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Richard Aoki 
Black Panther Party
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Aoki was friends with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, who founded the Black Panther Party, after they went to college together at Merritt College.
Aoki was one of many Asian-Americans in the Black Panther Party, but he was the only one with a leadership position.
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FBI
Richard Aoki was an informant for the FBI as a part of the COINTELPROGRAM. He filed reports on the activities of various organizations in the San Francisco Bay area for the FBI.
His position as an informant was revealed after a 2012 FOIA request by journalist Seth Rosenfeld to obtain FBI documents on Aoki, but he was revealed as an FBI informant in 1967.
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Military Career
Aoki joined the Army straight out of high school, serving for one year active duty and 7 years in the reserves.
During his time in the Army, he became a weapons expert.
In an interview, Aoki stated that he wanted to be a career soldier and wanted to be the very first Japanese-American general in the United States Army and work his way up through the ranks.
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