Cointelpro's Illegal Acts
COINTELPRO's Illegal Acts and Its Illegal Relationship with the Local Police Forces
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COINTELPRO's Illegal Acts and Its Illegal Relationship with the Local Police Forces
COINTELPRO was a famous name that was used to mean the counterintelligence program that was carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the United States in the years 1960. The main aim of the program was to undermine and harass the political leaders who had come out to protest the issue of black people oppression in the country. During the 1960’s, the issue of race segregation based on skin color was so high such that the leaders had to come out strong and condemn the issue. Prior rising, the government of the then United …show more content…
Their main aim was to make sure that the movement did not gain the popularity it needed to bring changes regarding race respect in the United States of America. Through some of their activities, the FBI highly violated the basic human rights of the black people leaders who were spearheading the fight for race equality. Through the plans of the then FBI director, they used aggressive methods claiming that they were conducting investigations in regards to the political parties that were being formed during the 1960’s. The following were some of the illegal acts that were carried out by the FBI agents in regards to the COINTELPRO program in the United …show more content…
The FBI sent out some of its agents to spy on the black movement leaders so as to know all their moves. The agents in most cases used to work undercover in the movements so as to get the plans that they had in their due process of protesting the government’s acts. Whenever the black movement leaders made their plans, they could not succeed due to the spies that were sent to them by the FBI to report on their strategies. The main aim of the FBI was to disrupt and discredit all the activities of the Black Panther Movement in the United States. The FBI and the government of the United States of America knew that if they fully oppressed the leaders of the black movement, they would have demoralized the other common citizens in the country who were for the same ideas. Despite the infiltration, the FBI and the government were surprised that the movement continued becoming stronger since the leaders became more united after the illegal acts on them (Jeffries & Dyson,
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COINTELPRO's Illegal Acts and Its Illegal Relationship with the Local Police Forces
COINTELPRO was a famous name that was used to mean the counterintelligence program that was carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in the United States in the years 1960. The main aim of the program was to undermine and harass the political leaders who had come out to protest the issue of black people oppression in the country. During the 1960’s, the issue of race segregation based on skin color was so high such that the leaders had to come out strong and condemn the issue. Prior rising, the government of the then United …show more content…
Their main aim was to make sure that the movement did not gain the popularity it needed to bring changes regarding race respect in the United States of America. Through some of their activities, the FBI highly violated the basic human rights of the black people leaders who were spearheading the fight for race equality. Through the plans of the then FBI director, they used aggressive methods claiming that they were conducting investigations in regards to the political parties that were being formed during the 1960’s. The following were some of the illegal acts that were carried out by the FBI agents in regards to the COINTELPRO program in the United …show more content…
The FBI sent out some of its agents to spy on the black movement leaders so as to know all their moves. The agents in most cases used to work undercover in the movements so as to get the plans that they had in their due process of protesting the government’s acts. Whenever the black movement leaders made their plans, they could not succeed due to the spies that were sent to them by the FBI to report on their strategies. The main aim of the FBI was to disrupt and discredit all the activities of the Black Panther Movement in the United States. The FBI and the government of the United States of America knew that if they fully oppressed the leaders of the black movement, they would have demoralized the other common citizens in the country who were for the same ideas. Despite the infiltration, the FBI and the government were surprised that the movement continued becoming stronger since the leaders became more united after the illegal acts on them (Jeffries & Dyson,