Senate Church Committee, 1976: COINTELPRO was a set of secret FBI programs against domestic groups meant to "disrupt" and "neutralize" targets. It found many methods would be intolerable in a democracy even if all targets had been violent. A nonofficial copy of the report.
COINTELPRO is the FBI acronym for a series of covert action programs directed against domestic groups. In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action designed to “disrupt” and “neutralize” target groups and individuals.
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Senate Church Committee, 1976: COINTELPRO was a set of secret FBI programs against domestic groups meant to "disrupt" and "neutralize" targets. It found many methods would be intolerable in a democracy even if all targets had been violent. A nonofficial copy of the report.