of the targeting is demonstrated by the inability of the Bureau to define the subjects of the programs. The Black Nationalist program, according to its supervisor, included "a great number of organizations that you might not today characterize as black nationalist but which were in fact primarily black." Thus, the nonviolent Southern Christian Leadership Conference was labeled as a Black Nationalist-"Hate Group."

Furthermore, the actual targets were chosen from a far broader group than the titles of the programs would imply. The CPUSA program targeted not only Communist Party members but also sponsors of the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee and civil rights leaders allegedly under Communist influence or deemed to be not sufficiently "anti-Communist". The Socialist Workers Party program included non-SWP sponsors of anti-war demonstrations which were cosponsored by the SWP or the Young Socialist Alliance, its youth group. The Black Nationalist program targeted a range of organizations from the Panthers to SNCC to the peaceful Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and included every Black Student Union and many other black student groups. New Left targets ranged from the SDS to the InterUniversity Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy, from Antioch College ("vanguard of the New Left") to the New Mexico Free University and other "alternate" schools, and from underground newspapers to students' protesting university censorship of a student publication by carrying signs with four-letter words on them.

Examples of surveillance, spanning all presidents from FDR to Nixon, both legal and illegal, contained in the Church Committee report:[32]

President Roosevelt asked the FBI to put in its files the names of citizens sending telegrams to the White House opposing his "national defense" policy and supporting Col. Charles Lindbergh.
President Truman received inside information on a former Roosevelt aide's efforts to influence his appointments, labor union negotiating plans, and the publishing plans of journalists.
President Eisenhower received reports on purely political and social contacts with foreign officials by Bernard Baruch, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas.
The Kennedy administration had the FBI wiretap a congressional staff member, three executive officials, a lobbyist, and a Washington law firm. US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received the fruits of an FBI wire tap on Martin Luther King, Jr. and an electronic listening device targeting a congressman, both of which yielded information of a political nature.
President Johnson asked the FBI to conduct "name checks" of his critics and members of the staff of his 1964 opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater. He also requested purely political intelligence on his critics in the Senate, and received extensive intelligence reports on political activity at the 1964 Democratic Convention from FBI electronic surveillance.
President Nixon authorized a program of wiretaps which produced for the White House purely political or personal information unrelated to national security, including information about a Supreme Court Justice.

The COINTELPRO documents show numerous cases of the FBI's intentions to prevent and disrupt protests against the Vietnam War. Many techniques were used to accomplish this task. "These included promoting splits among antiwar forces, encouraging red-baiting of socialists, and pushing violent confrontations as an alternative to massive, peaceful demonstrations." One 1966 COINTELPRO operation attempted to redirect the Socialist Workers Party from their pledge of support for the antiwar movement.[33]

The FBI claims that it no longer undertakes COINTELPRO or COINTELPRO-like operations. However, critics claim that agency programs in the spirit of COINTELPRO targeted groups such as the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador,[34] the American Indian Movement,[2][35] Earth First!,[36] the White Separatist Movement,[37] and the Anti-Globalization Movement.[citation needed]
Methods
Body of Fred Hampton, national spokesman for the Black Panther Party, who was killed by members of the Chicago Police Department, as part of a COINTELPRO operation.[3][4][5][38]

According to attorney Brian Glick in his book War at Home, the FBI used four main methods during COINTELPRO:

