J. Edgar Hoover

COINTELPRO Exposed - FBI's Secret War on Civil Rights and Dissent Revealed

1971-03-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole classified documents that exposed COINTELPRO—the FBI’s covert and illegal program to surveil, infiltrate, discredit, and disrupt American civil rights organizations and political …

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Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network

1953-02-09 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

In early 1953, Roy Cohn begins developing a systematic blackmail infrastructure during the McCarthy Senate hearings, leveraging anti-communist hysteria and homophobic tactics to gather compromising information on political and cultural figures. As 24-year-old chief counsel to Senator Joseph …

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