On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:57:32 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
>
> I haven't followed this thread, so I don't know about this event
> specifically, but it has often happened that police killed their
> agents
> or each other. An amusing case in Detroit 30 some years ago. The
> cops
> raided a private poker game -- in which the participants happened to
> be
> police, who naturally shot back at what they thought were thugs
> breaking
> in, etc. etc.
>
> But I still tend to believe that the SLA was at its core police
> agents
> who got double-crossed by their masters and slaughtered to prevent
> exposure. And I believe that the Russian group who assassinated the
> Grand Duke consisted mostly of Czarist secret police, whose motive
> was
> to maintain a sufficient threat to justify their own existence. Cops
> are
> untrustworthy in all directions.
As I recall, the assasin of the Czarist prime minister, Pyotr Stolypin was said to have been a police spy who had infiltrated an anarchist group.
Jim F.
>
> Carrol
>
> Carrol
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