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In thirteen pages this paper considers the tactics FBI counterintelligence employed in its infiltration of the U.S. civil rights movement and includes a statement of the problem, significant problem, and objective. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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internal covert campaigns the Federal Bureau of Investigation spearheaded under the authority of J. Edgar Hoover reportedly to protect American security from Communist threats. However, despite all of the
patriotic rhetoric, these actions ultimately endangered and seriously compromised the rights of American citizens far more than any so-called Communist groups ever did. 1. Statement of Problem: Following
World War II, the United States entered an era characterized by extreme paranoia that culminated into a Red Scare, the McCarthyism orchestrated by ambitious Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the
Cold War of competing ideologies between the communism of the Soviet Union and the democracy of the United States, the two nations that had emerged as superpowers following the war.
During this time period, an intensive FBI counterintelligence program was formulated that had originally sought to investigate and dismantle dissident group activities within America such as the Communist Party
USA. But by the mid 1960s, these programs were targeting any group with views that appeared to differ from the government sanctioned norms. The lingering question that remains
is How was this form of political oppression able to develop in America? Actually, this type of political oppression actually began years earlier and prior to the U.S. involvement
in World War II. The 1940 Smith Act criminalized any advocacy of "the overthrow of any government in the United States by force of violence" (Davis 31). A
young and zealous John Edgar Hoover had always been suspicious of any type of organizations involving African Americans (Sales 154). Early in his career, he was instrumental in discrediting
Marcus Garveys leadership and successfully destroyed the Universal Negro Improvement Association (Sales 154). During the Second World War, Hoover kept close tabs on any type of African American organization
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