Chronicles from the FBI. Guest Post by Skinny.
The Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO: Activists Mark 50th Anniversary of Daring FBI Break-in. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Fifty years ago this week, a group of activists staged one of the most stunning acts of defiance of the Vietnam War era. Capitol Hill Rioters Being Arrested After FBI Finds Them. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag Rioters attempt to enter the Capitol at the House steps on Jan. 6.
WASHINGTON — On Feb. 13, Maryland State Police officers encountered Daniel Egtvedt trying to stop an older relative from leaving home to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Another family member had called the police, fearing Egtvedt would use “physical interference,” according to court papers. Egtvedt allegedly told the officers at the time that he wouldn’t let his relative leave because of a fringe conspiracy theory that the vaccine would “eventually kill off a lot of people as a population control method from the government.” Dominic Pezzola Suspects the FBI's Cooperating Witness Is the Guy Who Recruited Him into the Proud Boys. A number of people are pointing to this motion to modify bond by Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola, the guy who helped kick off an insurrection by breaking the window of the Capitol with a stolen police shield, reporting either that Pezzola is bidding to plead out or that that the Proud Boys are turning on themselves.
Both may be true. But buried within the filing is a far more inflammatory allegation. Murdered FBI Agents Had Spent Careers Fighting for Kids. Now, the two who died while carrying out their duties in Sunrise have been identified, per NBC News.
In a Tuesday statement, FBI Director Christopher Wray named Special Agents Daniel Alfin, 36, and Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, who’d dedicated their careers to fighting child pornography. “Every day, FBI special agents put themselves in harm’s way to keep the American people safe,” Wray said. “Special Agent Alfin and Special Agent Schwartzenberger exemplified heroism today in defense of their country.”
The Washington Post notes that between the two of them, Alfin and Schwartzenberger had almost 30 years of combating child exploitation and abuse. FBI Declassifies J. Edgar Hoover’s Extensive File On The Munster Family. WASHINGTON—Unsealing the dossier after nearly 50 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation declassified former director J.
Edgar Hoover’s extensive file on the Munster family, sources confirmed Monday. “These 3,600 documents reveal that the California monster family were of significant interest to J. Edgar Hoover during his extrajudicial intelligence-gathering campaigns,” said Andrew Jewett, an American History professor at Harvard, adding that from 1964-66 the FBI chief had obtained numerous tapes of the Munsters and instructed federal agents to transcribe all conversations of the 1313 Mockingbird Lane residents. “According to multiple letters to officials, Hoover suspected that Munster family patriarch Vladimir Dracula or ‘Grandpa’ was a communist working in his dungeon laboratory to develop chemical weapons to use on American soldiers and civilians.
Spotlight on the FBI: The Bureau’s Checkered Past and Present. We presented a story on March 27, 2017 — Why FBI Can’t Tell All on Trump, Russia — that contained troubling information about the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Some found it shocking, even during these times when nothing seems shocking anymore. To be sure, with the FBI, as with all institutions, there are extenuating circumstances, the competing priorities and agendas, unrealistic expectations, and tremendous pressure — from the press, from the public, and from above — to produce results. This pressure may partly explain the bad choices the Bureau continues to make. Partly. The Breakthrough: Uncovering the FBI’s Secret Rules. Log In. US Law Enforcement Knew Florida Shooter BEFORE Shooting. FBI Admits Decades of Flaws in Hair Analysis, Putting Countless Innocents in Prison. READ: J. Edgar Hoover’s wretched attempt to destroy Martin Luther King in a letter. Beverly Gage is a Yale University professor who finds ways to tell us about our present by looking at the past.
She is married to a friend of mine, Dan Perkins, who is better known as the cartoonist Tom Tomorrow. In her first book, Gage re-examined a somewhat forgotten episode of New York history — a 1920 bombing of Wall Street that had eery echoes for the terrorist attacks that hit the city 81 years later. Now, she’s working on a book about J. Lighting the Terrorist Fuse. Terrorist plots are suddenly everywhere.
In Baltimore last week, a 21-year-old construction worker tried to blow up a military recruitment center. In late November, federal law enforcement officials arrested a Somalia-born teenager for plotting to bomb a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. Mae Brussell: ABSCAM - PT 1 of 5 (02-08-1980) FBI attempts to explain UFO memo in vault. The mystery memo (FBI.gov) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has broken its silence on the most popular file in its digital vault.
The one-page memo, dated March 22, 1950, was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI's Washington, D.C., field office. It relayed some information from an informant. The subject: "An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico," Hottel writes. No further evaluation was attempted, Hottel reports.