Nointelpro
Article
June 21, 2002 (FTW) --
COINTELPRO, or Counter-Intelligence Program,
was a massive intelligence-based government operation turned
loose on the citizens of the U.S. during the 1960s and '70s.
In the late-'70s COINTELPRO operations, largely (but not
exclusively) coordinated from within the FBI, were thoroughly
exposed thanks to the work of the late Senator Frank Church
and many others. Tens of thousands of pages of FBI records,
as well as those from the CIA's sister operation, MH-CHAOS,
were entered into the congressional record detailing the
extent the power elites had gone to in order to control
public opinion and fragment opposition. At one point the
FBI alone had some 35,000 paid informants acting as spies,
provocateurs and disinformation agents throughout the American
left. Now, they're on both sides of that outdated intellectual
construct. MORE-> |
