On Monday, March 8, 1971, members of The Residents’ Fee to Examine the FBI broke into the federal government workplaces in Media, Pennsylvania with the intent of destroying draft playing cards. What they chanced on would expose the key and unlawful struggle waged by the FBI in opposition to political actions relationship again to the late Nineteen Forties. Reams of paperwork stamped with the identify COINTEPRO (CounterINTElligencePRogram) revealed the infiltration, set-up, gaslighting, snitch-jacketing, and elimination of political activists, union organizers, lecturers, and different members of society. 

The documentary movie 1971 tells the story of those courageous activists and the Church Committee hearings held in 1976 that supposedly put an finish to those additional and unlawful actions organized by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. 

In 2019, on the top of white nationalist and Nazi organizing in public and in clandestine cells, it was revealed that the FBI had created a brand new class for surveillance and infiltration: the “Black Identification Extremist” designation. This class can be the pretext for the infiltration and makes an attempt to destroy political actions but once more.

A brand new podcast from Western Sound and iHeartPodcasts updates the continuing unlawful actions of presidency businesses and brokers. The podcast “Alphabet Boys reveals the key investigations of the FBI, CIA, DEA, ATF, and different alphabet businesses. Hosted by journalist Trevor Aaronson, this podcast exposes secret undercover recordings that the federal government by no means needed you to listen to, together with the entrapment schemes federal brokers set as much as goal unsuspecting Individuals. We discover circumstances which can be each harmful and absurd whereas asking this query: Are America’s prime cops catching criminals — or creating them?

Advised as a single narrative over 10 episodes, season one in every of “Alphabet Boys” options entry to never-before-heard FBI undercover recordings and interviews with activists who had been the targets of the federal probe. The present additionally reveals for the primary time the id and sordid historical past of the controversial informant the FBI paid to spy on racial justice activists.”

Try this interview on Democracy Now! with podcast host Trevor Aaronson.