Operation Chaos targeted American Indian Movement

Russell Means with U.S. negotiator Ken Frizzell of the Department of Justice and Oglala Lakota chief Tom Bad Cobb look on. (AP)

Operation Chaos targeted American Indian Movement 

Russell Means said Indian Nations are "living in the belly of the monster, and the monster is the United States."

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English and Dutch
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS at:
http://www.denaisgazet.be/nieuws/operatie-chaos-richtte-zijn-pijlen-op-de-american-indian-movement

In 1967 President Johnson created Operation Chaos to spy on the American Indian Movement, Black Panthers, student movements and anti-war movements.

The CIA operation gathered documents on 7,200 US citizens, tracking their contacts with so-called 'dissidents' in other countries.

Although a great deal has been exposed about COINTELPRO, very little has been written about Operation Chaos.

There is only one mention of Operation Chaos spying on the American Indian Movement in Wikileaks, and the document is not available online. 

However, other documents on the Internet reveal the purpose of Operation Chaos, a highly classified, secret intelligence project of the CIA. 

Agents targeted US activists interaction with people in other countries, stating they were suspicious that the unrest at home was coming from abroad. However, in the end, agents discovered there was plenty of unrest originating within the US, including the movement against the Vietnam War.

The agents were segregated from other CIA agents and the first targets were the Peace Movements and African American movements. Then, the American Indian Movement and occupiers of Wounded Knee were targeted. 

The report below reveals how the CIA exceeded its authority with domestic spying of Operation Chaos in the 60s and 70s.

http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockComm_Chap11_CHAOS.pdf

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Operation Chaos document with history: http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/rockcomm/pdf/RockComm_Chap11_CHAOS.pdf


AIM focus of US government spying prior to Wounded Knee

American Indians involved in the anti-war movement were targeted by spying during the 1960s and 1970s. The US carried out domestic operations, as revealed when the US targeted Buffy Sainte Marie. There were also foreign operations, which focused on AIM and travel to Europe.

During an interview at Dine' College, Buffy Sainte Marie said President Johnson put her out of the music business because of her stance against the Vietnam war and song, 'Universal Soldier.

The US cables reveal that the State Department was focused on spying on Russell Means.

The US State Department took notice and sent out a cable when Russell Means, Lakota, said a delegation to Eastern Europe planned to "ram the human rights issue down President Carter's throat." https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977STATE226024_c.html

Means promised to expose the genocide of American Indians in Europe and seek support for the ongoing "foreign occupation" in the US. The US was also concerned that the delegation to Europe in 1977 would use "Iroquois passports," according to the US spy cable.

One document in Wikileaks shows that after Wounded Knee, the American Indian Movement was planning an Indian Treaty Convention near Mobridge, South Dakota, in 1974. The US was concerned that Bolivia and Mexico would attend.

"The USG (United States government) would regard official participation in this event by any foreign government as inappropriate." The US continued to try and find out who was coming. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE101850_b.html

The US State Department was monitoring Russell Means, as shown below.
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977STATE237305_c.html

The American Indian Movement's relationship with Libya also created alarm and accusations in the US State Department, as revealed in the cables.

Earlier, in 1973, the Six Nations Iroquois Confederation engaged the UN and responded to the request from Wounded Knee to serve as peace mediators during the Wounded Knee occupation. 

These words ring true today as the mainstream media presents a biased version of the real story in Palestine.

In January of 1974, the US State Department became alarmed when Soviet journalists were planning to travel to Minneapolis. The US tracked them to see if they were there to cover the trial of those who occupied Wounded Knee. Once again, the US feared the American Indian Movement's ability to gain global support and contacts. The US also tracked unfavorable news coverage on Indian and human rights issues published in other countries. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1974STATE012511_b.html

                                                                               

One Wikileaks document is from Geneva in 1977, the statement on Discrimination and Indigenous Rights, which also refers to the sterilization of women without consent. The cables also show that the US tracked comments of Russell Means regarding the sterilization of Indian women in the US without their consent.

Read more about US spying on American Indians and First Nations at: http://indigenousresistancejuly2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/texas-spies-ponder-mohawks-stratfor.html

For permission to repost this article contact brendanorrell@gmail.com

Copyright Brenda Norrell

United Nations to hold COINTELPRO review in May under Human Rights Treaty

Black Panther Party, American Indian Movement and Vietnam War Protesters
were all targets of the US government's COINTELPRO

United Nations to hold COINTELPRO review in May under Human Rights Treaty

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Dutch translation by Alice Holemans, NAIS

The United Nations will review the United States government's COINTELPRO program that targeted the Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., and all protesters of the Vietnam War.

Among those voices against the Vietnam War was Buffy Sainte Marie. Buffy said she was blacklisted out of the music industry in the US because of her song, "Universal Soldier," and her stance against the Vietnam War. 

