Underground events drew police undercover agents to the scene

Evidence

The Broadway Central hosted an event that Jack Smith called “Grass Busts of the Brassiere World,” at which Smith would be arrested for assaulting an undercover police officer. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 739

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Underground papers performed fake police interventions as participatory spectacle — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1179; Underground theater could trigger diplomatic and police suppression across international borders — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1968; Secret police provocation manufactured the resistance they claimed to suppress — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 948 (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Underground papers performed fake police interventions as participatory spectacle — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1179; Underground theater could trigger diplomatic and police suppression across international borders — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1968; Secret police provocation manufactured the resistance they claimed to suppress — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 948 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Secret police provocation manufactured the resistance they claimed to suppress #complicates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 948
• Secret police provoked revolutionary violence to justify their own existence #complicates (0.79)
• Undercover informants generate the very terrorism cases they then help solve. #complicates (0.76) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 47