Cointelpro was a program ran but the CIA for the purpose of surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting subversive political organizations. By subversive they mean leftist basically. They targeted feminist organizations, communist parties, anti vietnam war organizers, Native American groups like AIM, environmentalists, animal rights groups, and anyone involved with the civil rights movment. Many of the tactics used in COINTELPRO are alleged to have seen continued use, including discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; illegal violence; and assassination. Beginning in 1969, Black Panther party leaders were targeted by the COINTELPRO and “neutralized” through tactics including assassination, imprisonment, public humiliation, and false criminal charges. Some of the Black Panthers targeted include Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Assata Shakur, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Marshall Conway. Common tactics used by COINTELPRO were perjury, witness harassment, witness intimidation, and withholding of exculpatory evidence.
This is all directly from the wiki and while it covers the basics there is so much more to COINTELPRO. The damage it has done to leftist organizing in America is immense.
Cointelpro was a program ran but the CIA for the purpose of surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting subversive political organizations. By subversive they mean leftist basically. They targeted feminist organizations, communist parties, anti vietnam war organizers, Native American groups like AIM, environmentalists, animal rights groups, and anyone involved with the civil rights movment. Many of the tactics used in COINTELPRO are alleged to have seen continued use, including discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; illegal violence; and assassination. Beginning in 1969, Black Panther party leaders were targeted by the COINTELPRO and “neutralized” through tactics including assassination, imprisonment, public humiliation, and false criminal charges. Some of the Black Panthers targeted include Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Assata Shakur, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Marshall Conway. Common tactics used by COINTELPRO were perjury, witness harassment, witness intimidation, and withholding of exculpatory evidence.
This is all directly from the wiki and while it covers the basics there is so much more to COINTELPRO. The damage it has done to leftist organizing in America is immense.