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~ , Aten 7 vt . ns . tog Ry a . * : .. . . “A <a * -* cord *Teae « . ‘Chicago: SunTimes, Monday, ‘October 20, 1980 Hoover anti- black. memos revealed | From Suns Times Wires . NEW YORK—Former FBI newspapers reported. - Director J. Edgar Hoover de- . The documents also show liberately set out to discredit’ the FBI tried to sever Jewish the Black Panther Party and support for the Black Panther black nationalist leaders, in- -Party by sending fake letters Cluding Stokely Carmichael. to people who attended a order” ‘the two” New York " and Angela Davis, by trying Parither fund-raiser. hosted by" to manipulate the news me- dia, published | reports said Sunday. ‘ se THE REPORTS, ‘appearing FBI's New York field office, ‘conductor Leénard Bernstein. : According to a Feb. 25, in The New York Times and . Hoover, who died in 1972, | ‘Said the letters should outline “the [party’s] anti- “Semitic . * the New York Daily News, ~ also said that: Hoover, in a series of memos during the - ‘ posture.” * late 1960s and early 1970s, directed his agents to discred- it black . nationalist sympa- thizers, including composer and conductor Leonard Bern- ” stein. The declassified memos were obtained recently under ends. “the Freedom of Information In «July, 1968, the FBI’s - Act by lawyers for Richard New York office claimed it + Moore, a former Black Pan- ther Party leader now serv-. 4 ‘ing 25 years to Hfe for the attempted murder of. two Po tice Officers; « - Moore, 36, is suing the FBI. former President Richard M. Nixon, former Attorney Gen-' , eral John Mitchel and other " officials, charging he was- ‘framed in the attack on: the ; police officers. ~ ELIZABETH FINK, one ‘of Moore's lawyers, said other memos from Hoover include | - one offering a $500 bonus to the police officer who killed . Panther leader Fred Hampton ‘in Chicago. Tn +. “We also have’ files taking 2 “credits for murders,” she | H added. - - ' | The documents show Hoo: | ‘ ver ordered the FBI to “‘ex- | pose, disrupt,‘ misdirect, dis- credit or otherwise neutralize’ the activities of black nation- alist organizations and groups,. their leadership, ‘spokesmen and supporters and to counter their propensi- ty for violence and civil dis- ot ope refused to comment. ACCORDING TO the memos, Hoover. directed his agents tod cultivate friend- ships with journalists who might help i in carrying out his jowing agencies in New York City: ABC-TV and Radio, -CBS-TV and Radio, WNEW- TV and Radio, WOR-TV and Radio, the Associated ‘Press, United - Press International Aatererat int an yt ante et Prem 4 epee eile HATE Eee Ne ah a vio 1970, Rlemorandyum --to ‘the . A spokesman for the FBI was “in daily contact" with black journalists at the fol-. and WINS radio, the newspa- | per reports. said. Almost ev- ‘|. ery name on the list of jour- ‘nalists was misspelled. y"Hoover’s orders to enlist the aid of local black journal- _ ists to help the campaign ap- ‘parently were unsuccessful, and some of the documents discuss futile attempts to con- tact reporter Earl Caldwell, a Daily News columnist who was working for the New - York Times at the time, - , Other journalists named in ~, ‘the documents denied having any’ contact -with the FBI, eee : . i rrr st ne Oa ne arama ret em ne mate Prt . + vm, aN et mw 5 eedetel 21a tir Sod