How do you react when you hear ideas that are completely different from your own?

It is easy to want to silence people we strongly disagree with. COINTELPRO shows what happens when that urge is backed by government power.

Next time you read an opinion you hate, try to understand why they hold it instead of wishing they would be silenced.

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The FBI ran a covert program called COINTELPRO from 1956 to 1971 to disrupt domestic political gr...

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COINTELPRO was exposed to the public in 1971 after activists broke into an FBI office and stole c...

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The FBI used illegal wiretaps, fake letters, and undercover agents to spark internal conflicts an...