Seth Rosenfeld
Seth Rosenfeld is a reporter and author. He won the 2013 Ridenhour Prize for books Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power.
On August 20, 2012, Rosenfeld's report for the Center for Investigative Reporting alleged that Richard Aoki was an FBI informant who had infiltrated chapters of the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers' Party and, nearly from its inception, the Black Panther Party.[1] In response to a FOIA request by Rosenfeld, it was revealed that a November 16, 1967 FBI intelligence report listed Aoki as an informant with the code number "T-2". FBI agent Burney Threadgill Jr. also said that he worked with Aoki, stating, "He was my informant. I developed him."[2]
In The San Francisco Examiner in 1986, Rosenfeld broke the story of the ties of the Nicaraguan Contras, a group the Reagan administration supported, to cocaine smuggling.[3]
Bibliography
- Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. ISBN 9780374257002
- San Francisco Chronicle, "Trouble on campus" by Seth Rosenfeld, Chronicle Staff Writer, Sunday, June 9, 2002
- "60s Free Speech Leader got caught in FBI web," San Francisco Chronicle, 10 October 2004, p. A1
References
- ↑ Seth Rosenfeld (August 20, 2012). "Activist Richard Aoki named as informant". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ↑ Seth Rosenfeld, Center for Investigative Reporting (2012-08-20). "Activist Richard Aoki named as informant". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
- ↑ Webb, Gary (1999). Dark Alliance. Seven Stories Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-1-888363-93-7.