Lack of Extensive FBI File
Contemporary Civil Rights historians have long questioned why amongst all prominent Black Panther Party leaders, only Brown has no FBI file of any length, whilst files of other Panther leaders were frequently as long as twenty thousand pages. This is especially glaring as Brown was the Chairman of the Party for several years. Additionally, Brown was demonstrably the only Panther national leader never to have been extensively incarcerated or exiled. FBI informant Earl Anthony (who publicly confessed to being a paid FBI informant as early as 1970) asserted in his 1990s autobiography, that Jay Richard Kennedy was a highly placed CIA operative within the Civil Rights Movement, who in fact financed and inserted both Mr. Anthony and Ms. Brown, then close friends, into prominent positions within the "Black Power Movement," through his Civil Rights connections. In recent years, some Civil Rights Movement historians have pointed to Brown's drug arrest and release without charges (after bringing a quantity of cocaine into San Quentin prison) in 1975 as now being worthy of closer historical examination.
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