I've seen this floating around, I don't doubt it, but I'd like to see a comprehensive source that explains this, or at least multiple sources.
I've seen this floating around, I don't doubt it, but I'd like to see a comprehensive source that explains this, or at least multiple sources.
We actually don't know if this is true. If you listen to the TrueAnon episode on the matter, one of the researchers explains that it looks like the raid may have been done by the Chicago police without the FBI's knowledge. Not because the FBI is above that kind of thing, but because their style of subversion is more sophisticated than the meathead cops', and there is evidence that the FBI wanted to continue its surveillance of Hampton so that they could break his spirit like they did to Huey Newton, instead of turning him into a martyr.
RevLeft Radio on "Revisiting the Assassination of Fred Hampton" talked to two authors that had just received FOIA docs on his assassination. As soon as Fred Hampton is assassinated, the FBI agent in charged got a bonus.
That's also in the TrueAnon episode. We're not saying the FBI is against other orgs assassinating leftists just that they don't have a history of doing that themselves.
IIRC there was also some memos with them bemoaning all the informants they lost because of that raid.
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