Blast from the Past - FBI internal info. on cointel from the 60s

[kalibex]

Women's Liberation Movement

The Bureau does not concur with your recommendations that a report on WLM activity within your division is not warranted at this time. The WLM has emerged as a loosely structured, but nevertheless nationwide feminine activist movement comprised of women with political opinions ranging from liberal to radical extremism. Interwoven with its goals for equal rights for women, is the advocation for militancy and violence in achieving these goals. ... In view of the above, it is absolutely essential that we conduct sufficient investigation to clearly establish subversive ramifications of the WLM and to determine the potential for violence presented by the various groups connected with this movement as well as any possible threat they may represent to the internal security of the United States.
-Director to SAC, Chicago, May 11, 1970

The youth-oriented, antiestablishment trend that, among other acts, spawned the chronic protesters and "street people" of the 1960s, did much to jeopardize established morals and diminish long-prevailing concepts of femininity. It also activated a more militant era of the feminist movement, stimulated by women from numerous radical and New Left groups. The object of this brief study is not the Women's Liberation Movement per se. Rather, the paper presents a penetrating look at the strategy and tactics being utilized by the SWP/YSA to influence and control the movement.(emphasis mine)
-Exploitation of Women's Movement by Socialist Workers Party, circa 1970


Hmmm... Well, it's not as if 'They've' succeeded in any of their aims to dilute the momentum of the Women's Liberation Movement since then...right...?

Right?

I mean, many women just decided they didn't 'need' that sort of consistent activism anymore.

Right?



http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointelpro/newleft.htm#womenslib
& thanks to Melinda who posted this over in GD.

[atommom]

1. It never ceases to amaze me how threatened some conservatives

were (and still are) by the protests of the 1960s. I think we're still experiencing a 40-year-old backlash. I wouldn't be surprised if conservatives undermined the movement ... I wouldn't even be surprised if they used the socialists as tools to further that end.