Co intel pro tupac biography

ByMarina Manoukian

From 1956 to 1971, the FBI amalgamated its illegal surveillance operations together under the title COINTELPRO.

While COINTELPRO was initially aimed at the Communist Party in the United States, it soon expanded its efforts to include civil rights activists, anti-war activists, Native activists, and New Left organizers.

Co intel pro tupac biography

But COINTELPRO's obsession with the Black Panther Party soon led to the murders and imprisonment of dozens of Black Panther Party members. Anyone who was "subversive" was ultimately targeted.

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Collaborating with Operation CHAOS along with state and local law enforcement, COINTELPRO gathered thousands of documents surveilling countless Americans.

Since so many of the documents that COINTELPRO was forced to relinquish were heavily redacted, there's still much to be known about their operations. Only around eight percent of their activity was legal, and the Ch