#COINTELPRO
4 entries tagged COINTELPRO.
People (2)
- Fred Hampton Fred Hampton (1948-1969) was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, killed in a December 4, 1969, police raid whose FBI informant infiltrator provided the floor plan of Hampton's apartment in advance under COINTELPRO.
- J. Edgar Hoover J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served as FBI Director for 48 years, creating COINTELPRO in 1956 and maintaining secret files on political figures that sustained his institutional survival across eight presidential administrations.
Events (2)
- Church Committee The Church Committee (1975-1976) was a Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and illegal mail opening, producing the foundational primary source (S. Rept. 94-755) for post-WWII U.S. intelligence oversight.
- 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.