COINTELPRO

English

Noun

COINTELPRO

  1. Initialism of Counter-intelligence program.
    • 1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, FBI Counterintelligence Programs, page 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.
    • 1997, John Drabble, COINTELPRO-White Hate, the FBI, and the Cold War Political Consensus:
      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.
    • 2002, Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, page 37:
      The COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s were modeled on the successful programs of earlier years undertaken to disrupt the American Communist Party.
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