In that context one could bring up that Anarchism (essentially a form of LibSoc) was used by the FBI in COINTELPRO to disrupt existing socialist movements, but in all fairness that was probably primarily done bc it was the best way to promote leftist infighting. Though I wager the FBI would never “support” ML in the same way to disrupt anarchism, so part of it must have been that anarchism is less threatening to existing power structures.

Come on… that has been long proved as complete fake news. This was a proposal peddled by some low level operative and was immediately dismissed by the higher ups in the FBI as they full well knew this would never fly with anarchists and would be a waste of money (this is a documented fact).

The FBI rather went on and created/infiltrated local ML groups and due to the hierarchical structures that worked extremely well as no-one dared to question the FBI plants once they reached a high enough position.