no way yochi was arming the black panthers well the f.b.i. creating violent situations as a way to justify battling the group this can be compared to the f.b.i.'s recent controversial use of informants with activist groups take the cleveland five for example the five men you see here the f.b.i. arrested these men for alleged conspiracy to blow up a bridge in cleveland but some believe it's the f.b.i. that infiltrated the group and encouraged the suspects to carry out the terror plot it's a slippery slope between the f.b.i. catching criminals and creating them to discuss this earlier i spoke to trevor aaronson author of the book the terror factory he told me about the cases of informants he uncovered while writing his book. as part of the book i looked at five hundred errors the prosecution since nine eleven and what i found is that an informant was used in acts of. you know in some cases an informant is used in the way you might suspect he simply provides information but in a lot of cases like an increasing number of cases the informant takes