11) FBI’s Counterintelligence Program
COINTELPRO was a series of illegal FBI projects that infiltrated domestic political organizations to silence some of the most ‘unwanted’ political groups in the U.S. Between the years of 1956 and 1971, the majority of the time spent on COINTELPRO was dedicate towards bringing down and dismantling groups such as black nationalists, civil rights movements, and women’s rights movements. The acts committed against them included psychological warfare, slander using forged documents and false reports in the media, harassment, wrongful imprisonment and, according to some, intimidation and possibly violence and assassination. Hate groups – such as the KKK – were targeted as well, but don’t seem to have been as much of a priority.
