文档介绍：THE USE OF INFORMANTS IN FBI DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS Page 1 THE USE OF INFORMANTS IN FBI DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS Source:/~paulwolf/cointelpro/ SUPPLEMENTARY DETAILED STAFF REPORTS ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS _______ BOOK III _______ FINAL REPORTOF THE MITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES UNITED STATES SENATE APRIL 23 (under authority of the order of April 14), 1976 THE USE OF INFORMANTS IN FBI DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS Page 2 Video Icebreaker/ My Insert The Last Hours of William O'Neal: He was the informant who gave the FBI the floor plan of Fred Hampton's apartment. Last week he ran onto the Eisenhower Expressway and killed himself. Related RBG Tutorial 4Download, The Murder of Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. by Chicago Police and . View the Video THE USE OF INFORMANTS IN FBI DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATIONS Page 3 I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY The dangers to a free society that are implicit in the use of secret intelligence informers have long been recognized. In his Constitutional History of England, written in the mid-19th century, Sir Thomas May observed: Men may be without restraints upon their liberty; they may pass to and fro at pleasure: but if their steps aretracked by spies and informers, their words noted down for crimination, their associates watched as conspirators - -who shall say that they are free? 1 May pointed to the use of informers by "continental despotisms," noting that "the freedom of a country may be measured by its immunity from this baleful agency." 2 On the other hand, law enforcement officials see informants 3 as a highly effective technique --one justified by the public's interest in the detection of crime and the prosecution ofcriminals. FBI officials testified to the Committee that informants "provide one of the best and most complet