Is It COINTELPRO All Over Again?
By AAN Staff
september 23, 2002 02:46 pm
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.