COINTELPRO plot against 'Omaha Two' included a cadre of top FBI officials

Rosen was not on the special distribution list of the August 19th memo to Conrad but did receive the follow-up memo putting him in the conspirator's loop.  Rosen was Assistant Director in charge of the General Intelligence Division and acted as liaison to the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.  Rosen was another honorary pallbearer at Hoover's funeral.  In charge of investigating possible accomplices of Lee Harvey Oswald following President Kennedy's assassination, Rosen made no serious effort, later telling a U.S. Senate committee that investigating Oswald's associates was only an "ancillary matter."

Moore, whose signature appears on the August 22nd COINTELPRO memo about Larry Minard's murder, was Chief of the Racial Intelligence Section.  Moore, when asked about the illegality of COINTELPRO actions would later tell a U.S. Senate committee, "We never gave it a thought."

Ed Poindexter and Mondo we Langa, targets of the FBI plot to withhold evidence, were convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.  Both men remain in prison 38 years later at the maximum-security Nebraska State Penitentiary where they continue to deny any involvement in the crime.

Poindexter has a new trial request pending before the Nebraska Supreme Court over the withheld evidence and conflicting police testimony.  No date for a decision has been announced.

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