COINTELPRO

English Noun ? en Counter-intelligence program. en 1975 FBI Counterintelligence Programs United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary 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. en 27 Dec 81 9 23 Gay Community News 3 Nancy Wechsler Activists Jailed for Refusing To Cooperate with Grand Jury Linda Backiel I think on the one hand they are doing a fishing expedition and trying to gather information, and on the other hand they are doing the much dirtier business of cointelpro — in terms of trying to discredit and destroy the opposition. en 1997 COINTELPRO-White Hate, the FBI, and the Cold War Political Consensus John Drabble 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. en 2002 Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement Ward Churchill; Jim Vander Wall 37 The COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s were modeled on the successful programs of earlier years undertaken to disrupt the American Communist Party.