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.

   • 1981 December 27, Nancy Wechsler, quoting Linda Backiel, “Activists Jailed for Refusing To Cooperate with Grand Jury”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 3:

     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.

   • 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.