Martin Oppenheimer is professor emeritus of sociology, Rutgers
University. He is the author of The Sit-In Movement of 1960
(Brooklyn, NY, 1989) and most recently The Hate Handbook
(Latham, MD, 2005) 1. Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and
the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ.
Press, 1981) p. 298. 2. A cadre organization consists of members
who make a maximum commitment to the cause, often as full-time
workers, as distinct from a general membership organization
where the level of commitment by most members is minimal or
temporary. 3. Counterintelligence Program: "This program has as
its objective the neutralization of black extremist groups, the
prevention of violence by these groups and the prevention of
coalition of black extremist organizations." FBI Memorandum,
reprinted in Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of
Repression: The FBI’s Secret War Against the Black Panther Party
and the American Indian Movement (South End Press, 1988), p. 38.
Neutralization meant, according