Infiltration: Agents and informers did not merely spy on political activists. Their main purpose was to discredit and disrupt. Their very presence served to undermine trust and scare off potential supporters. The FBI and police exploited this fear to smear genuine activists as agents.
Psychological warfare: The FBI and police used myriad "dirty tricks" to undermine progressive movements. They planted false media stories and published bogus leaflets and other publications in the name of targeted groups. They forged correspondence, sent anonymous letters, and made anonymous telephone calls. They spread misinformation about meetings and events, set up pseudo movement groups run by government agents, and manipulated or strong-armed parents, employers, landlords, school officials and others to cause trouble for activists.
Legal harassment: The FBI and police abused the legal system to harass dissidents and make them appear to be criminals. Officers of the law gave perjured testimony and presented fabricated evidence as a pretext for false arrests and wrongful imprisonment. They discriminatorily enforced tax laws and other government regulations and used conspicuous surveillance, "investigative" interviews, and grand jury subpoenas in an effort to intimidate activists and silence their supporters.[3]
Illegal force: The FBI conspired with local police departments to threaten dissidents; to conduct illegal break-ins in order to search dissident homes; and to commit vandalism, assaults, beatings and assassinations.[3][4][5][39] The object was to frighten, or eliminate, dissidents and disrupt their movements.

The FBI specifically developed tactics intended to heighten tension and hostility between various factions in the black militancy movement, for example between the Black Panthers, the US Organization and the Blackstone Rangers. This resulted in numerous deaths, among which were San Diego Black Panther Party members John Huggins, Bunchy Carter and Sylvester Bell.[3]

The FBI also conspired with the police departments of many U.S. cities (San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Philadelphia, Chicago) to encourage repeated raids on Black Panther homes—often with little or no evidence of violations of federal, state, or local laws—which resulted directly in the police killing of many members of the Black Panther Party, most notably Chicago Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton on December 4, 1969.[3][4][5][40]

In order to eliminate black militant leaders whom they considered dangerous, the FBI is believed to have worked with local police departments to target specific individuals,[41] accuse them of crimes they did not commit, suppress exculpatory evidence and falsely incarcerate them.[citation needed] One Black Panther Party leader, Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, was incarcerated for 27 years before a California Superior Court vacated his murder conviction, ultimately freeing him. Appearing before the court, an FBI agent testified that he believed Pratt had been framed because both the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department knew he had been out of the area at the time the murder occurred. [42][43]

Some sources claim that the FBI conducted more than 200 "black bag jobs",[44][45] which were warrantless surreptitious entries, against the targeted groups and their members.[46]
J. Edgar Hoover

In 1969 the FBI special agent in San Francisco wrote Hoover that his investigation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) revealed that in his city, at least, the Panthers were primarily feeding breakfast to children. Hoover fired back a memo implying the career ambitions of the agent were directly related to his supplying evidence to support Hoover's view that the BPP was "a violence-prone organization seeking to overthrow the Government by revolutionary means".[47]

Hoover was willing to use false claims to attack his political enemies. In one memo he wrote: "Purpose of counterintelligence action is to disrupt the BPP and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge."[48]

In one particularly controversial 1965 incident, civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo was murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen who gave chase and fired shots into her car after noticing that her passenger was a young black man; one of the Klansmen was acknowledged FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe.[49][50] Rumors were spread that Liuzzo was a member of the Communist Party and abandoned her children to have sexual relationships with African Americans involved in the civil rights movement.[51][52] FBI records show that J. Edgar Hoover personally communicated these insinuations to President Johnson.[53][54] FBI informant Rowe has also been implicated in some of the most violent crimes of the 1960s civil rights era, including attacks on the Freedom Riders and the 1963 Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.[49] According to Chomsky, in another instance in San Diego the FBI financed, armed, and controlled an extreme right-wing group of former Minutemen, transforming it into a group called the Secret Army Organization which targeted groups, activists, and leaders involved in the Anti-War Movement for both intimidation and violent acts.[55][56][57]

Hoover ordered preemptive action "to pinpoint potential troublemakers and neutralize them before they exercise their potential for violence."[10][58]
Illegal surveillance

The final report of the Church Committee concluded:

Too many people have been spied upon by too many Government agencies and too much information has been collected. The Government has often undertaken the secret surveillance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even when those beliefs posed no threat of violence or illegal acts on behalf of a hostile foreign power. The Government, operating primarily through secret informants, but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone "bugs", surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information about the personal lives, views, and associations of American citizens. Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous -- and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations -- have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity.

Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views and their lifestyles. Investigations have been based upon vague standards whose breadth made excessive collection inevitable. Unsavory and vicious tactics have been employed -- including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. Intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials. While the agencies often committed excesses in response to pressure from high officials in the Executive branch and Congress, they also occasionally initiated improper activities and then concealed them from officials whom they had a duty to inform.

Governmental officials -- including those whose principal duty is to enforce the law --have violated or ignored the law over long periods of time and have advocated and defended their right to break the law.

The Constitutional system of checks and balances has not adequately controlled intelligence activities. Until recently the Executive branch has neither delineated the scope of permissible activities nor established procedures for supervising intelligence agencies. Congress has failed to exercise sufficient oversight, seldom questioning the use to which its appropriations were being put. Most domestic intelligence issues have not reached the courts, and in those cases when they have reached the courts, the judiciary has been reluctant to grapple with them.[59][60]

Post-COINTELPRO operations

While COINTELPRO was officially terminated in April 1971, continuing FBI actions indicate that post-COINTELPRO reforms did not succeed in ending COINTELPRO tactics.[61][62][63] Documents released under the FOIA show that the FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades.[64][65]

“Counterterrorism” guidelines implemented during the Reagan administration have been described as allowing a return to COINTELPRO tactics.[66] Some radical groups accuse factional opponents of being FBI informants or assume the FBI is infiltrating the movement.[67]

The FBI improperly opened investigations of American activist groups, even though they were planning nothing more than peaceful civil disobedience, according to a report by the inspector general (IG) of the U.S. Department of Justice. The review by the inspector general was launched in response to complaints by civil liberties groups and members of Congress. The FBI improperly monitored groups including the Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh-based peace group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), and Greenpeace USA, an environmental activism organization. Also, activists affiliated with Greenpeace were improperly put on a terrorist watch list, even though they were planning no violence or illegal acitivities. The IG report found the "troubling" FBI practices between 2001 and 2006. In some cases, the FBI conducted investigations of people affiliated with activist groups for "factually weak" reasons. Also, the FBI extended investigations of some of the groups "without adequate basis" and improperly kept information about activist groups in its files. The IG report also found that FBI Director Robert Mueller III provided inaccurate congressional testimony about one of the investigations, but this inaccuracy may have been due to his relying on what FBI officials told him.[68]

Several authors have accused the FBI of continuing to deploy COINTELPRO-like tactics against radical groups after the official COINTELPRO operations were ended. Several authors have suggested the American Indian Movement (AIM) has been a target of such operations. A few authors go further and allege that the federal government intended to acquire uranium deposits on the Lakota tribe's reservation land, and that this motivated a larger government conspiracy against AIM activists on the Pine Ridge reservation.[2][35][69][70][71] Others believe COINTELPRO continues and similar actions are being taken against activist groups.[71][72][73]

Caroline Woidat argued that with respect to Native Americans, COINTELPRO should be understood within a historical context in which "Native Americans have been viewed and have viewed the world themselves through the lens of conspiracy theory."[74]

Covert Government Investigations, using community policing. AKA Gang Stalking in UK



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There are people in large metropolitan cities being stalked, harassed, mobbed, and followd around and many do not know why. Many are having to change jobs, move constantly, have their lives disrupted and they cannot find help or assistance for what is happening to them. Many are stumbling in the dark and being mislead by those around them. I hope to the best of my ability to shed a little bit more light on what is happening and help others better start to find help and assistance.

I am looking for volunteers who are willing to assist innocent people in major cities who are being targeted by covert government investigations. These investigations have been masked for the last few years online under the title of gang stalking.

This is what is happening and this is why these people need your assistance with getting in touch with the right channels. Many people who are going to be reading this article are probably a part of these programs and many people probably do not realise the damage they are doing to others. Here is some information that you need to know.

What is gang stalking?

