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11 Oct 2008, 8:00 pm
The digitization of such designations has a lasting, generative power, far beyond the FBI files of the COINTELPRO era that could not be shared with the ease of today's networked computer systems. [read post]
12 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Now that the Coty case has been decided, one suspects we may see many more, similar cases on the weekly hand down lists in the very near future.From the COINTELPRO filesInteresting, timely history lesson from the Austin Chronicle about a time just a few decades ago when the American intelligence apparatus was turned on political dissidents, focusing on events at UT-Austin. [read post]
1 Feb 2018, 3:29 pm
And, at the pinnacle of our dietary suffering, worse even than sprout sandwiches or fruit leather or whole-wheat scones, there was carob, the chocolate substitute that never could.In the nineteen-seventies, carob infiltrated food co-ops and baking books as if it had been sent on a COINTELPRO mission to alienate the left’s next generation.... [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 1:59 pm by By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
Which civil rights leader was spied on by the FBI as part of its COINTELPRO program? [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 5:53 pm by Ruthann Robson
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law A new book, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 2:30 pm
 On March 4, 1968, a COINTELPRO memo described expanded COINTELPRO objectives and for the first time specifically named Dr. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 12:57 pm by Nadia Kayyali
COINTELPRO, short for Counter Intelligence Program, was started in 1956 by the FBI and continued until 1971. [read post]
25 Sep 2014, 2:42 pm by Nadia Kayyali
Watergate, COINTELPRO, the CIA’s manipulation of politics in Vietnam—none of these things would be common knowledge without courageous reporters, who were willing to publish stories on scandals that rocked the entire country. [read post]
13 Oct 2007, 5:03 pm
Concern with the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) center on Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a Black Panther Party leader convicted of a California robbery-muder in 1972, and Richard Marshall, an American Indian Movement leader convicted of a South Dakota barroom killing in 1976. [read post]
13 Nov 2017, 8:45 am
It lives on in the administration’s assessment of Black protesters as “Black identity extremists” and potential terrorists — a reprise of the FBI’s intrusive COINTELPRO program of decades ago — and in Trump’s denunciations of NFL players protesting racial injustice as un-American and worthy of punishment. [read post]
5 Apr 2014, 12:00 am
Both left and right are shadow boxing, creating an image of Islam as a dark peril that must be managed, and perhaps, extinguished.We've revived the very worst of the old COINTELPRO programs once used against the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King and the left, and inspired thousands of new federal intelligence agents and their informants to fan out across the country keeping track of who says what to whom, all in the service of policing dangerous thoughts.Stirring hatred of Islam is big… [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 10:00 am by Ben Wizner
One document referred without explanation to a program called “COINTELPRO. [read post]
17 Jan 2016, 9:17 am by Shahid Buttar
" What Congress had uncovered was known within U.S. intelligence agencies as the Counter-Intelligence Programs, or COINTELPRO. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 12:45 pm
In 1956, Hoover approved arguably the FBI’s most infamous and lawless program, known as COINTELPRO. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 2:18 pm by Amanda Simon, ACLU
The FBI's COINTELPRO program was a classic, as was the CIA's Operation Chaos. [read post]
23 May 2023, 3:09 pm by Ashley Belanger
" "The systemic misuse of this warrantless surveillance tool has made FISA 702 as toxic as COINTELPRO and the FBI abuses of the Hoover years," Laperruque said, while his group's press release noted that the court opinion "confirmed the worst fears of civil rights and civil liberties advocates.Read 30 remaining paragraphs | Comments [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 2:42 pm by Malkia Cyril
Ultimately, the Church Committee’s final report concluded that COINTELPRO was a dangerous program. [read post]
4 Dec 2019, 12:03 am by Steve Lubet
The agency’s infamous COINTELPRO, or counterintelligence program, tracked, spied on and used subterfuge against targets from the Rev. [read post]