Ghetto Informant Program

[2] The order for GIP program came in a letter from Attorney General Ramsey Clark to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

[6] Informants monitored "Key Black Extremists" such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Floyd McKissick, Huey Newton, and more.

[7] One of the first major projects involving the GIP was Operation POCAM, the FBI's effort to monitor and disrupt the 1968 Poor People's Campaign.

[9] At least 67 informants were members of the Black Panther Party (BPP), tasked with spreading disinformation as well as sending reports to the FBI.

[11] In 1972, the FBI's Inspection Division began to express concern about using African-American informants specifically to investigate civil unrest.

Church Committee Report Book III, which reported some details on the Ghetto Informant Program