Man Who Armed Black Panther Party, Richard Aoki, Named as F.B.I. Snitch [Video]

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The man who provided The Black Panthers with their weapons was also an F.B.I. informant, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting:

Aoki’s work for the FBI, which has never been reported, was uncovered and verified during research for the book, “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power.” The book, based on research spanning three decades, will be published tomorrow by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

In a tape-recorded interview for the book in 2007, two years before he committed suicide, Aoki was asked if he had been an FBI informant. 

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