Interviewer: You also were active in the infiltration of many cultural groups. Before we go into that step by step. How much research and study did the FBI engage in of black culture in the late 60's?
Darthard: A great amount
Interviewer: Give me an idea
Darthard: They have every type of magazine that blacks read. They have a file on the music, dance, theatre, actors, comedians you name it man.
Interviewer: And they would actually study these?
Darthard: Oh Yes
Interviewer: What would they do with music?
Darthard: To understand the people you have to understand the culture. To infiltrate you have to understand it. You have a lot of so call white liberals that we infiltrating the so call black groups using the information they had gathered from the studies from blacks. You know Will Heaton could name off jams of Miles Davis that I hadn't even heard of. He could name off some books I hadn't even read pertaining to black culture. I've seen them going over even video portion of cultural events. Okay you have a organization like "Leroy Jones Black House" you remember that? Okay Leroy Jones place which was done on the thing of tribalism. That's where I first heard the word Kintu, Montu, Hontu, Hantu these words of the African continuum. You know? I learned that from an agent. He ran it down to me. They make indepth studies of the personalities of the people their dealing with too culturally. It always helps. You can take their culture and use it againt them.
Interviewer: How large would you say and extensive of a collection on our culture would you say the FBI has? Would you rate it as large as a particular library like the Schomburg library in Harlem?"
Darthard: I would rate it better. I would rate it better in the fact is they go into details we probably would overlook. Will Heaton use to meet me in different places. There is a certian bar in the Los Angeles area where people into black cultural things met and Will Heaton use to meet me there. And he would go into long and tiring conversations with some very articulate brothas about culture, African culture & Afro American culture.
