Agents of Chaos Quotes

“On Monday, June 19 [1972], by a unanimous 8–0 decision, the Supreme Court finally upheld Judge Keith’s ruling, effectively outlawing most of the 'national security' wiretaps on 'domestic subversives.'
The close proximity in time between the June 19 ruling and another momentous incident, two nights earlier, is intriguing. Attorneys for the defense later theorized that there was an advance leak from somewhere in the court that the government was going to lose its case that Monday, and this was why five men had broken into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel on Saturday, June 17—they were sent in to remove previous taps.”
― Sean Howe, Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

“In a few instances, security informants in the New Left got carried away during a demonstration, assaulted police, etc.,” the FBI admitted in an internal report, but this was a gross understatement. FBI-supervised informants in Seattle also built bombs and provided them to anti-war activists.”
― Sean Howe, Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s