COINTELPRO
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Sep 12, 2026
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
Like, man, much and you get stuck out in the dark like, oh, man, stay to gather.
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
And you're under CIA Cointelpro surveillance.
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
Oh, man.
Gus T. RenegadeHOST
what they say sitting duck like you're out by yourself for all these hundreds of miles and at night some of the time and we got people under surveillance tracking you like oh my goodness it just chalk it up he had a you know bicycle accident and you know or lion got him you know he ran out of water and had a flat tire and all shucks uh let's see the five white american sea captain china wanted to colonize africa and to exterminate the negros i love that that's you know dear to my heart he said that the chinese hated all black people and that china was overcrowded sheepishly humbled his attitude in an innocent childlike manner he confessed that he thought that what he had read in the press were lies he was probably thinking this uppity negra has the nerve i'm sure that had to be it um negra negra i will say this is so common and i mean like right up to today like this is one of this is like hard-coded into the system of white supremacy you can go and say anything to a black person i've commented on this before but like man this and this annoys me so much like everybody can go talk to a black person I don't need any expertise I don't even have to know how to spell China if I'm talking to somebody classified as black as far as you are concerned I am a PhD scholar genius On what is it, Chena? Spell it with a K, Chena, whatever it is.
Shelly BrisbinPANELIST
The church committee of the Senate did a big expose on not only the CIA, but the FBI.
Shelly BrisbinPANELIST
That's where we found out about MKUltra and COINTELPRO and a CIA scandal called the Family Jewels.
Shelly BrisbinPANELIST
And all that stuff was out in the world.
Shelly BrisbinPANELIST
And there are some who actually think that this movie is a response to that.
Derf BackderfGUEST
in the usual ways.
Derf BackderfGUEST
It's a lot like COINTELPRO.
Derf BackderfGUEST
You know, a lot of it was behind the scenes.
Derf BackderfGUEST
They didn't, people didn't realize it was happening or suspected it was happening, but didn't know for sure.
Ben WiznerGUEST
So the massive scandals in the 1970s that that led to bipartisan hearings, led to the creation of the foreign intelligence surveillance court.
Ben WiznerGUEST
We found out about the CIA and FBI having millions of files on American citizens and COINTELPRO and infiltration of movements.
Ben WiznerGUEST
There was huge political energy for reform, and we got it.
Ben WiznerGUEST
Following Snowden, it wasn't just that judicial ruling, but Congress passed a law for the first time since the 1970s restricting rather than expanding surveillance authority.
Mike MooreHOST
This has been going on for a long time.
Mike MooreHOST
In 1956, the FBI launched COINTELPRO, Counterintelligence Program.
Mike MooreHOST
This was not just a surveillance operation, but an explicit campaign to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, and otherwise neutralize targeted groups.
Mike MooreHOST
Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., you name it.
Mike MooreHOST
just being bugged and not 100 fucking rounds fired into your bed.
Mike MooreHOST
It's a 21-year-old unarmed leader, civil rights leader.
Mike MooreHOST
1975, the Senate's Church Committee exposed COINTELPRO.
Mike MooreHOST
It concluded the FBI had run a sophisticated vigilante operation that systematically violated Citizens' First Amendment rights leading to strict new guidelines to limit domestic spying.
Mike MooreHOST
Civil rights leader.
Mike MooreHOST
1975, the Senate's Church Committee exposed COINTELPRO.
Mike MooreHOST
It concluded the FBI had run a sophisticated vigilante operation that systematically violated citizens' First Amendment rights, leading to strict new guidelines to limit domestic spying.
Mike MooreHOST
Oh, that didn't last long.
8 MINS LATER
Mike MooreHOST
Post 9-11 era, protecting the homeland from extremism.
Mike MooreHOST
Radicals.
Mike MooreHOST
In the 50s and 60s, In the 70s, they used COINTELPRO, covert disruption.
Mike MooreHOST
Post 9-11, COINTELPRO was made legal, and it's called the U.S. Patriot Act.
Ben WiznerGUEST
So the massive scandals in the 1970s that led to bipartisan hearings led to the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Ben WiznerGUEST
We found out about the CIA and FBI having millions of files on American citizens and COINTELPRO and infiltration of movements.
Ben WiznerGUEST
There was huge political energy for reform, and we got it.
Ben WiznerGUEST
Following Snowden, it wasn't just that judicial ruling, but Congress passed a law for the first time since the 1970s restricting rather than expanding surveillance authority.
RoGUEST
One word came to mind.
RoGUEST
COINTELPRO.
RoGUEST
Yeah.
RoGUEST
I was like, not you with the plants.
Ben WiznerGUEST
So the massive scandals in the 1970s that led to bipartisan hearings led to the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Ben WiznerGUEST
We found out about the CIA and FBI having millions of files on American citizens and COINTELPRO and infiltration of movements.
Ben WiznerGUEST
There was huge political energy for reform, and we got it.
Ben WiznerGUEST
Following Snowden, it wasn't just that judicial ruling, but Congress passed a law for the first time since the 1970s restricting rather than expanding surveillance authority.
Clay EdwardsHOST
They take the name of a 21-year-old Illinois Black Panther chairman who was killed in his bed during a 1969 Chicago police raid with FBI involvement.
Clay EdwardsHOST
That, according to Cointelpro on Wikipedia.
Clay EdwardsHOST
They are not the original Black Panthers.
Clay EdwardsHOST
They're a latter outfit that showed up at 2020-era protests with rifles claiming to provide security.
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