FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Lance Hill offers Hoover ’ s reaction, which was sent to the field offices of the Bureau in Louisiana: “ Because of the potential for violence indicated, you are instructed to immediately initiate an investigation of the DDJ for Defense and Justice .” As was eventually exposed in the late 1970s, under its COINTELPRO program, the FBI was involved in many illegal activities to spy on and undermine organizations it deemed “ a threat to the American way ”.

Most Weather members were not prosecuted or did not serve time in prison despite having been sought by the police for years ; police misconduct was the cause of many charges eventually being thrown out of court ( see: COINTELPRO ).

After the civil unrest during Johnson's administration, Watergate during Nixon's administration, and the public exposure of COINTELPRO by a dissident organization in 1971, widespread criticism of the Red Squads for illegal and undemocratic tactics emerged.

In 1987, Fort was tried and convicted for conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism by use of COINTELPRO type methods.

The countercultural movement was also under covert assault by J. Edgar Hoover's infamous " Counter Intelligence Program " ( COINTELPRO ), but in some countries it was other youth groups that were a threat.

At the trial in 1976, Kunstler subpoenaed prominent government officials to testify about the existence of a Counter-Intelligence Program ( COINTELPRO ) against Native American activists.

* COINTELPRO ( Counter Intelligence Program ), a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation that was aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.

Koen was the subject of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program ( COINTELPRO ), an infiltration program sanctioned by former FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover and President Richard M. Nixon against Black activist and activist groups in the 1960s and 1970s.

The two men had been targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO ( Counter Intelligence Program ), which operated against and infiltrated anti-war and Civil Rights groups, including the Omaha Black Panthers.

COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party, where Hoover went after targets that ranged from suspected everyday spies to larger celebrity figures such as Charlie Chaplin who were seen as spreading Communist Party propaganda, and later organizations such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr .' s Southern Christian Leadership Conference and others.

Shakur and others claim that she was targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO as a result of her involvement with these organizations.

" The writer and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Curt Gentry has noted that a similar story about Hall was planted in the media through the FBI's secret COINTELPRO campaign of disruption and disinformation against radical opposition groups.

* The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Counter-intelligence program " COINTELPRO ", was intended to, according to the FBI, " expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalists, hate-type organizations and groups, their leadership, membership, and supporters.

This operation was part of COINTELPRO.

The biggest example of this was how the US media greatly covered the Watergate Scandal but ignored the COINTELPRO exposures.

While the Watergate break-in was a political threat to powerful people ( Democrats ), COINTELPRO harmed average citizens and went as far as political assassination.

During the 1960s, Us became a target of the FBI COINTELPRO and was put on a series of lists describing it as dangerous, revolutionary and committed to armed struggle in the Black Power Movement.

It was passed in part as a response to the Supreme Court decisions Berger v. New York, 388 U. S. 41 ( 1967 ) and Katz v. United States, 389 U. S. 347 ( 1967 ), which the Church Committee Report on the FBI's COINTELPRO program described as holding " that the Fourth Amendment did apply to searches and seizures of conversations and protected all conversations of an individual as to which he had a reasonable expectation of privacy ".

Jeffrey Steinberg, LaRouche spokesperson and NCLC " director of counterintelligence ", described it as the " COINTELPRO memo ", which he says showed " that the FBI was considering supporting an assassination attempt against LaRouche by the Communist Party USA.

The group was a target of the COINTELPRO operation by the federal authorities but was also subject to diverse Red Squad activities of Michigan State Police and the Detroit Police Department, among other cities.

The book, which featured black men and children killing pigs dressed as police officers, was not actually made by the Black Panther Party, instead being made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's COINTELPRO program to discredit the organization.

The Black Panthers were opposed by the secret FBI operation COINTELPRO, and the party was referred to as " the greatest threat to the internal security of the country " by J. Edgar Hoover.

In 1975, in the wake of both the Watergate scandal and the exposure of COINTELPRO, the Church Committee was formed to investigate overstepping on the part of federal law inforcement and intelligence gathering agencies.

The FBI has used covert operations against domestic political groups since its inception ; however, covert operations under the official COINTELPRO label took place between 1956 and 1971.

At this time he formalized a covert " dirty tricks " program under the name COINTELPRO.

At this time he formalized a covert " dirty tricks " program under the name COINTELPRO.

COINTELPRO tactics have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare ; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media ; harassment ; wrongful imprisonment ; and illegal violence, including assassination.

In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church ( D-Idaho ), and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.

* Put him on an unauthorized list of people to be detained without judicial warrant in event of a national emergency, and designated him as a " Key Activist " whose political activities should be " disrupted " and " neutralized " under the bureau's illegal counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO.

* The CIA and FBI using illegal intelligence and intimidation methods through wiretaps and COINTELPRO.

COINTELPRO projects from 1956 — 1971 targeted various " subversive " organizations, including various peaceful anti-war, racial equality and civil rights groups including Martin Luther King Jr. and Albert Einstein.

One faction insisted that the U. S. government did not represent them in levying war in Southeast Asia, protesting the war, as well as undemocratic or oligarchial power-structures within U. S. society ; this faction occasionally saw repression from the government, such as through " dirty tricks " aimed at " subversives " by the FBI in COINTELPRO or hostility from other members of the American people who did support the U. S. government in that war.

Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton eventually fell out with each other over the necessity of armed struggle as a response to COINTELPRO and other actions by the government against the Black Panthers and other radical groups.

As the Panther leadership across the country began to be decimated by the impact of the FBI's COINTELPRO, Hampton's prominence in the national hierarchy

The rise of activist groups such as the American Indian Movement ( AIM ) worried the U. S. government ; the FBI responded both overtly and covertly ( by creating COINTELPRO and other programs ) to suppress possible uprisings among native peoples.

* COINTELPRO campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against civil rights activists in the US from 1956 to 1970.

In 2002, the Justice Department eliminated regulations put in place after the Church Commission hearings in the 1970s, which disclosed evidence of politically motivated spying and obstruction of first amendments rights by the FBI's COINTELPRO division.

* The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents From the FBI ’ s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall

According to arguments made by LaRouche's attorneys in later appeals, the government investigations were started under the FBI's COINTELPRO in the 1960s.

Most were believed to be growing pains, shaped also in part by the ongoing undercover work of the FBI's COINTELPRO.

By 1973, the Young Lords had been crippled and had all but been destroyed by the FBI's discreditations and divide-and-conquer tactics of COINTELPRO and other government investigative agencies.

In Chicago, the Young Lords resurfaced after two and a half years of being forced underground by repression from groups like the Gang Intelligence Unit, the Red Squad and COINTELPRO.

They later dropped the charges but, by the mid-1970s, the FBI's COINTELPRO program had effectively suppressed the organization.