COINTELPRO

The Black Panther Party was originally named the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. It was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton. The Black Panther Party was originally formed in order to police their own neighborhoods from the Oakland Police Department. They chose to police the police due to the police brutality that was going on in their neighborhoods. The Black Panther Party used the California law that permitted carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun as long as it was carried in the open and…

In 1996, Bobby Seale alongside Huey Newton became one of two co-founders of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) in Oakland, California. The FBI presented the group as a terrorist or hate group, and made part of the mission of the organization to destroy the BPP, even though the BPP was nowhere near being as violent a threat. In his book Seize the Time, Seale wrote of the group’s victories and downfalls, including how the FBI exaggerated the nefariousness of the group and deceived the…

COINTELPRO was formed in response to frustration at the supreme court limiting the powers of the justice department, and early divide that would fester and create animosity between the three main branches of the Federal Government. COINTELPRO also provided Hoover with a legitimate reason to pursue the discrediting of domestic political organisations, in particular those…

Negro in the future of this nation," Hoover used COINTELPRO to initiate around the clock surveillance on King, hoping to find evidence of communism or sexual deviance. Hoover used an illegal wiretap.He was convinced he had proof of King's infidelitous behavior, and attempted to push reporters into publicizing the recording. The media refused. Instead, Hoover sent the tape directly to King's office, suggesting he commit suicide or face exposure. COINTELPRO and its tactics remained a secret until…

suspecting the reasons of black militants who didn’t completely agree with the party's strategy or strategies. The FBI launched its COINTELPRO operations designed to stop "a coalition of militant black nationalist groups" and the rise of a "black messiah" "who might unify and electrify this violence-prone elements,” by doing this they were targeting the Panthers. “COINTELPRO up to the point of its official demise seems to aptly sum up the Bureau’s history and represents “one of the sordid…

J. Edgar Hoover was an intelligent man that used manipulation to his advantage and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to what it is today. Hoover worked for eight United States presidents and served as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years. Prior to the Federal Bureau of Investigation being under the jurisdiction of J. Edgar Hoover it was named the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Several members of the Secret Service were hired to become the first agents of the…

surveillance tools to monitor citizens’ activities. During the Cold War, the FBI ran a domestic counterintelligence program called COINTELPRO protect the national security from hostile foreign threats; however, the program evolved into an effort to suppress non-violent protest groups and political dissidents with an array of illegal activities (Hutchinson). COINTELPRO negatively influenced the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. After the attacks of 9/11, the government has been again…

Cointelpro is at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations. After he found out what the protesters were up to they arrested them without legal cause. After people found out thats the government use there security…

specifically to facilitate federal/local cooperation in ‘containing’ the black liberation movement. “Hence, although many anti-Panther actions around the country appealed to be purely local police initiatives, most were actually coordinated by the FBI’s COINTELPRO operatives in each locality.” Though the effectiveness of state repression programs are difficult to evaluate and measure, in September 1969 alone, police across the nation arrested Panthers on 46 separate occasions, with at least 348…

others. However, as the frequency of threats to U.S. national security has increased since the late 1700s, the balance between privacy and security has become ever more volatile (Soma et al. 285). For instance, during the 1940s and 1950s, the FBI ran COINTELPRO to implemented widespread surveillance on Americans by using…