Church Committee: top 3 COINTELPRO activities

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6. Vietnam and Church spooked the spooks HARD, especially once Stansfield Turner was brought in

to clean house; the hardline agents and Pentagon officers became a constituency of their own, an interest group with weight, teaming up with the new think tanks to turn the Team B into a whole movement with a media presence

Brzezinski got Carter dicking around in Nicaragua and Afghanistan and he even launched proto-Reaganomics in response to the late-70s' stagflation--this isn't that Carter's to blame for Reagan, but that interventionism and the Chicago School had managed to take over all the alternatives presented to politicians