[FYI] (Fwd) FC: FBI illegally harassed California students, faculty

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

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From:           	Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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    Secret FBI files reveal covert activities at UC
    Bureau's campus operations involved Reagan, CIA
    Seth Rosenfeld, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, June 9, 2002
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    Under the guise of protecting national security, the FBI conducted
    wide-ranging and unlawful intelligence operations concerning the
    University of California that at different points involved the
    head of the CIA and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan, The Chronicle has
    learned.

    According to thousands of pages of FBI records obtained by The
    Chronicle after a 17-year legal fight, the FBI unlawfully schemed
    with the head of the CIA to harass students, faculty and members
    of the Board of Regents, and mounted a concerted campaign to
    destroy the career of UC President Clark Kerr, which included
    sending the White House derogatory allegations about him that the
    bureau knew were false.

    The FBI, in contrast, developed a "close and cordial" relationship
    with Reagan, who made campus unrest a major issue and vowed to
    fire Kerr during his 1966 gubernatorial campaign.

    And after he was elected, the FBI failed to report that Reagan
    falsely stated on a federal security clearance form that he never
    had been a member of any group officially deemed subversive, an
    omission that could have been prosecuted as a felony.

    The FBI later secretly gave Gov. Reagan's administration
    information it could use "against" protesters.

    The disclosure of the FBI activities concerning the University of
    California during the 1950s and 1960s comes as the bureau has been
    granted wider authority and more resources to conduct domestic
    intelligence activities, and as President Bush seeks to create a
    new Department of Homeland Security.

    Experts said the FBI and CIA's past activities involving the
    University of California provide a cautionary tale about potential
    dangers to academic freedom and civil liberties.

    [...]




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