COINTELPRO
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.
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What you’ll find
- Counterintelligence operations against domestic groups
- Surveillance of civil-rights and anti-war movements
- Field-office directives and disruption tactics
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