COINTELPRO: a series of covert & illegal projects actively conducted by United States FBI aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, & disrupting domestic American political organizations.

by Paul Alexander

(1956–1971); read about this, thought quite interesting & wanted to share. Did you know about this? I wish to read more, I don't believe anything in Wiki but it's a start, biased & twisted as it is

COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal[1][2] projects actively conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations.[3][4] FBI records show COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals the FBI deemed subversive,[5] including feminist organizations,[6][7] the Communist Party USA,[8] anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights movement and Black Power movement (e.g. Martin Luther King Jr., the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party), environmentalist and animal rights organizations, the American Indian Movement (AIM), independence movements (including Puerto Rican independence groups such as the Young Lords and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party), a variety of organizations that were part of the broader New Left, and far-right groups such as the Ku Klux Klan[9] and the National States' Rights Party.[10]

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