FBI agents provocateurs infiltrated AIM to foment violence and division

Evidence

Additionally, the FBI used paid informants to infiltrate the American Indian Movement throughout the 1970s. The AIM accused the FBI of using agents provocateurs to disrupt the movement, fomenting violence and division and suggesting illegal activities—that was one of the hallmarks of COINTELPRO. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Provocation-state-mechanism parallels FBI manufactured plots against Muslims and conscription-era framing of activist violence; tie to reader’s vault claims about manufactured-threat mechanisms. — connects to: The FBI ran COINTELPRO to sow distrust and undermine activist groups — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 153; FBI informants originate the terror plots they then expose and prosecute — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 598; FBI manufactured flimsy terrorist plots to parade as investigative successes (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• The FBI engineered inter-community hatred among American Muslims #corroborates (0.90) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 399
• FBI informants actively instigate the terror plots they are paid to foil #corroborates (0.90)
• FBI counterintelligence programs targeted civil rights activism as threats to national security #expands (0.88) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 392
• FBI informants originate the terror plots they then expose and prosecute #corroborates (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 598
• FBI informants exploit poverty and grief to entrap vulnerable men into fake plots #corroborates (0.85)
• FBI manufactured flimsy terrorist plots to parade as investigative successes #corroborates (0.82)
• FBI surveillance shifted from communist to black movement targets #expands (0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 184