COINTELPRO

Podcast Interview with Matt Dwyer, the Foul-Mouthed Ira Glass

Matt Dwyer interviews Will Potter about why the FBI is targeting anarchists and environmentalists as terrorists, but not Neo-Nazi groups.

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FBI File Reveals Discussion of Discrediting Animal Rights Activists by Planting Rumors

An FBI file reveals conversations between the FBI and an informant about how to disrupt political activism. The topics discussed echo COINTELPRO-era tactics of the 1960s.

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While the Government Continues Attacks on Activists, Animal Rights Groups Protest Each Other

In the 1960s, COINTELPRO was a sweeping government program to monitor, manipulate and disrupt progressive social movements in the United States, including antiwar activists, the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement and Martin Luther King. As part of COINTELPRO, the government created fake publications, placed anonymous calls, and forged letters from prominent activists. This was […]

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