Three former political activists have revealed their part in a brazen 1971 burglary of an FBI office outside Philadelphia, where they stole as many as 1,000 documents, enraging FBI director J. Edgar ...

In October 2017, a leaked memo entitled, “Black Identity Extremist Intelligent Assessment” revealed a government surveillance program targeting black activist liberation movements. Eddie Conway talks ...

OPINION: U.S. Rep. Bobby L. Rush makes the case for why federal agencies must publicly release all files related to J. Edgar Hoover’s racially-targeted COINTELPRO It was 1966 and the civil rights ...

On March 8, 1971 an anti-war activist group, the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania where they discovered a cache of classified documents, ...

In light of the Bush administration's secret eavedropping efforts, Farai Chideya takes an in-depth look at COINTELPRO. The 1960s-era federal surveillance program that targeted, among others, the Rev.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Rhodes feels as though his group has been mischaracterized by the liberal (and ...

The burglars who broke into an FBI office in 1971 and made off with tons of documents have come forward nearly forty years after their score helped expose J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's widespread ...

Congressman Bobby Rush introduced legislation yesterday that would disclose records from the Counterintelligence Program, known as COINTELPRO. The bill would establish both a COINTELPRO Records ...

For 15 years (1956-1971) the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ran a broad and highly coordinated domestic intelligence / counterintelligence program known as COINTELPRO (COunter INTELligence ...

The burglars who broke into an FBI office in 1971 and made off with tons of documents have come forward nearly forty years after their score helped expose J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau's widespread ...