45 Years After COINTELPRO, FBI Still Thinks ‘Dissent is the Enemy’
(COMMON DREAMS) Lauren McCauley, March 9, 2016 — Forty-five years ago on Tuesday, peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and unearthed documents exposing the government’s expansive COINTELPRO operations, which aimed to surveil, disrupt, and “neutralize” lawful activist groups, including war protesters, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the American Indian Movement, and the National Lawyers Guild.