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OldDem2012

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13. I would be tremendously surprised if the COINTELPRO list contains only 20,000 names....
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 04:50 PM
Jan 2013

...because they were active on nearly every major college campus, in addition to infiltrating any other domestic group they suspected.

Additionally, the FBI was not the only domestic LEO involved in domestic spying on, and infiltration of groups they suspected of engaging in un-American activities. Those groups, usually major city police departments, developed their own lists independent of COINTELPRO.

The Defense Department also conducted....and probably still conducts...domestic spying operations usually centered around military bases and military personnel and their interfaces with local suspect groups.

I'd be willing to bet COINTELPRO-type activities exploded after 9/11 to include surveillance of all forms of social media.

to the Man!

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