Gang stalking is a modern day form of the Cointelpro [sic it is properly written COINTELPRO because it is an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program instead of a simple word. It will hereinafter be written as COINTELPRO], program, that ran in the United States and in other countries under different names. Eg. In Canada it was called V.I.P.S. is also a part of the New Community Based Policing efforts combined with the reemergence of Police Red Squads, which have been in existence on and off for close to a hundred years.

Editor's Note: COINTELPRO was never discontinued after Senator Frank Church advised the F.B.I. to discontinue it and instead just continue its interstate activities regarding interstate crime. See http://www.truedemocracy.net/books.htm for proof.

The new forms of these programs combines the organised stalking and mobbing of the targets of these programs that take place primarily in the target's community. What will happen is that files will be opened on targets of these harassment programs, and the State or officials of the State, such as the FBI, CIA, RCMP, CSIS, or local police will go around and tell the friend, family, co-workers, landlords, and community of the targeted individual at large is under investigation. They will say that the target is a terrorist, crazy, drug dealer, someone who needs to be watched. They will ask for, or in many cases force the corporation of the targeted individual till the target becomes increasingly more cut off from their sources of support, making it easier to harass and psychologically harm them over time.

"The new versions of these programs use the community based policing programs to help with the stalking and monitoring of the targeted individual; that is why the target will complain of being followed around in public by strangers they do not know. They are being followed around by the new eyes and ears of the state, their fellow citizens who for various reasons have decided to become informants for the state. This is happening in many democratic countries and cities.

Other names for Gang Stalking

There are many names for this form of harassment, it would also now seem that Gang Stalking is a term that was invented as part of the disinformation campaign that the government is good at putting together while these harassment campaigns are running. Some of the more popular names for this form of harassment have been COINTELPRO, Red Squads, and now with the new community based policing programs we have names coming up such as: Multi stalking, vengeance stalking, cause stalking, stalking by proxy, organised stalking,
organised harassment, group stalking, community mobbing. These are the new names being given to a very old game, that is once again being played by the government on its unsuspecting citizens.

Who gets targeted?

Gang stalking can happen to anyone, but it is being widely used on minorities, outspoken individuals, whistle blowers, dissidents, people who go up against large wealthy corporations, woman's groups, (single) women, anti-war proponents, and other innocent individuals. The majority of the targets are not aware this is happening to them and it continues for years. Even when a target moves, changes jobs, the harassment still continues. Every time the target moves, the government, or the local intelligence unit of the police will follow them around and start to spread the same lies, and slander to their new employers, coworkers, landlords, etc.

What are the goals of this campaign?

The goal is to isolate the target from all forms of support, so that the target can be set up in the future for arrest, institutionalisation, or forced suicide. Other goals of this harassment include sensitize the target to every day stimulus as a form of control. These people also want to make the targets of this harassment vulnerable, they want to make them destitute. The secondary goals seem to be to make the target homeless, jobless, give them a breakdown, and the primary goals seem to be to drive the target to forced suicide, just like what they did with some of the targets of COINTELPRO. Who gang stalks?

People from all walks of life are being recruited to be the eyes and ears of the state. People from all races, ages, genders and walks of life. You have your garden variety snitches, you have general labourers, the very wealthy, biker, drug dealers, user, street people, punks, hip hop culture, KKK, black activists, church groups, youth groups, every sector of society that you can think of is a part of this. The ages range from five to eighty five and older.

The surprising thing is that gang stalkers can be found in every level of society. There is no real age barrier, gender barrier, and a variety of races do participate. In almost every occupation in society you can find people who are going along with this.

Gang stalking for some is seen as a game of cat and mouse. They see themselves as heroic spies for the state. Some are just power hungry slithering money hungry snitches, who would sell their mothers down the drain, much less innocent people. Others are asked and do it out of a sense of patriotic duty, others are forced to take part in the spying activity. Many do not understand or care that the end consequence of this game is to destroy a person.

Why people take part?

There are many reasons that someone takes part in this activity.

