Papa’s said to be a rather prominent Black Panther.”It was an explosive allegation, and Seberg and her husband were shattered by it, sending Seberg into a downward spiral of depression. Each field office’s “Special Agent in Charge” (SAC) was expected to compile a description of all existing targets and key activists in each COINTELPRO program, then submit recommendations for counterintelligence activity to Hoover, who either authorized or rejected them.

N.p.Jalon, Allan M. “A Faulty Tip, a Ruined Life and Hindsight.” Ostrow, Ronald J. After Seberg’s death, all documents related to the program were declassified and made public, prompting then-Director William Webster to simply declare that such intimidation and harassment tactics were a thing of the past.“We are out of that business forever,” he told the Washington Post in 1980.Gossip columnist Joyce Haber died of liver and kidney failure in 1993 also refusing to apologize or even discuss the Seberg story, only saying that while she would never reveal the true source, it was not the FBI.David Halberstam, author of a 1979 book about the Los Angeles Times, media and politics titled “The Powers that Be,” claimed that the Seberg/Haber/FBI story was not at all about gossip, but about questionable political reporting. One of them is the formality. I didn’t think about it for more than five minutes.”Bellows recalled in the same 2002 story that Haber had already written the column on May 18 using Seberg’s name when he first saw the note, just prior to their 11:00 a.m. deadline. Gary claimed that Seberg "became psychotic" after the media reported a false story that the FBI planted about her becoming pregnant with a Black Panther's child in 1970.

Web Haber, Joyce. The result was the destruction of a fragile human being.”Bennet, Lorraine.

I will go where the work is. I was scared like a rabbit and it showed on the screen.

Thus the FBI initiated a concerted and secret campaign into her life by stalking her, tapping her phone and opening her mail.On February 23, 1970, a Black Panther informant dubbed “source 3” reported that a Panther member told Seberg that they “were broke and needed money.” Seberg then responded with a check for $2,500. “FBI Probe of Actress Jean Seberg Found More Extensive than Reported.” Wire services.

He claimed that an alarm went off as he read it. I'm not an expatriate. “One powerful institution manipulated another. That doesn't mean that I will stay here. Once Hoover approved, the LA field office sent anonymous letters to several Hollywood gossip columnists announcing the sleazy and untrue allegation.The only newspaper editor who took the bait was Los Angeles Times Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas, who said in 2009 that he received the false tip from an unknown reporter before passing it along to syndicated celebrity gossip columnist Joyce Haber.The tip read “Informant sez [sic] actress Jean Seberg is four months pregnant by Ray Hewitt, known as ‘Masai,’ and identified as present Black Panther minister of information. As a result of the stress of the situation, Seberg went into premature labor and, on August 23, 1970, gave birth to a 4-lb baby girl, Nina Hart Gary, who died two days later.
“I said to Joyce, ‘What the hell is that?’ I thought it was pretty strong.

United States Senate, April 23, 1976.This episodic film was originally a collaboration of five directors.
“FBI Admits Spreading Lies about Jean Seberg.” The file on Seberg also showed that the FBI funneled intel on her to the CIA, the FBI “legal attaches” at American embassies in Rome and Paris, to military intelligence units and to the Secret Service under the auspices of securing potential presidential security threats in the wake of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.Despite having her name removed as a potential threat to the president in 1969, on December 29, 1970, Seberg was reinstated to the list solely due to her monetary association with the Panthers.The real shit on Seberg hit the fan eight months earlier on April 21, 1970, when she was called on a tapped phone by Elaine Brown, a top leader in the Panthers, and Seberg admitted to her and to Masai Hewitt, another Panther leader, that she was four months pregnant. He also revealed that Seberg had attempted suicide almost every year on August 25 — the anniversary of the child’s death.Jean Seberg is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.The FBI never officially apologized to Seberg, her family or to any of the victims of their COINTELPRO program persecution. Romain Gary stated that Seberg had repeatedly attempted suicide on the anniversary of the child's death, August 25.Six days after the discovery of Seberg's body, the FBI released documents under Media attention surrounding the abuse Seberg had undergone at FBI hands led to examination of the case by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a.k.a. These activist organizations included not just communists but the Socialist Workers Party from 1961–69, white hate groups from 1964–71, the Puerto Rican independence movement from 1967–71 and the New Left student movement starting in 1968.Black Nationalist groups — especially the Black Panthers — found themselves in Hoover’s crosshairs starting in 1967.