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To me this is  like saying FDR intended for Pearl Harbor to happen because FDR placed the Pacific Fleet at Pearl against the recommendation of its commanding officer.

These aren't the same thing at all. I'm talking about the way the CIA operated during the Cold War, starting with Alan Dulles.

Let's say John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State and brother of Alan, gets a phone call. Maybe it's from Winston Churchill who is hopping mad that the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, wants to nationalize British Petroleum's oil resources. Or maybe it's from his good friends at United Fruit, who are concerned about the democratically elected leader there, Jacobo Arbenz, nationalizing land UF owned. The call could be about Patrice Lumumba in Congo. Or maybe Henry Kissinger gets that call. It's ITT, upset about Salvador Allende in Chile because he wants to nationalize their assets. Removing that leader from power is the solution but how to go about this? The US needs to keep its hands clean so as to not be seen interfering in another country's affairs. The solution is finding someone or some group that shares some aspect of your goal. Perhaps there are military generals who'd love a shot at running things. If the generals turn you down, find a group of junior officers chafing under the leadership of those generals. Next, help those actors with a plan, with arms and logistical support--maybe an airstrike or two if that will help--and the promise that the US will recognize your government as legitimate if you succeed.

Domestically, the enemy of our enemy can similarly be a friend. Malcolm X became a threat after he took the Hajj, came back, and renounced the views of Elijah Muhammad. At that point, like MLK in his denunciation of the Vietnam War, he threatened a shift from solely advocating for Black folks to becoming a unifier of the civil rights and anti-war movements--the Black Messiah of Hoover's nightmares. So the FBI signed Ray on as their patsy; they assured that a Nation of Islam shooter would have a clear line of sight and a slow police response. They gave the Chicago PD the layout of Hampton's residence. Hoover spied on everyone in Washington it's true, which is why he was FBI director from 1924 until the day he died. He was a closeted gay man whose lover, Clyde Tolson, was also an FBI guy. But Hoover was mostly a virulent racist with a special kind of hatred for civil rights leaders and communists. He treated the KKK with kid gloves by comparison. Hoover wouldn't even admit the fucking mob existed until they outed themselves at Apalachin

That's what I'm saying. 

I'm assuming you meant to type "wasn't" in that last sentence?

I actually didn't know that COINTELPRO also had an anti-KKK operation. But that's kind of a microcosm of what we're talking about, where the positives of America's history can't be separated from the negatives.

It says something about the cultural zeitgeist of the time that the organization responsible for countless brutal murders, kidnappings, intimidation, and other white supremacist violence was treated with the same kind of disdain as the groups that were protesting that violence after being victims of it (Malcolm X's father, for example, was killed by the KKK.) because of using their first amendment rights to advocate for a different system of government in an ostensible democracy.