Definitions for "Cointelpro"
the FBI's 1960's era COunter INTELligence PROgram, an operation to disrupt and vitiate social justice organizations. COINTELPRO was officially ended after being exposed in 1971. However, COINTELPRO methods continued to be used against organizations working for social and environmental justice and against militarism and corporate globalization. There is evidently a multi-faceted COINTELPRO-type operation targeting the 9/11 truth movement in which real people and internet personas pretending to be 9/11 skeptics promote nonsensical ideas in order to discredit questioning of the official story.
COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO operations of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against organizations that were (at the time) considered to have politically radical elements, ranging from those whose stated goal was the violent overthrow of the U.S. government (such as the Weathermen); non-violent civil rights groups such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The founding document of COINTELPRO directed FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders.
Counterintelligence Program