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COINTELPRO and tactics

It does say that a squad of COINTELPRO agents were sent to interview members of the Ku Klux Klan and that " many of them were big, bruising men, highly trained in the tactics of interrogation.

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.

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.

COINTELPRO and have

Some authors have charged that COINTELPRO methods also included inciting violence and arranging murders.

The U. S. has run numerous domestic intelligence, such as COINTELPRO, which have bugged the homes, offices, and vehicles of thousands of U. S. citizens, usually political activists, subversives, and criminals.

Legislative proceedings such as those that took place during the Church Committee, which investigated domestic intelligence programs such as COINTELPRO, have also weighed the pros and cons of surveillance.

COINTELPRO and been

According to Dennis King, Papert and Fraser had been targets of the FBI's COINTELPRO operatives.

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 ).

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.

At that time, the Omaha Police had claimed that it had been destroyed ; an FBI memo released after a Freedom of Information Act request demonstrates that the FBI's COINTELPRO program advised the Omaha authorities to suppress the tape.

COINTELPRO and alleged

Due to FBI abuses against Vietnam protestors and others during the COINTELPRO program, Rudd could not be convicted of many of the crimes alleged in the original government complaint against him that led to his fugitive status.

COINTELPRO and discrediting

COINTELPRO ( an acronym for Counterintelligence Program ) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

COINTELPRO and targets

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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.

Category: COINTELPRO targets

COINTELPRO and through

" 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.

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.

However, there evolved ideological differences that the FBI through its COINTELPRO began to increase and aggravate, leading to physical conflicts.

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

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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.

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 >

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.

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