In a long-censored interview at Dine' College on the Navajo Nation, Buffy said that President Johnson played a key role in forcing radio stations to stop playing her songs. She said entire shipments of her records simply disappeared.
Operation Chaos also targeted AIM

COINTELPRO was not the only US operation that targeted the American Indian Movement.

Censored News discovered that in 1967 President Johnson created Operation Chaos to spy on the American Indian Movement, Black Panthers, student movements and anti-war movements.
The CIA operation gathered documents on 7,200 US citizens, tracking their contacts with so-called 'dissidents' in other countries.
Operation Chaos was a highly classified, secret intelligence project of the CIA, which targeted the American Indian Movement after the Occupation of Wounded Knee.

American Indians involved in the anti-war movement were targeted.

US cables reveal that the State Department was focused on spying on Russell Means.

The US State Department took notice and sent out a cable when Russell Means, Lakota, said a delegation to Eastern Europe planned to "ram the human rights issue down President Carter's throat." https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977STATE226024_c.html

Means promised to expose the genocide of American Indians in Europe and seek support for the ongoing "foreign occupation" in the US. The US was also concerned that the delegation to Europe in 1977 would use "Iroquois passports," according to the US spy cable.

One document in Wikileaks shows that after Wounded Knee, the American Indian Movement was planning an Indian Treaty Convention near Mobridge, South Dakota, in 1974. The US was concerned that Bolivia and Mexico would attend. "The USG (United States government) would regard official participation in this event by any foreign government as inappropriate." The US continued to try and find out who was coming. Read more at Censored News: http://indigenousresistancejuly2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/operation-chaos-targeted-american.html

Indian news website receives US spy contract

Now, even the American Indian media ownership is involved in spying for the United States. Recently, Ho-Chunk, Inc, in Nebraska, owners of the Indian news website www.indianz.com received a multi-million dollar spy contract for domestic and international spying, with an office at the Pentagon. Ho-Chunk Inc. already had separate contracts for services in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

Black Panthers begin focus at United Nations

In the upcoming review of COINTELPRO in Geneva by the United Nations, which begins in early May, two of Amnesty International's Prisoners of Conscience, Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa aka David Rice, are among those summoning justice. They were imprisoned because of convictions related to the Black Panther Party in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Examiner reports, "The United States Human Rights Network has announced that the United States will undergo a five-year Universal Periodic Review on May 11 of its compliance with human rights treaties to which the United States is a signatory. The issue of political prisoners from the COINTELPRO era has been put before the treaty review team.

Operation COINTELPRO was a clandestine and illegal counterintelligence program directed against political activists from 1956 to 1971, under J. Edgar Hoover’s close supervision. The 'Black Nationalist-Hate Groups' was the most vicious and lethal counterintelligence effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during that era."

Read the article in the Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/article/united-nations-to-hold-cointelpro-review-may-under-human-rights-treaty

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Amnesty International: Prisoners of Conscience
Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa aka David Rice
Black Panther Party Omaha, Nebraska

United Nations racism treaty forces Obama to explain COINTELPRO black political prisoners

By Mo Barns, Rolling Out

A United Nations treaty on racism, which the United States is a signatory, is being enforced against the Obama administration. The enforcement of the treaty deals with the details of black prisoners, especially in the 1960s. Under the FBI program COINTELPRO dozens of black political prisoners were incarcerated during the Civil Rights Era. In some cases, these prisoners were deliberately targeted by the FBI under instruction from Director J. Edgar Hoover. The UN report states “The Committee requests the State party to provide its next periodic report, detailed information on … The current status of political activists from the Civil Right Era who reportedly continue to be incarcerated.” The complaint was filed by an organization known as Jericho Movement, the organization has said that 19 Black Panthers remained in prison after unfair trials. An additional report to the UN committee from the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, indicated some prisoners whose situation needed urgent attention. The prisoners known included the Omaha Two, these prisoners are Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa aka David Rice.

Read the article in Rollingout: http://rollingout.com/politics/united-nations-racism-treaty-forces-obama-explain-black-political-prisoners/

Also see the Blacklisting of Buffy Sainte Marie by Brenda Norrell, Censored News:

The censoring of Buffy Sainte Marie by Indian Country Today played a pivotal role in the creation of Censored News nine years ago. Buffy was among the many activists censored by the editors of Indian Country Today while I was a staff writer there, which was the majority of the years between 1995 and 2006. After being censored repeatedly, then terminated by Indian Country Today, I created Censored News.

In her interview at Dine' College on the Navajo Nation, which was censored at the time by Indian Country Today, Buffy said that because of her song, 'Universal Soldier,' and her voice against the war in Vietnam, she was blacklisted out of the music industry in the US. She later learned that President Johnson played a key role in pressuring radio stations not to play her songs, and entire shipments of her records simply disappeared.

http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-blacklisting-of-buffy-sainte-marie.html

US Sterilization of Native American women:
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US government's sterilization of American Indian women: Jean Whitehorse, Dineh (Navajo) tells what happened to her. Video by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, at American Indian Movement's AIM West in San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26-QlIGhXcE