COINTELPRO: The War at Home - Ep. 27

10/19/06 • 54 min

What is COINTELPRO? Who’s watching you attend your local Quaker meeting or anti-war protest? Perhaps the hippy sitting next to you is an agent for the federal government? Find out in this episode, in which we discuss the FBI’s domestic counterintelligence program COINTELPRO. We talk about the FBI’s assault on the liberties of civil rights and anti-war activists in the 1960’s, and how it’s relevant to today.

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