1. Some do it for the sense of power that it gives them.

2. Others do this as a way to make friends and keep friends. It is something social and fun for them to do.

3. Other are forced or blackmailed or forced by the State or the police into taking part.

4. They are told that they are part of homeland or national security and being used to help keep an eye on dangerous individuals.

5. Others are just local thugs or informants who are already being used for other activities, and their energies are just diverted over into these community spy programs. Eg. Some may be given the choice of Spying for the State or the police vs going to jail.

Where does gang stalking occur?

This harassment occurs out in public, as well as in private. The goal of this modern day COINTELPRO program is to have the target under stress 24/7. Once a person is chosen for this harassment the police or the state are quick to start an investigation into their lives. They will find out everything about a target. Where they live, who their friends are, their family, where they work, where they shop, their most intimate habits. Then they will try to get into every aspect, and I do mean every aspect of a target's life. They will even try to wiretap phones, link into cell phone signals, monitor Internet activity, divert mail and Email. They hijack your life, they want you to feel like they are in charge of your life 24/7. They also want you to know this is going on, it is a way to psychologically immobilise and cripple a target. The people around you who you thought you could once trust, are forced to keep quiet and often take part in this ritual of a thousand paper cuts that is designed to destroy the target over time.

Techniques Used

A large part of this harassment involves psychological harassment of the targets. To achieve this a profile of the target is gathered and then a program of harassment is implemented using many of the methods below.

Brighting

As targets walk on the street, usually at night, Suburban Spies will turn on their high beams. This might be flashed once or twice at targets. The idea is to intimidate the target and let them know they are being watched at all times.

Crowding/Mobbing

When the target is in public, Suburban Spies will usually try to box the target in. Eg. They will surround the target in a square like formation if possible. They will stand too close to the target or swarm them.

Directed Conversations

These are conversations that complete strangers will have out in public relating to the target and their personal situations. Eg. They will repeat things a target said in their home, or on the phone. They will let drop very personal details into the conversation, that could only be related to the target.

Eg. Suburban Spy1. It's a shame Uncle Ed won't be able to come.

Suburban Spy 2. Yeah since he died golfing on Saturday.

The target will just have learned of a death of a favored uncle, (possibly named Ed.) while out golfing.

Directed Energy Weapons

Electronic Harassment. Usually when they feel they have psychologically targeted a target to where they are near breakdown they will start to use these weapons. They will also use these weapons if targets are not going along with their harassment protocol.

Investigation Files

It has been indicated that targets will have files shown to relatives, store keepers and friends. The files are usually not left behind, but they are used to show legitimacy and to further slander targets. They are also used to get the participation and co-oporation of the people in the target's life, with their harassment.

The files might have a picture of the target, and lies or slanderous information about some alleged crime that they might be responsible for. The information is not true, but it is usually very convincing and helps to further get targets harassed by those around them.

Gaslighting

Doing little things to try to make the target think that they are going crazy. Coming into their homes, moving their furniture around. Changing clothing that they bought and replacing it with similar, but inferior items. Taking small items and then replacing them later on.

Gassing/Poisoning

Spraying fumes or scents into a target's home. Tampering with their food to make them become very ill.

Illegal Entry

To gas light the target. It is used to help profile the target. To set up illegal surveillance. It is a way to find out intimate details about the targets. This can be used later to set up the target by using people in photo albums, or by directed conversations about things in the target's apartment.

Illegal Surveillance

This involves setting up audio and visual surveillance of the target.

Bugging the target's phone, or using external listening devices. Video surveillance inside or most likely outside of the target's residence Listening to cell phone and hard line conversations. Hacking into their computers and learning all about what the target is doing, websites they frequent. This also helps to build a profile of the target, and it is also used for later psychological attacks against the target.

Illuminating Targets

This is something that the East German Statsi secret police did to targets. They would spray the target's clothing with materials that would make them glow, or they would irradiate the targets with X-rays so that they glowed in the dark. There are harmful and harmless chemicals that will achieve this effect.

