COINTELPRO
English
Noun
COINTELPRO
- Initialism of Counter-intelligence program.
- 1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, FBI Counterintelligence Programs, page 10:
- A fair, accurate and comprehensive understanding of the various COINTELPRO activities undertaken by the FBI is possible only in light of the context and climate in which the programs were established.
- 1997, John Drabble, COINTELPRO-White Hate, the FBI, and the Cold War Political Consensus:
- Analyzing COINTELPRO-White Hate provided me with an opportunity to confront my own biases concerning the COINTELPRO operations conducted against the New Left after 1968.
- 2002, Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, page 37:
- The COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s were modeled on the successful programs of earlier years undertaken to disrupt the American Communist Party.