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COINTELPRO 101
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- Documentary
Overview
COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.
Keywords
- fbi
- cia
- police state
- police surveillance
- law enforcement
- intelligence agency
- activism
- social movement
- political prisoners
- cointel pro
- patriot act
- puerto rican history
- central intelligence agency (cia)
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 7, 2010
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Freedom Archives
- Cast
- Francísco "Kiko" Martinez,Malcolm X,Geronimo Pratt,Leonard Peltier,Kwame Ture,Ward Churchill,Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz,Frank Church,Filiberto Ojeda Ríos,Fred Hamptonand 15 more
- Writer
- Lincoln Bergman
- Music
- Camilo Landau
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt1753602