Surveillance Of MIT: From COINTELPRO to Chelsea Manning
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A brief overview of government surveillance of MIT, from COINTELPRO to Chelsea Manning
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- 1. Surveillance of MIT: From Cointelpro to Chelsea Manning Saul Tannenbaum @stannenb saultannenbaum.org
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- 3. COINTELPRO – Counterintelligence Program “The FBI began COINTELPRO in 1956 to disrupt the activities of the Communist Party of the United States. In the 1960s, it was expanded to include a number of other domestic groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Black Panther Party. All COINTELPRO operations were ended in 1971. … COINTELPRO was later rightfully criticized by Congress and the American people for abridging first amendment rights and for other reasons.” - vault.fbi.gov
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- 5. Some things don’t change “serious-mind young people … little time for outside activity” July, 1968
- 6. They read The Tech to discover “ringleaders”
- 7. Problem: MIT Humanities Dept. employing “radical-type” instructors June, 1969
- 8. Tangible Results Instructor’s “automatic” renewal of contract halted June 1969
- 9. “The Daily Reamer”: “not … sufficiently obnoxious to warrant” interference with advertising, except the NSA January 29, 1969
- 10. It’s not like harassment was a secret From The Tech October 31, 1967
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- 13. Wikileaks Timeline ✤ Early January 2010: Manning downloads Iraq/Afghan war logs ✤ Late January 2010: Manning visits Cambridge and MIT independent living group PIKA ✤ Early February 2010: Manning provides Wikileaks with war logs
- 14. MIT/Manning Connections Manning PGP key signed by Daniel Clark, PIKA resident
- 15. Manning/MIT Connections ✤ David House, then MIT researcher, founded Bradly Manning Support Network ✤ Laptop seized without warrant at the border ✤ Summoned before Wikileaks Grand Jury ✤ Wikileaks Grand Jury has subpoenaed one other unnamed “Cambridge resident” ✤ Wikileaks Grand Jury still sitting, investigation still open ✤ Wikileaks investigation seems pretty clearly to have used all the NSA “dragnet” techniques that have been disclosed
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- 17. How many hops away from a “terrorist” are you?