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Long Live the Spirits of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton!!!
Long Live the Legacy of the Black Panther Party!!!
M. Wesley Swearigen in FBI Secrets: An Agent’s Expose (1995)
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There is a lounge at the FBI National Academy which sells low-alcohol beer in the evening after classes, but no hard liquor. Gregg York and I had finished a few pitchers of beer one night as we discussed old times. I don’t recall just how the subject of the Black Panther Party came up. I may have started the conversation by comparing the work on the Los Angeles racial squad to the bag jobs Gregg and I had done in Chicago.
I told York that some agents in Los Angeles had informants who had assassinated Black Panther members and I told him how Geronimo Pratt had been framed for murder and had been sentenced to life in prison.
York grinned and said he had a better story than that.
York told me about the December 1969 raid on the…
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