It’s always the guy with the guns
Richard Aoki was an FBI informant.
One of the Bay Area’s most prominent radical activists of the era, Richard Masato Aoki was known as a fierce militant who touted his street-fighting abilities. He was a member of several radical groups before joining and arming the Panthers, whose members received international notoriety for brandishing weapons during patrols of the Oakland police and a protest at the state Capitol.
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But unbeknownst to his fellow activists, Aoki had served as an FBI intelligence informant, covertly filing reports on a wide range of Bay Area political groups, according to the bureau agent who recruited him.
One wonders just how many radical/militant/hate groups have been either founded or substantially radicalized by the feds. If there isn’t already a movie about gangs, radical activist groups and conspiracies therebetween, wherein you find out only at the end that every single person involved is an undercover fed (unbeknownst to every other fed) there should be. Better yet it would be a documentary. We could start with Fast & Furious, but I think we could go back decades in time and come up with a fair number of them.
Lyle
21 August 2012 at 15:26