How did a group of 9 citizens expose the FBI’s biggest dirty secrets in a daring 1971 break-in? In the second of two parts, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli explore their secret plan, how the FBI tried to catch them, and what secrets the FBI was trying to keep from the public’s knowledge.
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Links for this episode:
- Exposing FBI Secrets! (Part 1)
- Betty Medsger’s book The Burglary
- Tim Weiner’s book Enemies: A History of the FBI
- Ronald Kessler’s book Secrets of the FBI
- Gary Noesner’s book Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator
- 1971 Documentary
- FBI
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI
- Fight of the Century
- COINTELPRO
- Church Committee
- Ebb Sleep website
- STOP-BANG website
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