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Date: February 16, 2007 12:08:18 AM PST
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Subject: FBI's COINTELPRO Alive and Well Today
Remembering the Civil Rights era in Alabama: "In a press release,
the FBI said it had valid reasons for withholding information from
local authorities. Foremost, the bureau did not want to expose and
thereby jeopardize their many Birmingham informants who were deeply
imbedded in the Ku Klux Klan."
http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/
birmingham_church/10.html
Researchers estimate that, in the Deep South in the early 60s, 50%
of the Ku Klux Klan was on the FBI's payroll, either as "paid
informants" or as agents on active duty working undercover. None
intervened during lynchings, bombings, and other criminal
violations of the law if "Negroes" were victims.
It was J. Edgar Hoover's off-the-books FBI policy to destroy the
Civil Rights movement and its leaders.
Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant
Henry Pierson Curtis
Orlando Sentinel, February 15, 2007
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-
mhate1507feb15,0,4658933.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
A paid FBI informant was the man behind a neo-Nazi march through
the streets of Parramore that stirred up anxiety in Orlando's black
community and fears of racial unrest that triggered a major police
mobilization.
That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court
hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom
demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was,
itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.
The FBI would not comment on what it knew about the involvement of
its informant, 39-year-old David Gletty of Orlando, in the neo-Nazi
event. In court Wednesday, an FBI agent said the bureau has paid
its informant at least $20,000 during the past two years.
"Wow," Gletty said when reached by phone late Wednesday. "It is
what it is. You were there in court. I can't really go into any
detail now."
Orlando City Councilwoman Daisy Lynum, whose district includes the
march route west of Interstate 4, said she wants to know who was
behind the march, the neo-Nazis or the FBI and other law-
enforcement agencies.
"If it was staged, I would feel very uncomfortable and would ask
for a full-scale investigation," Lynum said. "To come into a
predominantly black community which could have resulted in great
harm to the black community? I would hate to be part of a game.
It's a mockery to the community for someone else to be playing a
game with the community."
Others applauded the FBI's infiltration of the neo-Nazis.
"It's one of the largest extremist groups in the country, and
Gletty was one of the most visible individuals in the National
Socialist Movement," said Andy Rosenkranz, state regional director
for the Anti-Defamation League. "Generally, the FBI and the JTTF
(Joint Terrorism Task Force) in Florida does an excellent job."
Rally puts city in spotlight
Orlando drew national attention when the city granted a permit to
Gletty so a minimum of 100 white supremacists and National
Socialist Movement members could march Feb. 25 through the
historically black Parramore neighborhood.
Wearing swastikas and holding signs declaring "White Pride," the 22
neo-Nazis who turned out were protected from 500 counterprotesters
by about 300 police officers.
Gletty's secret life became public Wednesday in a federal court
hearing resulting from the arrest last week of two suspected white
supremacists on charges of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
Last Thursday, the FBI arrested Tom Martin, 23, and John Rock, 35,
after Gletty wore a wire to a meeting and agreed to help them rob a
drug dealer in Casselberry, according to testimony.
Rock told Gletty in a tape-recorded conversation that he and Martin
had robbed seven drug dealers by posing as law-enforcement
officers, according to testimony. Martin and Rock remain held
without bail in the Seminole County Jail.
Slip-up lets name out of bag
Throughout most of the hearing, Gletty was referred to as "Mr. X"
or "CW" (cooperating witness). His identity was revealed when
Assistant Federal Public Defender Peter W. Kenny repeatedly slipped
up and mentioned Gletty's full name.
FBI agent Kevin Farrington and a federal prosecutor were clearly
uncomfortable with the disclosure of the informant's name in open
court.
Questioned about Gletty's role in the march, Farrington testified
that "he participated in it. He did not organize it. . . . [That's]
pretty good firsthand information, sir."
The city parade permit, however, lists Gletty as the "on scene
event manager."
And pictures of Gletty addressing marchers sporting swastika
armbands for the Orlando rally appear on a neo-Nazi Web site.
Captions from other photos on the site mock the
counterdemonstrators and the police presence.
On another Web site, Gletty details his role in organizing the
Orlando event and hosting a victory party afterward.
"On 1/17/06 I got the permits and started the ball rolling," he
writes. "On 2/25/06 at 3 pm on saturday [sic] in downtown Orlando
My crew and I got it done."
In another part of the posting, he writes: "Since I was the permit
holder I was the person to deal with the police and had over-all
authority of the event."
No word from FBI
FBI officials did not return calls asking for specifics about the
agency's relationship with Gletty. A tree-trimmer in Orlando, he
withdrew from the National Socialist Movement last fall to pursue
other projects, Farrington testified.
Orlando police Deputy Chief Pete Gauntlett, who supervised the
march preparations, would not say what the FBI told police about
Gletty and other marchers.
"We let them express their free speech and let them do what they're
allowed to do, but we wanted to have control," Gauntlett said.
Bill White, a former spokesman for the National Socialist Movement
who participated in the rally and now runs another neo-Nazi group,
said he was surprised to hear of Gletty's involvement with the FBI.
He said Gletty did a lot for the cause.
A neo-Nazi offers his take
"If he was being sponsored by the FBI, then American National
Socialism has a lot to thank the FBI for," White said in an e-mail.
Lynum said that if the FBI was behind the march, she would like the
agency to reimburse the city for the tens of thousands it spent to
send officers -- including SWAT-team and mounted-unit members -- to
police the march.
Adora Obi Nweze, president of the State Conference NAACP in Miami,
said she was disturbed an informant set up the march and was
working for the FBI.
"That's very troubling that somebody like that would be an
informant for the FBI," she said. "You never know what they are
capable of. No question, it bothers me."
But Alzo Reddick, a former state legislator who grew up in
segregated Orlando, lived through KKK marches and later taught
black history, said he was proud of the way the police and the
community responded. He was a member of the "Be Cool" movement
organized to calm the community before the march.
"I think law enforcement has to walk in some murky places to be
where the bad guys are," Reddick said. "Was the FBI informant an
activist or a participant? Was he the agent provocateur from the
get-go? Sure, that would be part of what I'd like to know."
Rene Stutzman, Jim Leusner and Willoughby Mariano of the Sentinel
staff contributed to this report. Henry Pierson Curtis can be
reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 407-420-5257.
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