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Intimate Infiltration

This is where Suburban Spies will go out of their way to get into a target's life. They will try to form friendships with targets. They will try to form intimate relationships with targets.

They will get close to people that are affiliated with targets. Years before the target ever realises they are targets they will try to get into a target's life.

Eg. If they can't get into your life, but you have a best friend, their new significant other might just be a Suburban Spy. The same goes for siblings and the people that enter their lives.

Isolation

For this harassment to be successful, it is important to be able to isolate the target from friends, family members, co-workers and even spouses. To accomplish this isolation many methods are used including, but not limited to: slander, lies, files, sabotage, anything that will get the target into a situation where they have no support system. This is important for this COINTELPRO like harassment to succeed.

Mail and Email tampering

Suburban Spies will steal your mail. They will delay the delivery of your mail, and they will also make sure that your mail does not arrive. The other thing they are known for is the tampering of Email. They will delay Email, delete Email, and stop Email that you have sent from arriving.

Mimicking

This is trying to copy things in a target's life.

Leaving when they do.
Dressing like they dress.
Throwing out the garbage
Going to the bathroom
Doing whatever the target is doing.

This is all designed to be psychological warfare, so that the target again feels like they are under observation at all times.

Profiling

Targets will be observed and profiled long before they ever become aware that they are targeted for this sort of harassment. Profiles will be created on targets by:

Following them.
Following people close to them.
Breaking into their homes and going through their stuff.
Listening to their calls.
Hacking into their computers.
Gathering information from friends and family.
Seeing where they like to shop and eat.
What are their weaknesses?
What things do they like and dislike?

This will all be used to put together a profile of the target and then to get them into situations for their detriment.

Random Encounters

This will be people on the street who you randomly and unexpectedly run into. It looks completely natural and it seems to be a random encounter. They might ask for your phone number after engaging you in conversation. Ask you out, or just ask you where you are going. Anything from small talk to lengthier conversations.

All with the purpose of finding out something about you, or even just getting you to do something.

Ruined Relationship

When targets are in a relationship, the Suburban Spies will try to ruin that relationship. This could be friendships, family, or significant others.

If it is a romantic relationship, they will find out what your significant other likes and try to get them to cheat, or leave you.

If it is a friendship they will tell lies to come between you. The same goes for family. This is done so that targets will have no means of support, once they do realise that something is going wrong in their lives.

Sensitization

This is getting targets sensitive to an everyday stimuli. Eg. Colors, patterns or everyday actions. Eg. Red, stripes, pens, whistles, loud coughing, clapping, waves, keys jingling.

Eg. Joe will be mobbed at work and as part of that daily mobbing his co-workers will loudly cough at him every time they harass him by calling him names like loser, worthless, lame, demented. They will slander him and have others as they are slandering him show disgust by glaring and coughing at him.

Out in public they will follow him loudly and obnoxiously coughing at him. When he goes to stores they will get others to do the same. After months or years of this, Joe has become sensitive to this stimuli and it can be used to harass him without the names and the glaring looks. The association has been formed because of all the other harassment.

Eg. A girl is sexually assaulted and a sock is shoved in her mouth during the assault. To keep her quiet or stop her from pressing charges, the assailant, his friends and family will follow her around and throw socks in her path, mention it everywhere she goes and show her their socks every chance they get. She will get the message they are sending. Because of the brutal attack, she and what has happened after she is now sensitised.

Signals/Symbols

It has been said that Suburban Spies in some states will have gang decals on their cars and trucks.

They will also communicate with each other on the street by using Stasi like signals. Below are some examples. SIGNALS FOR OBSERVATION

1. Watch out! Subject is coming - touch nose with hand or handkerchief
2. Subject is moving on, going further, or overtaking - stroke hair with hand, or raise hat briefly
3. Subject standing still - lay one hand against back, or on stomach
4. Observing Agent wishes to terminate observation because cover threatened - bend and retie shoelaces
5. Subject returning - both hands against back, or on stomach
6. Observing Agent wishes to speak with Team Leader or other Observing Agents - take out briefcase or equivalent and examine contents.

