All Threads by Date  Cointelpro confidential informants.  I have
an interest in this subject so I listened to this interview with
Robert Merritt. I believe the story I'm about to post, but what
enrages me is how this once homosexual man takes his experience,
which might even be true, and extrapolates truth for all
homosexuals. Anyway, this guy, now 68, gay at the time, was
recruited for the US conintelpro operation started in the 1950s.
He was a confidential informant (CI), and used (amongst other
things) by the government to infiltrate the gay community in
order to entrap especially powerful men in order to blackmail,
therefore control them. During Watergate, undercover police
detective Carl Shoffler was his lover and roommate. The
Wilmington Dupont Hotel was one of the places he used to carry
out many his missions. I know for a fact that this stuff did and
does happen all the time's the oldest trick in the book. That's
how Hoover maintained his power, and often times, people in
power are intentionally set u