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'''COINTELPRO''' (syllabic abbreviation derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations. | '''COINTELPRO''' (syllabic abbreviation derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations. | ||
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COINTELPRO&oldid=951447799 | + | [[Image:Cointelpro cats.png|thumbnail|300px|left|"foster factionalism and create suspicion within groups"]] The most frequent COINTELPRO operations were the use of wiretaps, anonymous letters, informants, and other means of subterfuge to, in the Bureau’s own words, foster factionalism and create suspicion within groups, bring individuals into disrepute before the American public, and create disruption and discord among such groups and movements in order to destroy the Left, or at least render it useless.<ref>https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/fbi-cointelpro-new-left-panthers-muslim-surveillance/</ref> |
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| + | The program included police assassinations ([[Huey Newton]]), trumped up charges, false accusations and convictions to jail activists for decades [[Leonard Peltier]], [[Mumia abu-Jamal]] and many others) | ||
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| + | Even if the program officially closed down in 1971, the tactics of COINTELPRO continued. The gang wars in the black slums in the 1980s and 1990s were fueled by the [[CIA/Drug trafficking|CIA/Contra drug imports]] and the police's active participation in encouraging the divisions in the black community{{cn}}. | ||
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| + | ==COINTELPRO 2.0== | ||
| + | The COINTELPRO tactics are still in use, by 2020 to combat “hate and extremist narratives" and [[conspiracy theories]], citizens spreading "foreign disinformation", [[anti-vaxxers]], Covid-deniers etc. | ||
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| + | A 2019 academic paper suggests fighting “hate” (unacceptable political speech) by inserting a “population in a pre-engineered format” within a targeted “hate-cluster” and destroying it from within. <ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1494-7</ref> | ||
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| Date | 1956 - 1971? |
| Perpetrators | FBI |
| Interest of | Ron Ridenour, Alex Rosen |
| Description | Series of covert and illegal projects aimed at subversion of 1960s left wing movements |
COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations. [1]
The most frequent COINTELPRO operations were the use of wiretaps, anonymous letters, informants, and other means of subterfuge to, in the Bureau’s own words, foster factionalism and create suspicion within groups, bring individuals into disrepute before the American public, and create disruption and discord among such groups and movements in order to destroy the Left, or at least render it useless.[2]
The program included police assassinations (Huey Newton), trumped up charges, false accusations and convictions to jail activists for decades Leonard Peltier, Mumia abu-Jamal and many others)
Even if the program officially closed down in 1971, the tactics of COINTELPRO continued. The gang wars in the black slums in the 1980s and 1990s were fueled by the CIA/Contra drug imports and the police's active participation in encouraging the divisions in the black community[citation needed].
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COINTELPRO 2.0
The COINTELPRO tactics are still in use, by 2020 to combat “hate and extremist narratives" and conspiracy theories, citizens spreading "foreign disinformation", anti-vaxxers, Covid-deniers etc.
A 2019 academic paper suggests fighting “hate” (unacceptable political speech) by inserting a “population in a pre-engineered format” within a targeted “hate-cluster” and destroying it from within. [3]
A COINTELPRO victim on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
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| Phil Ochs | The most political singer/songwriter against the war in Vietnam. Survived strangulation attack by "robber" that may have been CIA operation. |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:COINTELPRO Revisited - Spying & Disruption | article | Brian Glick |
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