FBI tracked Aretha Franklin for 40 years,
declassified documents show
New York Post,
by
Emily Crane
Original Article
Posted By: Black Conservative Voice,
10/6/2022 6:53:44 AM
Aretha Franklin was tracked by the FBI for 40 years as the agency repeatedly sought — but ultimately failed — to tie the Queen of Soul to “extremists” and “radicals,” newly declassified documents reveal.
The 270-page FBI file — obtained by Rolling Stone magazine — details how the feds spied on the “Respect” songstress through “false phone calls, surveillance, infiltration and highly-placed sources” from 1967 to 2007.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 10/6/2022 6:55:21 AM (No. 1296699)
American Stasi.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 10/6/2022 6:59:00 AM (No. 1296702)
Maybe some white extremists were fans of Aretha's music, and the Fudd Bureau of Instigation just had to make sure they wouldn't get out of control. Good grief.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/6/2022 7:22:16 AM (No. 1296712)
I think they are watching all of us
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
broken01 10/6/2022 7:24:55 AM (No. 1296715)
This is nothing new. The FSBI under the too long reign of John Edgar Hoover had dozens of Black public figures under surveillance. Most notably MLK and the NAACP, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. He also tracked the Beatles, Elvis and kept tabs on RFK and JFK especially with respect to their relations with Marylyn Monroe and the latter's affair with a mob boss's girl friend. Fast forward to today and how reckless the FSBI is being. It's like the 60s all over again.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 10/6/2022 7:30:16 AM (No. 1296718)
The FBI has degraded to an enforcement arm of the democrat party. A modern day gestapo. The reckless partisans in FBI management hire like minded field agents. That is why Sean Hannity’s theory is faulty.
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F(ix) the FBI.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 10/6/2022 9:54:49 AM (No. 1296831)
What the FBI did starting in the 50s against people like MLK and Arethra Franklin it is now doing to populist voices.
Threats to the lifestyles and lucrative processes of the Elite will not be tolerated.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 10/6/2022 10:29:28 AM (No. 1296869)
Nothing has changed the FBI has always been America's version of Germany's Gestapo or Russia's Stasi. Government's protection agency against the citizens. The FBI are not your friend or some upstanding law enforcement agency they are crooked gangsters.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cold porridge 10/6/2022 10:40:54 AM (No. 1296880)
" “pro-communist,” “hate America,” “radical,” “racial violence” and “militant black power.” Hmmm....that sounds like today's FBI
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldborezero 10/6/2022 10:57:05 AM (No. 1296899)
Using the movie “The Godfather” as reference, the DemonCommieRat party is Vito Corleone and the Feral Bastards of Instigation is Luca Brasi, Vito’s enforcer.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
coldborezero 10/6/2022 11:00:12 AM (No. 1296906)
Please forgive the second post, but I just want to say that a free republic cannot tolerate a Secret Police force in service to one political party.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/6/2022 11:14:16 AM (No. 1296921)
The left will use this to show how white Republican led government oppressed black America. Defund the FBI? Rebuild the FBI? The left has already done that. The FBI are now the left's personal police force.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/6/2022 12:42:35 PM (No. 1297021)
Really? The FBI does not track muslim extremists at all---but they know exactly where Trump is right now, hundreds of FBI agents assigned to the job, with direct, no waiting, access to Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/6/2022 3:54:19 PM (No. 1297193)
ReRe and her family were close to MLK. Makes sense to me.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn 10/6/2022 5:01:12 PM (No. 1297248)
FBLIE, a Criminal Organization looking for people to blame their incompetence on.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 10/6/2022 5:18:59 PM (No. 1297263)
To put things in perspective:
https://www.muckrock.com/project/subjects-matter-fbi-files-10/
I know nothing about this website. First I’ve seen or heard of it. But, it turned up when the question was searched about how many celebrities had been tracked during that same period of time that Aretha was tracked. There is quite a list of names from different fields. I haven’t checked them. This is just provided in case you might be interested.
It’s kind of interesting that this information about Aretha being tracked (until 2008) is coming out just before the election. Aretha had devoted fans of every race, skin color and background from all over the world. This old white woman was one of them.
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