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country were arrested on
various charges arranging from murder, armed
robbery,
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rape, bank robbery to burglary .
A Black former agent-provacteur, admittedly employed by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1968 through 1975 to 'inform
on and observe the activities of the Black Panther Party,'
has stated in a sworn affidavit that the FBI plotted 'to eliminate
local and national leadership of the BPP during the
month of December, 1969' . 32
Roy Wilkins and Ramsey Clark in their book Search and Destroy : A
Report by the Commission of Inquiry into the Bl ack Panthers and the Police,
(Metropolitan Applied Research Center, Inc ., 1973), provides a detail account
of a police raid that was premeditated murder on December 4, 1969 .
Police, under the pretense of a weapons search, raided the Panther's apartment
in Chicago at 4 :45 a .m . pumping over 80 rounds into the bodies of
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, killing them and wounding four others .
tailed inventory of weapons and a
floor plan of the apartment had been
supplied to the FBI by an informant before the raid . The FBI give this
information to the local police conducting the raid .
the FBI .
According to a Black former agent provocateur who was employed for
A de-
The chief of the Los Angeles FBI office, Brandon Cleary, told him
that a Black agent-provocateur in Chicago put seco-barbital sleeping
powder in some kool-aid he knew Fred Hampton was going to
drink the night the 21-year old BPP leader was slain on December 4,
1969 . The seco-barbital had been given to him by his supervising
agent of the FBI . 33
31 Louis Heath, ed ., Off the Pigs .
Jersey, 1976, p . 33 .
Scarecrow Press, Inc ., Metuchen, New
32 "FBI Plotted to Eliminate BPP Leadership ." The Black Panther , Vol .
18, No . '3, (March il, 1978),'p . 1 .
33, FBI Plotted to Eliminate BPP Leadership," p . 1 .