Reply #33: Or this case. It was a very strange time here back then, and I watched [View All]

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a BBC documentary that also came to the conclusion that these two were/are innocent:

http://www.sfbayview.com/2008/cointelpro-plot-against-%e2%80%98omaha-2%e2%80%99-included-a-cadre-of-top-fbi-officials/print/


COINTELPRO plot against ‘Omaha 2’ included a cadre of top FBI officials

Posted By mary On December 10, 2008 @ 9:52 pm In Prison Stories | No Comments

by Michael Richardson





Ed Poindexter In Omaha, Nebraska, the leaders of a Black Panther group, Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa (formerly David Rice), were the targets of a clandestine operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation code-named COINTELPRO. J. Edgar Hoover, then FBI director, had ordered the massive but secret operation against the Panthers and other domestic political organizations and individuals. Hoover’s goal was to “disrupt” the Black Panthers out of existence by targeting its leadership for elimination, prosecution and a host of dirty tricks.

The Aug. 17, 1970, bombing murder of Omaha policeman Larry Minard provided Hoover and his operatives with the opportunity to put the “Omaha 2″ behind bars by charging them with the crime. Officer Minard had been lured to a vacant house by an anonymous phone call about a woman screaming; however, a tape recording of the killer’s voice on the emergency call system was an obstacle to the prosecution of the two Panther leaders.

A month after FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered the lab report withheld (above), he wrote in another extremely candid memo: “Purpose of counterintelligence action is to disrupt BPP and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge.”A plan was quickly hatched in Omaha to send the tape recording to the FBI Crime Laboratory for vocal analysis. But even before Minard’s mangled body was buried, J. Edgar Hoover had issued an order to the crime lab director, Ivan Willard Conrad, to withhold a formal lab report on the tape. Conrad spoke to Hoover on the phone on Aug. 19 about the unusual order to derail the investigation, noting on his copy of the COINTELPRO memorandum that Hoover said it was “OK to do.”

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It's been far too long. The same for Peltier.