The FBI's Colento Pro Campaign Really Disrupted the Black Panthers

The FBI used a legion of informers, sometimes as provocateurs and close cop cooperation with local police anti radical squads. Cartoons attacking them purportedly from rival groups were distributed to aggravate antagonisms. Stories were planted with newspaper and television outlets to put the Panthers and their supporters in a bad light bogus messages were sent to cause riffs between the party and its white leftist supporters.