Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder

In March 1976, we sat in a cavernous Chicago courtroom while FBI agent Roy Martin Mitchell testified in the federal civil rights case that we and our partners at the People’s Law Office had brought on behalf of the families of slain Illinois Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and the seven survivors of the murderous pre-dawn Chicago police raid on their West Side apartment.

Thanks to the liberation of FBI documents from the Media, Pennsylvania FBI offices, the revelations of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities and our own hotly contested pretrial battles to uncover the truth about the raid, we had been able to document the local FBI’s central role in setting up the raid as part of the Bureau’s secret and highly illegal COINTELPRO Program. This program had previously targeted Black liberation leaders including Malcom X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Elijah Muhammad and the organizations that they led. As the Senate Select Committee would later find in its April 1976 report, the FBI had more recently turned its attention to “destroy[ing] the Black Panther Party.”

Roy Martin Mitchell was an integral member of the Chicago FBI office’s Racial Matters Squad and the control agent for a prized “asset”: informant-provocateur William O’Neal, who was the captain of security of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). As such, O’Neal had ready access to the local BPP chairman, the dynamic Fred Hampton, who had garnered particular attention from Mitchell, his Racial Matters Squad and the COINTELPRO program.

New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder

Attorneys Flint Taylor and Jeff Haas on their report "New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder" for Truthout.

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Hoover was the body remover

There's always been suspicions with evidence ever since it happened in Dec 1969 😎


This book (Nov 2019) has some great points

No doubt whatsoever Hoover was as shady as f, he pulled a lot of strings..had a lot of dirt on file!

Didn't they find evidence several years ago that Hoover knew some guy was innocent, but allow him to die in prison anyway? I recall there were people who wanted to take his name off the FBI building because of it.

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Every step of the way the people we have entrusted with our nation have stabbed us in the back. 2020 is a testament to this multiple myriad failures of both conscience and constitution.

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But yet many people want to act like the feds wouldn't attempt to unseat a President?

There are some crooked and very sly people are all levels of government which is why it is important that we limit government's power as much as possible. I simply cannot understand people who put so much faith in government.

Hoover was probably complicit in both of the Kenney killings.

Has happened throughout our history, you don't get to be a World Super Power without cracking a few eggs. Hoover was the master, books full of 'secrets' will never be released. If they were the public would see it's not one or two instances, it's a history chock full of nefarious political and governmental episodes. Cover-ups aren't new either wonder why none of the actors behind Smedley Butler were not prosecuted or even mentioned publicly, deals were made and agreements were agreed upon.

Just like now, Democrats and Republicans are negotiating back and forth, but they are all the same neither want the other gone because then there would be no one to blame and occupy the public minds and energy.

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Hoover was probably complicit in both of the Kenney killings.

Very possible, even though he likely enjoyed having something to hold over them, and manipulate them with too. Some say it's why the Kennedy's had Marilyn Monroe killed, Hoover was using his knowledge of the affairs against both of them.

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i keep on telling people it's the bureaucrats that need to be watched just as much it not more than the elected.

those people make it up as they go along, setting their own rules and regulations.