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Search the COINTELPRO archive

On March 8, 1971, an activist group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into a local FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and discovered evidence that the FBI had been conducting illegal domestic surveillance, infiltration, and disruption campaigns against civil rights and anti-war activist groups. Here you can search thousands of pages of original declassified FBI COINTELPRO records.