Watch Ed Snowden's 1971 precursors discuss burglarizing the FBI - The Week
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The thieves were never caught, despite the efforts of some 200 FBI agents, and they didn't reveal themselves. Betty Medsger, a former Washington Post reporter who wrote the first article based on the leaked FBI documents, finally discovered the identities of the burglars, and she persuaded five of them to come forward in her new book, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, out this week.
The records revealed FBI efforts to spy on and infiltrate the antiwar movement and destroy it by sowing paranoia among its members. One document with the mysterious word "Cointelpro" led to the discovery of a dissent-quashing FBI program — dubbed the Counterintelligence Program — that stretched back to 1956 and included an effort to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into killing himself. "It wasn't just spying on Americans," Loch K. Johnson, a former aide to Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), tells The New York Times. "The intent of Cointelpro was to destroy lives and ruin reputations."
Nice Video in the link above.
The thieves were never caught, despite the efforts of some 200 FBI agents, and they didn't reveal themselves. Betty Medsger, a former Washington Post reporter who wrote the first article based on the leaked FBI documents, finally discovered the identities of the burglars, and she persuaded five of them to come forward in her new book, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, out this week.
The records revealed FBI efforts to spy on and infiltrate the antiwar movement and destroy it by sowing paranoia among its members. One document with the mysterious word "Cointelpro" led to the discovery of a dissent-quashing FBI program — dubbed the Counterintelligence Program — that stretched back to 1956 and included an effort to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into killing himself. "It wasn't just spying on Americans," Loch K. Johnson, a former aide to Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), tells The New York Times. "The intent of Cointelpro was to destroy lives and ruin reputations."
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