that amounted to him saying that the FBI only needed to plant a seed of discord via COINTELPRO and then the Panthers did the rest of the work of dismantling the Party. that gave me the impression that the documentary was letting the Bureau off the hook.

>They paint him in a way that you almost forget the government
>was behind all of that mess that broke it up. AND they don't
>get into just how far the infiltration went. Did it involve
>drugs too?

hello. all i heard was the FBI sent some mail that couldn't be traced to the Bureau.

>I still dug the doc a lot and it just makes me want to learn
>more.

agreed...but it made me want to learn more in part b/c i felt like the doc was misrepresenting the Party's history. or at least it seemed to conflict w/the history as i know it. but i don't have particularly in-depth knowledge of the Party's history.