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I'm not sure if it was just the targeted killings of key figures. In an insurrectionary movement you'd expect the opposite reaction (vengeance, or just more radicalization) for when key members are killed. At least that's what we've seen in the Niger Delta.

I cannot pretend knowing it all, but it seems that there were lighter, softer factors involved in the gradual collapse of the Black liberation movement in the '70s. Like the upward mobility of a part of the White radicals, happening at the same time than some militants were executed or exiled. The spread of cocaine, just like the spectacularization of the insurgency was also playing a part.