Occupy This: Crazy Tom the FBI Provocateur

[Demeter]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8619-occupy-this-crazy-tom-the-fbi-provocateur

s weird as the 1960s became, Crazy Tom stood out. He set fires and started fights on the Stanford campus, supplied guns and explosives to fellow militants, and staged hold-ups "to support the Revolution." He also created a secret mountain-top training camp and bomb factory to groom would-be urban guerrillas, from young, mostly white Maoists to the secret Black Panther army trying to free Soledad Brother George Jackson from San Quentin Penitentiary. Then, in February and March 1971, Crazy Tom Mosher put on a suit and tie, brushed down his wispy blond hair, and testified in secret before the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security. According to his sworn testimony, the revolutionary terrorist had worked all along for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its state counterpart, the California Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification (CII).

In his testimony, Mosher warned of a growing campaign of revolutionary sabotage, terror, and guerrilla war, which had already left a trail of violence and murder across Northern California. The Senate published his tale at taxpayers' expense, while Reader's Digest ran a first-hand account of his experiences, "Inside the Revolutionary Left." As Mosher and the senators told it, he had been an informant, passively watching the illegal violence of the Left and reporting to the authorities to help them enforce the law. As those of us who knew him had seen for ourselves, he had created much of the terrorist violence he now condemned...

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[malthaussen]

1. Terrific Story

Full of irony, too. I especially liked how the polyamorous nudist colony turned into a guerilla camp -- thus making both love and war.

-- Mal

[Demeter]

2. kickety

[Arctic Dave]

3. Read my sig line. nt

[bemildred]

4. "Hey, let's throw rocks at the pigs!!!"

(Throws first rocks, misses, runs for cover.)

[Hotler]

5. Wow! k&r n/t

[txlibdem]

6. Lies, manipulations and police state shootings - how our Capitalist Masters keep us enslaved

Oh, and the occasional assassination (Martin Luther King, Malcom X, JFK perhaps)...

Thank you so much for posting this. We saw it in the London marches, we've seen it in various OWS encampments. The 1% never fails to use a situation to their benefit, even if it has to be trumped up or made up from whole cloth.