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Is the ATS Conspiracy Forum COINTELPRO? part 1
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Transcript The 3 Amigos, co-owners of AboveTopSecret.com. From left to right: Skeptic Overlord, ATS Tech Wiz; Simon Gray, ATS founder; Springer, ATS Biz tycoon. What is ATS? ATS - AboveTopSecret.com is the largest conspiracy discussion forum on the Internet. ATS has nearly 60,000 registered members and over 2 million individual posts! What is COINTELPRO? From the 1920's to 1976, the FBI orchestrated a number of COunterINTELligence PROgram aimed at disrupting political dissidence. In 1976 the Church Committee investigated and documented the FBI's involvement in infiltrating the US Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. The FBI claims to have stopped all COINTELPRO activities in 1976…Conspiracy theorists disagree, claiming that other intelligence departments immediately began conducting COINTELPRO activities similar to the FBI's. Conspiracy theorists, being by nature paranoids often accuse the ATS forum itself of being a COINTELPRO operation. Such topics are common and usually appear every month or so without affecting the board in any substantial way. However, in August 2003 a series of cryptic posts by a mysterious member going by the handle WhispersInTheDark (WITD) sent the whole forum community in an uproar - almost triggering the end of ATS. On August 4th WITD posts:
16 hours later in Jakarta… Exactly as predicted by WITD! Had Whispers prophesized the Marriott Hotel Bombing? to be continued… You can visit AboveTopSecret at: http://www.abovetopsecret.com. Chris Lecours |
