FBI wiretaps the phone of Fred Hampton's Mom

Fred Hampton at rally in Chicago.  Photo (c) AP Images.

By February, 1968, Fred Hampton was emerging as a national figure in the Black Panthers.   The FBI and Co-Intel-Pro moved quickly to monitor his activities, including the wiretap placed on the phone of his mother, Iberia Hampton.

Later in 1968, Fred Hampton was assassinated.

Source:  Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement,  by Ward Churchill and Jim Van Der Wall.  South End Press (1990) p64.