FBI VS. AFRICAN AMERICANS (BASED ON COINTELPRO PROGRAM DOCUMENTS)

Today we are witnessing how various US intelligence agencies engaged in espionage activities around the world. However, citizens have been subjected to most sophisticated methods of persecution history. Using example FBI's COINTELPRO program (carried out from 1956 1971), directed against activists African-American civil rights movement, article examines protect socio-political foundations American society, which cannot be called anything but segregational and racist. The author showed government influenced key figures movement USA, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X Black Panthers party through FBI program. consequences considered, including restrictions on liberties, trust institutional violation African Americans. relationship between latter phenomenon earlier phenomena discrimination "Colored People" United States, abolitionism segregation, is carried out. analyzes impact modern times, its reflection legal norms, counterintelligence measures public opinion about surveillance. study important for understanding complex society.