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COINTELPRO is back

How Homeland Security has adopted the COINTELPRO playbook. COINTELPRO is back. The worst of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s dreadful operations, COINTELPRO included criminal attacks against Americans ...
From 1956 to 1971, the FBI actively tried to subvert civil rights and New Left movements through often illegal means. Among its many targets were activist groups in North Texas. The name of the ...