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COINTELPRO

FILE DATE 1956
CROSS-REFS 07
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
The FBI's confirmed program to infiltrate and destroy dissent. Once, this was a 'theory.'
FULL DOSSIER
It stopped being a theory the night activists burglarized the Media, Pennsylvania field office in 1971 and mailed the files to newspapers. What the files showed: infiltration, forged letters, engineered feuds, a suicide letter to Dr. King. The FBI apologized, renamed things, and moved on. The lasting damage was epistemological — every activist group since has been correct, statistically, to wonder who in the room is writing reports.
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Church Committee, Book III
02Media, PA FBI documents (1971)
03FBI FOIA Vault: COINTELPRO
CROSS-REFERENCED FILES
MEMPHIS, 1968CHURCH COMMITTEEFBIGANG STALKINGZERSETZUNGOPERATION CHAOSHOOVER'S SECRET FILES
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