#COINTELPRO
8 entries tagged COINTELPRO.
People (5)
- 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.
- Martin Luther King Jr Martin Luther King Jr. was the preeminent leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Birmingham Campaign, and the 1963 March on Washington, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, was subjected to an extraordinary FBI surveillance and harassment campaign under COINTELPRO, and was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
- Stanley Levison Stanley Levison was a New York attorney and businessman who was one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest advisors and who had Communist Party USA ties in the early 1950s - providing the FBI's legal justification for wiretapping King and the SCLC beginning in 1962, despite the FBI's own evidence that Levison had severed his Communist Party ties before he became associated with King.
- William Sullivan William C. Sullivan was the FBI's Assistant Director for Domestic Intelligence who architected COINTELPRO, drafted the 1964 anonymous 'suicide letter' to Martin Luther King Jr., was fired by Hoover in 1971, and was shot in a ruled hunting accident on November 9, 1977, the day before he was to testify to congressional investigators.
Organizations (1)
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was the civil rights organization founded in 1957 with Martin Luther King Jr. as president that coordinated the major nonviolent direct action campaigns of the 1960s - the Birmingham Campaign, the March on Washington, the Selma-to-Montgomery marches - while being subjected to systematic FBI surveillance and COINTELPRO disruption operations.
Events (2)
- Church Committee The Church Committee (1975-1976) was the Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and HTLINGUAL illegal mail opening, producing S. Rept. 94-755, the foundational primary source for post-WWII U.S. intelligence oversight.
- Media FBI Office Break-In The Media, Pennsylvania FBI office break-in on March 8, 1971, by the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI removed approximately 1,000 documents whose distribution to the press exposed COINTELPRO and triggered Hoover's formal termination of the program.