Fenian Notes

TIMOTHY McVeigh was scheduled to be executed on May 16, 2001 for 168 murders. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was responsible for the investigation of the crime.

The course they took was one of massive proportions because the public wanted the culprit(s) caught and tried without complication. There could not be any screw-ups.

We know now there was a massive screw-up concerning the McVeigh case. What does this suggest about their efforts in other cases of lesser priority? It suggests quite clearly that the FBI is not the law enforcement organisation it is touted to be.

What is the FBI? It was set in motion by one J Edgar Hoover as a federal police force. Hoover was interested in power and building the reputation of the FBI, “his bureau”. Hoover was the director, but he was more Hollywood director, stage-managing the progress of the FBI.

Hoover created a great image for an organisation, not a great organisation. He had Presidents and Congress and the deluded American people speaking with reverence and religious fervour regarding the deeds of the FBI.

In 2001, it has been revealed that the FBI G-men are more fiction than fact and more about propaganda and spinning a story that is better created in Hollywood. The FBI has always proceeded from a managed script. Its history reveals its dark side.

During the 1920s and 1930s organised crime began to flourish, but there were, in addition, individuals and gangs who roamed the country on crime sprees. They became famous and overshadowed the exploits of the FBI.

Director Hoover would not be overshadowed by gunmen stealing his thunder so he decided to pursue these modern-day cowboys one by one.

He had his agents single out criminals and put all the resources in that pursuit while doing so crime everywhere else would escalate.

Hoover had local law enforcement personnel do all the leg-work and then his agents would show up and shoot the target dead. The intent was not capture but premeditated murder.

The infamous gangster, John Dillinger, was set up and murdered by FBI agents. His movements were monitored. He was set up and killed execution-style.

A true above board law enforcement agency seeks to capture criminals not use them as target practice. Hoover and his Bureau were seen as conquering heroes not cold-blooded murderers. FBI activities began a pattern of cover-up which would proceed for decades.

Deep down Hoover was concerned that all his killings would be exposed so he came up with a plan of self-protection. He began a process that he would continue for the remainder of his life.

What Mr Hoover concocted was a system of secret files that he maintained in his office. He aimed high having his agents spend a considerable amount of their government time compiling records on the rich and famous and powerful.

He started with politicians who could help him or if they attempted to hurt him he would have things on them that could ruin them.

One of the first victims placed in Hoover’s secret files was Joseph P Kennedy, father of President John F Kennedy. Joe Kennedy had many liaisons with women other than his wife and Hoover built up files on him. He also kept track of Kennedy’s illegal enterprises and his association with organised crime.

Hoover’s sole concern during his life was maintaining personal power and keeping the FBI, his personal army strong. He built files on congressmen, senators, cabinet members and Presidents. No one was immune. Most of the powerful feared him and that was the way he wanted it.

Until his death in 1972 no one had the courage to tell him to step down. John Kennedy and his brother Robert toyed with the idea of deposing Hoover, but they were reminded of files on their indiscretions and cautioned by their own father about what Hoover could do to them should he chose to do so.

To suck up to certain Presidents Hoover let them know what he had on them. But he also did them favours. He played Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. The Presidents inwardly despised him, but outwardly were effusive in their praise.

Once in a while Hoover would have his agents jump in on criminal cases at the end when the grunt work was over and took credit and publicity for the bullwork efforts.

Hoover was never successful against the so-called “mafia” because they played his game. Hoover’s deep dark secret was he was a homosexual and a transvestite and the Mob had photographic evidence of the FBI director in drag. He went light on them.

Hoover hated John Kennedy so much there are theories he and the Mob assisted and planned the Kennedy hit. They both had reasons for wanting him dead. It is not as far-fetched as it might sound.

J Edgar Hoover needed a constant enemy to drive his efforts and he helped to create the “Red scare” of the 1940s and 1950s where the fiction was concocted that the Communists had infiltrated all aspects of US society.

Certainly, many so-called leftists were in the US government then as they are today, but the FBI with a campaign of innuendo and blatant lies set out to ruin lives of innocent people in order to maintain their campaign.

There was a group of people who fed the fears of the American people and had them watching others so as not to be accused themselves of being associated with Communists.

Who were these conspirators of anti-Communism? The main ones were the obvious J Edgar Hoover, Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Chairman of the Senate Committee that would hold hearings to accuse people of Communism.

AMERICANS like the movies and Hoover determined there was leftist Communist influence in the movies, so he needed a mole, some low-life who would turn on his own colleagues.

