COINTELPRO
A Senate staff report, based on 20,000+ pages of Bureau documents, documents covert FBI action programs against domestic groups from 1956 to 1971.
United States · founded 1908 · US federal law-enforcement agency that also leads domestic counterintelligence.
Episode: CLASSIFIED — COMING SOON
Section: United States
Case files (3): Letelier–Moffitt car bombing · COINTELPRO covert action programs · Crossfire Hurricane FISA applications review
Leaks (1): ShinyHunters claim over FBI data
A Senate staff report, based on 20,000+ pages of Bureau documents, documents covert FBI action programs against domestic groups from 1956 to 1971.
The Justice Department Inspector General identified 17 significant inaccuracies and omissions in FBI applications to surveil Carter Page.
DOJ Inspector General: Horowitz statement on the FISA report ↗
The National Security Archive published newly declassified FBI records on the 1976 Washington car bombing, including an FBI interview of Henry Kissinger in 2000; the December 2000 FBI investigative summary remains withheld.
National Security Archive (GWU): The Letelier-Moffitt Case at 50 ↗
As reported by the National Catholic Register, the Justice Department released a report calling the FBI's 2023 Richmond memo a 'grave failure'; the FBI retracted the memo in 2023.