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COINTELPRO (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal [1] [2] projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations that the FBI perceived as ...
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States is a book by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, first published in 1990. It is a history of the FBI's COINTELPRO efforts to disrupt dissident political organizations within the United States, and reproduces many original FBI memos.
COINTELPRO also aimed to dismantle the Black Panther Party by targeting their social/community programs, including its Free Breakfast for Children program, whose success had served to "shed light on the government's failure to address child poverty and hunger—pointing to the limits of the nation's War on Poverty". [78]
It was 1966 and the civil rights movement had been slowly building steam for more than a decade when the The post 55 years after Black Panther Party’s founding, FBI’s COINTELPRO files must be ...
From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2) National Public Radio story The Secret Burglary That Exposed J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, audio; January 7, 2014; The New York Times - Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows mini-documentary by Mark Mazzetti; January 7, 2014; Democracy Now! interviews:
The files were part of an FBI program called COINTELPRO. [124] After COINTELPRO was dissolved in 1971 by J. Edgar Hoover, [125] the FBI continued its counterintelligence on groups like the Weather Underground. In 1973, the FBI established the "Special Target Information Development" program, where agents were sent undercover to penetrate the ...
The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its ...
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