Between 1956 and 1971, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ran a counter-intelligence program against Americans. Not foreign agents — Americans. The targets were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the Students for a Democratic Society, the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and dozens of others. The methods included blackmail, forged letters, planted informants, and — in at least one documented case — collaboration in a killing. The program stayed secret until eight people walked into an FBI office in Pennsylvania on the night of a heavyweight title fight.
State & Intelligence Operations
1956-1971
