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s'wallow, and that would tie together the information, this request was denied by the trial
insufficient material evidence in the case .
judge . Still, in both appellate courts it was ruled
All of the evidence and interviews of witnesses that this issue and the fact that one juror was a
and informants that tended to support police "volunteer" did not deprive Dhoruba of a
Dhoruba's innocence was withheld by the fair trial .
prosecutor and police . Dhoruba was not only It has become clear that the only way to secure
blocked from presenting evidence in his favor, Dhoruba's release and the release of other
but he was hampered principally from presenting Prisoners of Domestic War through the
the whole truth due to his underground political American courts is to expose Cointelpro . At the
activity, and the many people such a full heart of the Cointelpro program was a plan to
disclosure would expose to police terror .
assassinate or otherwise neutralize the leadership
Rather than betray the trust of the many that of the Black struggle . Through exposure of this
risked their lives in " the struggle, Dhoruba program it will be shown that the state
remained steadfast in not revealing the names of committed a host of illegal acts to deprive the
these people . But the Black movement and the leadership of the Black Liberation struggle of
white left, lacking a clear understanding of the their human rights .
government's repressive campaign, abandoned In late 1975, Dhoruba Moore filed a federal
Dhoruba. He was convicted of attempted murder and suit alleging a conspiracy on the part of the
given 25 years to life in prison . When the 10 federal, state, and local governments to deprive
whites and two Blacks announced their guilty Dhoruba of his civil rights . The state, however,
verdict, it was broadcast to every police unit in is not going to give up its information easily .
the 30,000-man New York Police Department, They know that in their files is information
for they had finally "got him" as they had which would expose Cointelpro for what it is .
promised .
Therefore it was only in the fall of 1978 that
With Dhoruba Moore's conviction, the Black Ohoruba received his first set of documents from
movement and white left unwittingly helped lay the' the FBI . These documents show that the state
foundation for all the B.L .A . convictions that manipulated and coerced witnesses at Dhoruba's
were to follow, especially in the New York area . trial and withheld material of an exculpatory
B.L .A . member s from Albert Washington and nature . Several other imprisoned leaders of the
Tony Bottoms, to Assata Shakur and Sundiata movement such as Assata Shakur, Geronimo
Acoli were all placed in the same political Pratt, and the RNA 11 have filed similar suits in
vulnerable condition that the Black movement the past few years . Through the "discovery"
and white left allowed in the case of Dhoruba process in all of these suits the consistent pattern
Moore . The Black movement, reeling from the and practice of Cointelpro begins to emerge . It
effects of Cointelpro repressive operations, and will be shown that all of the leaders of the Black
the white left deflated by the Vietnam War, were Liberation movement were the victims of an
not yet ready to see that a state of domestic war elaborate plan on the part of the U.S .
wasitoing waged within the borders of the U .S ., government - a plan which included
and that this war was called Cointelpro by the assassination, torture, and imprisonment .
government .
Much more information is needed to actually
prove this conspiracy in the courts . The
The Current Situation
government, through lies, "legal" delaying
Between 1973 and 1977, Dhoruba Moore tactics, and destruction of files is trying to block
appealed his conviction to the appellate courts in access to information . In order to secure the
New York State . Both times the appeals were release of Dhoruba and other Prisoners of
denied and both decisions ignored several glaring Domestic War much help is needed - politically,
examples of the state's frame-up during financially, and legally . If you would like to
Dhoruba's trial .
help, please send for more information at :
In one instance, a juror was found to possess a
copy of the book Target Blue, written by ex-
N .Y .C . Police Commissioner Robert Daley .
National Taskforce for Cointelpro
This book used speculation, innuendo, and
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fabrication, to chronicle Dhoruba's alleged
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participation in the shootings . The book was, in
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fact, serialized in New York magazine while
Dhoruba's case was still pending! When
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Dhoruba's attorneys sought to subpoena Daley
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to question him as to the source of his
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