Sundiata - What is CointelPro?

And today, y'all, we're going to be talking about COINTELPRO so we can kind of go back into it.

COINTELPRO basically was a secret organization or subunit within the FBI, which was kicked off under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover.

with the explicit goal of neutralizing the next potential black messiah but also people wanted to do social impact policies of social impact as far as um civil rights movements and things of that sort so it was primarily focused on black african people but it also ensnared puerto rican i actually have a list of people that were impacted white people but predominantly most of them were

And

there were adjacent programs as well, which you'll go to later.

Also, we just got to mention that.

But it started, I believe it was 1956.

I believe it was 1956.

And it was to suppress the Communist Party.

Right.

Again, anti what they thought was anti-American agitators or what have you.

And then later on, it quickly they moved on to black people.

But everything else is spot

on.

Absolutely.

OK. OK. Gosh, it was something I was I was about to say.

But, yeah, I think it'll be interesting to see, like, because.

what information you had at that time to corroborate the existence of content pro.

Cause obviously that leak happened where it was a movement of people.

Um, they actually raided the office, uh, and they actually pulled out unredacted files.

So this was never supposed to actually come out.

Um, and so those people, um, I can't think of their name.

I'm going to find them in my notes, but they basically raided one of the offices of the FBI.

Um, And they put it all out on Front Street.

And then obviously a series of Freedom of Information Acts came to be.

And today, y'all, we're going to be talking about COINTELPRO so we can kind of go back into it.

COINTELPRO basically was a secret organization or subunit within the FBI, which was kicked off under the leadership of J. Edgar Hoover.

with the explicit goal of neutralizing the next potential black messiah but also people wanted to do social impact policies of social impact as far as um civil rights movements and things of that sort so it was primarily focused on black african people but it also ensnared puerto rican i actually have a list of people that were impacted white people but predominantly most of them were

And

there were adjacent programs as well, which you'll go to later.

Also, we just got to mention that.

But it started, I believe it was 1956.

I believe it was 1956.

And it was to suppress the Communist Party.

Right.

Again, anti what they thought was anti-American agitators or what have you.

And then later on, it quickly they moved on to black people.

But everything else is spot

on.

Absolutely.

OK. OK. Gosh, it was something I was I was about to say.

But, yeah, I think it'll be interesting to see, like, because.

what information you had at that time to corroborate the existence of content pro.

Cause obviously that leak happened where it was a movement of people.

Um, they actually raided the office, uh, and they actually pulled out unredacted files.

So this was never supposed to actually come out.

Um, and so those people, um, I can't think of their name.

I'm going to find them in my notes, but they basically raided one of the offices of the FBI.

Um, And they put it all out on Front Street.

And then obviously a series of Freedom of Information Acts came to be.