Noun
COINTELPRO
Initialism of Counter-intelligence program.
COINTELPRO actions included planting forged documents to create the suspicion that a key person was an FBI informer, spreading rumors through anonymous letters, leaking information to the press, calling for IRS audits, and the like. Source: Internet
David Cunningham, There’s Something Happening Here: the New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 35. The files were a part of an FBI program called Cointelpro. Source: Internet
Herst (2007), pp. 372–374 History Centralized operations under COINTELPRO officially began in August 1956 with a program designed to "increase factionalism, cause disruption and win defections" inside the Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA). Source: Internet
Of all the agency’s Nixon-era excesses, those undertaken as part of Hoover’s counterintelligence program, known as COINTELPRO, seem particularly villainous. Source: Internet
He sent a COINTELPRO memo to the field, warning that the Communist Party was seeking to infiltrate the movement." Source: Internet
In the letter, Waters explained her opposition, calling COINTELPRO "illegal, clandestine political persecution." Source: Internet