COINTELPRO
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COINTELPRO (portmanteau derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.
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Notable people targeted
- Ralph Abernathy
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- James Baldwin
- Judi Bari, organizer, Earth First! & IWW Local #1
- H. Rap Brown
- Stokely Carmichael
- Bunchy Carter
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Jeff Fort
- Howard Bruce Franklin
- Fred Hampton
- Tom Hayden
- Ernest Hemingway
- Abbie Hoffman
- Erica Huggins
- Jose Cha Cha Jimenez
- Muhammad Kenyatta
- Clark Kerr, president of the University of California
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Stanley Levison
- Viola Liuzzo
- Malcolm X
- Huey P. Newton
- Filiberto Ojeda Ríos
- John Trudell
- Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley
- Jean Seberg
- Assata Shakur
- Morris Starsky
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See also
- 1971, 2014 documentary film on the break-in that first exposed COINTELPRO
- Active measures
- Agent provocateur
- All Power to the People, film documentary by Lee Lew-Lee 1996
- Milton William Cooper
- Cold war
- Denial and deception
- Mark Felt, also known as Deep Throat served as chief inspector of COINTELPRO field operations
- Electronic harassment
- FBI National Security Branch
- Joint Terrorism Task Force
- Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group
- Laird v. Tatum
- Mass surveillance in the United States
- MAINWAY, a database of telephone metadata used by the NSA
- NSA warrantless surveillance (2001–2007)
- Operation Mockingbird
- Patriot Act
- PROFUNC, a similar classified Canadian program which focused primarily on communists and crypt-communists
- Red Squad, police intelligence/anti-dissident units which were later operated under COINTELPRO
- Security
- State terrorism
- Surveillance abuse
- Thermcon
- Zersetzung
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