How Homeland Security has adopted the COINTELPRO playbook. COINTELPRO is back. The worst of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s dreadful operations, COINTELPRO included criminal attacks against Americans ...

OPINION: U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush makes the case for why federal agencies must publicly release all files related to J. Edgar Hoover’s racially-targeted COINTELPRO It was 1966 and the civil rights ...

Outraged by the Vietnam War, 20-year-old Keith Forsyth dropped out of college in Ohio and moved to Philadelphia to join the vigorous antiwar movement there. He took a lock-picking course so he could ...

On March 8, 1971 an anti-war activist group, the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania where they discovered a cache of classified documents, ...

For 15 years (1956-1971) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ran a broad and highly coordinated domestic intelligence / counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence ...

COINTELPRO was a government run, multi-million dollar covert operation whose goals were, in the FBI’s own language, to “ expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities ...

Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of the FBI, on Capitol Hill this month. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters) Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI, has a ...

COINTELPRO refers to the tactics used by the FBI to infiltrate, disrupt, and destroy activist groups. Moreover, Maino's remarks began with a touch of humor, as he jokingly commented on the name of one ...