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The Argentine regime “disappeared” as many 22,000 leftists, unionists and insurgent militants during their reign. Immortal Technique alludes to “los desaparecidos” in his excellent account of Latin American history during US neo-imperialism.

The white scarf on the Plaza de Mayo commemorates los desaparecidos.

A “firm grasp” likely meant that de Hoz was a neoliberal capitalist economist, like the team sent in by Washington into neighboring Chile, following that country’s Washington-supported coup in 1973.

De Hoz enlisted members of Los Chicago Boys, a team of Latin American economists trained to be hardcore neoliberals at the University of Chicago under the tutelage of Milton Friedman.

That “aura” was, with the concerted effort of local field offices and Hoover, turned into the “shooting war” the FBI desired when, little more than a month later, Black Panthers Bunchy Carter and John Huggins were gunned down in a shootout on the UCLA campus.

The measures are revealed in subsequent communications from Los Angeles and San Diego field offices to Hoover. Two tactics prevailed: 1) Sending FBI-written direct communications to each group threatening violence by the sender, and 2) distributing throughout Southern California FBI-written anti-BPP and anti-US propaganda which would appear to be created by the rival groups.

Below is an FBI cartoon designed to provoke more violence in the wake of the January, 1969 shooting of Panthers Bunchy Carter and John Huggins on the UCLA campus.

Founded by Maulana Karenga and Hakim Jamal (Malcolm X’s cousin), the Black nationalist US organization became a rival of the Black Panther Party in California.

Maulana Karenga created the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa in 1966.

Likely a shot at Justin Timberlake, who took his beef with Kanye to “SNL” when he issued a subliminal at Kanye in his performance of “Suit and Tie.”

West has also been slated to perform on SNL on May 18th, but will not be in any skits. Traditionally, the musical act along with the host perform in 2-3 skits of the night.

FUCK your skits

The FBI had a long way to go to accomplish this aim. Just a month later, when Lil Bobby Hutton was killed by Oakland police, an open letter was printed in the New York Review of Books, in which among the dozens of signatories were prominent white liberals of letters, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, Gloria Steinem and Jane Jacobs.

Just a month after this memo was distributed, Bobby Hutton, the seventeen-year-old first recruit into the Black Panthers, was killed in a shootout with Oakland police. Bobby Seale, giving a press conference the next day, described the encounter with police as an “ambush” and that “Bobby Hutton had his hands in the air and was shot and murdered.” Seale described the shots fired by Panthers as self-defensive violence and evoked the King assassination from two days prior: “Our brother Martin Luther King exhausted all means of nonviolence.”

The PBS documentary A Huey Newton Story finds that “Bobby Hutton was shot more than twelve times after he had already surrendered and stripped down to his underwear to prove he was not armed.”

H. Rap Brown (aka Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, government name: Hubert Gerold Brown) served as the fiery chairman of SNCC. He aligned with the Black Panther Party for a short time as well. Al-Amin is currently serving out a life sentence for the conviction of killing a police officer in 2000.

Elijah Muhammed, leader of the Nation of Islam, was 71 at the time of this document’s writing.