#1971
2 entries tagged 1971.
Programs (1)
- COINTELPRO COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a covert FBI domestic operations program (1956-1971) targeting political organizations through infiltration, psychological warfare, fabricated mail, wrongful prosecution, and coordination with local law enforcement, exposed by the 1971 Media FBI office break-in.
Events (1)
- Media FBI Office Break-In On March 8, 1971, a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into the FBI's resident agency in Media, Pennsylvania, and removed approximately 1,000 documents. Distribution of the stolen files to the press revealed the existence of COINTELPRO and triggered the formal termination of that program by J. Edgar Hoover. Betty Medsger's 2014 book 'The Burglary' is the primary journalistic account, based on interviews with the participants who came forward after the statute of limitations expired.