COINTELPRO was the FBI’s covert counterintelligence program (1956–1971) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, and disrupting domestic political organizations — civil-rights groups, anti-war activists, and others. Exposed in 1971, its records were later released under FOIA.

Search the declassified COINTELPRO files below.

What you’ll find

• Counterintelligence operations against domestic groups
• Surveillance of civil-rights and anti-war movements
• Field-office directives and disruption tactics