He found a willing subject who would help to create a blacklist of Hollywood people. That man was Ronald Reagan.

Yes, the same Reagan who would become President of the United States and friend and ally of Britain’s Margaret Thatcher in her war against Irish Republicans. Reagan and Hoover ruined the lives of any Hollywood types who did not play along with them.

Hoover’s files grew significantly by alleged Communists and their sympathisers. People were intimidated to turn in those who might seem suspicious. Everyone was on alert to dispel any suspicion from themselves. It was a nation of fear.

The Sixties brought civil rights demonstrations and the Afro-American leaders were branded as Communists or at a minimum they were sympathisers.

Martin Luther King, the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, was targeted by Hoover and lies were spun and rumours were regarded as fact.

Hoover and his FBI pursued the Civil Rights Movement as a Communist front. Hoover in addition to being a transvestite, he was also a bigot. Another group was slandered.

In the early Seventies Hoover and his FBI pursued the Anti-War Movement who of course were Communist. Hoover made the FBI a political police so his successors would carry on his brief. In political pursuits the FBI was good because they were out to ruin lives, but against real criminals, they were useless.

Hoover’s legacy still lives as the FBI political agenda continues and the screw-ups continue. In the 1970s, the Irish American community activists were lumped with other target groups and secret files were created on them.

A file in FBI parlance is initiated by many sources such as informers, incidents, the media and by mere whim. Activists will have a regular file and, in some instances, when they are suspected of being a potential long-range problem, they will be accorded a status warranting a secret file.

The regular file has reports of investigation as well as memos of opinion which range from half truths to outright lies. At intervals, false reports are slipped into regular files and the innocent become victims as they are reinvented as semi-criminals.

The FBI creates its own need to investigate political types that are considered annoying to an administration. The FBI, post-Hoover, does the bidding of all power sources that keep it in power.

Surreptitious break-ins, threats and intimidation and murder are their means for survival. When a law enforcement turns bad and utilises crime to maintain its existence it is far worse than organised crime.

The FBI perpetuates itself by high profile incidents that have public appeal. When they make others look bad, they look good.

They were charged with setting up Congressman Mario Biaggi because he was an advocate for the Irish. The order came to the FBI from the White House because Margaret Thatcher wanted him ruined politically and President Reagan was accommodating, but this is a fact we know. The secret files on Irish activists are still maintained ready for use. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, which gives the Bureau plenty of potential victims.

In 1963, the FBI did not fully investigate the bombing of a black church that killed four small girls. Instead they pursued Civil Rights leaders. It wasn’t until 2001 that these responsible were punished. This is a pattern of operation.

British agents operate in the US illegally, but instead of protecting citizens, the FBI goes after Irish activists, hence the pursuit of Biaggi.

We can expect further problems now that the “Real IRA” has been declared a foreign terrorist group. This is not a shot at one group; it is a shot for all the Irish. We are all threatened by this action.

The message is clear: if you support that group you will be monitored and if you advocate a policy against the “peace” process, you are suspect and an investigative file will be opened.

The Irish because they are law-abiding, but because many support true Republican they can be demonised. Black Civil Rights, Irish Freedom and Human Rights are good causes, but they went against the Establishment of the time. This warning should make us cautious not inactive.

The bottom line is, the FBI is by its practice an internal domestic terrorist group. In the McVeigh case, we need to observe that they manipulate evidence like they manipulate files.

Any American citizen has more to fear from the FBI than from US Civil Rights groups, Arab groups, Irish groups and others who seek merely to exercise their constitutional rights.

The FBI is out to stop the exercise of those rights by all means possible. They are the bad guys. We are the good guys. Do not permit anyone to demonise us, especially the demons.

In its history, the FBI has ignored and bungled investigations of real crimes while pursuing political activists and others who might gain them attention for budgetary purposes and self perpetuation. They count crimes, they do not solve them.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is a misnomer; it should be the Federal Bureau of Instigation because they create illegal activity by entrapping innocent people. They are a disgrace to law enforcement officers who do protect the people from true criminals.

We could go on and on about the criminal nature of the FBI, but it gets tedious. Remember this, they are the enforcement arm of the “peace” process in the US.

Compiling information on true Irish Republicans and those who might see the errors of their ways and abandon support for the British process.

The FBI does not care who they hurt or destroy. We need to hurt them by giving false information when questioned. Lead them astray.
-- Peadar Mac Fhínín