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Is It COINTELPRO All Over Again?

By AAN Staff
september 23, 2002  02:46 pm
Is It COINTELPRO All Over Again?
In 1956, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover created the Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) to infiltrate and cripple extremist political groups, such as the Black Panthers and other African-American political groups. In the Cleveland Free Times, Daniel Gray-Kontar looks at the renewed crackdown on African-American street organizations across the nation in the post Sept. 11 world and finds that many black leaders feel the new Patriot Act is the infamous COINTELRPO with a different name.