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On 9/7/12 12:41 PM, Dan R wrote:
The records chronicle Aoki’s 16-year career as an informant during the time he was a student at Merritt College in Oakland and at UC Berkeley, participating in a series of radical groups, including the Black Panthers, the Asian American Political Alliance and the Third World Liberation Front, a 1969 protest for more ethnic studies that involved the most violent strike to date at UC Berkeley and led then-Gov. Ronald Reagan to declare a state of emergency.
I guess that he was an informant. But for me the real problem with Rosenfeld's discussion of Aoki is its blurring the lines between informant and provocateur. You are clearly led to believe that Aoki was trying to entrap students even though only implicitly. I would have given anything to see what Aoki had to say about all this if he had lived.
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