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FBI Infiltrates Black Power Groups
Fearful of violent revolution after the 1967 summer riots, the FBI expanded its long-running secret intelligence program COINTELPRO to suppress Black Power groups such as the Black Panthers. Starting in 1967, the FBI placed informants in nearly every Black Power group. Over the next four years, the FBI conducted hundreds of illegal operations, leaked damaging propaganda to journalists and stifled activists' First Amendment rights through harassment and imprisonment. |