The new breed of stalkers will use signals that might be based on a one handed sign language called talking hands used by the police. They will use signals like the double blink to say that they understand. Squeesing the nose to say I know, or for pointing and directional signal, touching the eyes to indicate they are on watch or to watch the target, brushing the hair back three times, or covering the mouth or pretending to yawn, to begin communication.

Slander

They will go behind the target's back and tell lies about them. Often the lies will consist of the target being into something illegal, or is someone dangerous, or just needs to be watched for some vague reason. This was used in COINTELPRO and it was very effective in ruining the lives of many targets.

Eg. They will say the target is crazy, a terrorist, drug dealer or user, a prostitute, gay, racist, pedophile, etc.

Sleep Disturbance

Depriving the target of sleep is a really good way of leaving the target stressed out. It is also a way of leaving them disoriented and functioning at less than 100%. Then the targets can be baited into reacting in public, or getting into a car accident.

Strange Encounters or Street Theatre

This is running into people that are acting very unusual, or people that are putting on a show or production, known as street threater.

Eg. This could be as minor as public rudeness, or people acting out a skit or skits for your benefit. There will usually be someone nearby to see how you react to it. This is again looking for weakness or reactions. If you show an adverse reaction they will try to embelish on this and use it against you later on.

Telephone Redirects

When you make a telephone call, get the name and ID of the person that you are speaking to. Suburban Spies have been known to redirect phone calls. This means that when you dial a number they will intercept that phone call and pretend to be the service or repair person you were trying to call. Eg. If you call the cable company, gas, or phone company be sure you know that it is actually them that you are speaking to.

Theft

Breaking into a target's home and taking small items, usually nothing of value. However there are exceptions to every rule. Suburban Spies will usually try to see what they can get away with.

Tracking

The targets are tracked by various methods.

Targets are tracked on foot by foot soldiers.
They are tracked in their cars.
Targets can be tracked by using their cell phones. If their cell phone number is known, there are Internet programs that will track a target to within a few feet. GPS tracking on their cars and laptops. These are all ways that targets are tracked where they go and their activities monitored.

Vandalism

If the target owns property this can be as simple as broken door handles, knobs, to actual slashing of tires. They will also break in and do small damage to items the target owns. Eg. If you buy a new sweater, they might break in and cut holes in it. Holes in undergarments.

If you go to a store to get a repair done check for damages. This applies to boots and coats. Eg. Zippers and the heals of long heeled boots.

Wrong Number Calls

Targets will daily get wrong number calls. These can be automated or they can be persons pretending to be wrong number calls. Suburban Spies will use this as a way to annoy targets, but they will also use this as a way to keep in constant contact with their targets. They want to know where the target is at all times.

Effects of COINTELPRO, Red Squad, Community Policing, gang stalking.

1. The target becomes hypersensitive, and, yes, in many cases paranoid. They can not understand how so many people could be doing this. The idea after all is to make them seem crazy when they try to get help, or tell others this is happening to them.

2. Targets become depressed and isolated, which is the key goal. If you do not isolate the target, it cannot work.

3. Targets become sensitised to stimuli. Colors, patterns, noises, actions, etc. Targets have their reputations ruined and destroyed due to slander campaigns which are a big part of the harassment protocol. They want the target's credibility to come into question. The target apparently is unaware, but everyone else gets in on the action.

Fighting the new COINTELPRO and Red Squads, AKA. Gang Stalking

Like other forms of harassment, it comes down to the what can I get away with factor. Here are some things that you can do to fight or bring awareness to the issue of gang stalking.

1. Write an article or share your story about the new COINTELPRO.

Editor's note: COINTELPRO never ended, so "new COINTELPRO" is a misnomer.

