[#323] THE GLASS HOUSE GAME: Louis E. Tackwood and the LAPD's Secret War on the Radical Black Left

Dimitri and Khalid crack open one of the most explosive - and memory-holed - exposés of the early 1970s: the taped confessions of LAPD agent provocateur and self-described “master of conspiracy” Louis E. Tackwood. Tackwood’s collaboration with the left-wing Citizens’ Research & Investigation Committee (CRIC) resulted in a co-authored book, THE GLASS HOUSE TAPES, in 1973. His allegations include: recruitment by the LAPD’s shadowy CCS squad after the Watts riots in 1965, framing the Black Muslims for stockpiling guns while making contact with/providing guns and money to Ron Karenga, the Black Nationalist leader of the US Organization, enabling Karenga’s murderous a...