American Memory
August 29, 2004
Ashcroft Defends Domestic Spying On Dissidents by John Tiffany
U.S. law enforcement has a history of infiltrating right-wing and left-wing groups that protest the government. The 1960s COINTELPRO program, run by the FBI, is perhaps the most well-known example of this, whereupon federal agents worked with local law enforcement to infiltrate groups for the purpose of disrupting, discrediting and otherwise neutralizing organizations and individuals.
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