2. Educate yourself and those around you about COINTELPRO and Red Squads.
3. The more people that know the better. Many members of society participate in this, without realising what they are really being a part of.
4. We need to get laws in place to fight this type of harassment.
5. Do not go along with this COINTELPRO activity. Try to find ways to help the target.
6. Educate others that COINTELPRO is wrong. Red Squads are police harassment.
7. Have open discussions about COINTELPRO, Red Squads, Community policing, and harassment.
8. COINTELPRO is illegal, even when the police will not help, it is still illegal.
Take action on the new COINTELPRO and the reemerging Red Squads for yourself and other targets.
9. We need local newspaper articles, online articles.
10. We need postings on forums and other places of popularity.
11. Email awareness.
12. We need flyers.
13. We need websites, making as many people aware of this as possible.
14. We need law suits period.
15. We need support from community based organizations worldwide.
16. People need easy access to their freedom of information records.

There are many resources on the Internet and elsewhere about this form of harassment.

Report:

1. http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/police/pdq-eng.PDF

Books:
1. Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall "COINTELPRO Papers"
2. Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads and Police Repression in Urban America
3. Gloria Naylor. "1996"
4. Victor Santoro "GASLIGHTING How To Drive Your Enemies Crazy "
5. Stephen Knight "The Brotherhood"

Videos: COINTELPRO:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si1bHa45u18

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqMcafwFJ8

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN9TZDL4WqI

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbMsOGWN_ts

COINTELPRO:

1. http://www.albionmonitor.com/9711b/policing.html
2. http://www.aztlan.net/covert.html
3. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...43/ai_11559671
4. http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/354278.shtml
5. http://gangstalkingworld.com/Forum/Y...num=1170563559
6. http://www.buzzflash.com/contributor.../19_Spies.html
7. http://nord.twu.net/acl/agenda21.html
8. http://rwor.org/a/v24/1161-1170/1161/tips.htm
9. http://www.totse.com/en/law/justice_.../redfiles.html

Articles:

1. http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/news/korea.php
2. http://educate-yourself.org/cn/group...g17aug05.shtml
3. http://www.newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter78.htm
4. http://magic-city-news.com/article_6147.shtml
5. http://sbindymedia.org/newswire/display/1278/index.php
6. http://gangstalking.ca/reference/bradford.htm

Websites:

1. http://www.rich-essence.com/
2. http://www.gangstalkingworld.com/
3. http://www.harassment101.com/
4. http://stoporganizedstalking.org/
5. http://www.cointelpro2.com/

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This is how I imagine most Americans live their lives. Pretty sad.

Cancun

Davino, ****ing awesome thread obviously

This way of life is beyond my comprehension. I have no idea what's going on other than that it's amazing, terrifying, hilarious and fascinating at the same time

Did not read all the long posts but will do another time. Pictures deliver as always

Thanks

cliffs burn your eyes out ugly chicks plus a ******ed tool saga...

^^^Prob second hottest chick ITT so far.

The blonde below seemed abnormally cute for this thread (at least a solid 6 from that pic. A 47 on the 'Davino' scale) I can only assume she had a dick or was a space alien/double reverse government agent or something?

will be saving this thread to show my future kids what happens when you take drugs.

also, i will eat my hat if you don't have herpes.

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I had this one down in 2nd place, but it's definitely close:

How much I adore you I can't even explain. Too many pages to actually see if you put me in here...but guess what...I'm not a butsa bitch and i love Dave with all my heart...he's actually very sweet and a hell of a poker player as long as he's not at my table. LOL....I better not be in here Dave...I know where you live. LOL

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Seriously? I mean Seriously? Call you tomorrow I'll be around Tuesday...FYI guys not a busta guy here.

Oh yeah. Thanks Trudy.

Excellent read. Took the time to read all the links and wasn't disappointed.

A+

I'm running out of tinfoil for my hats!

if at first you dont succeed....

pics or gtfo op..

you're a legend Davino if I'm ever in the US I'll hit you up btw dnr thread but pics?