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David Kaplan of California's Center for Investigative Reporting called COINTELPRO "the largest known program yet in domestic suverillance."

Kaplan observed that "between 1965 and 1975, the FBI opened more than 500,000 intelligence files on more than one million Americans, according to a Congressional report."

"Among the Bureau's targets: Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, anti-Vietnam War Groups, and the underground press."

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Audio testimony--National Citizens Review Commission on the FBI

Political Research Associates is creating a finding aid and online collection of short audio files from the testimony presented at the National Citizens Review Commission on the FBI held in Washington, DC in 1979.

PRA is in possession of the original reel-to-reel audiotapes of the testimony presented by group representatives and experts at the conference. The groups were asked to review their FBI files released under the federal Freedom of Information Act and various lawsuits.

Testimony was presented by the Black Panther Party, American Indian Movement, supporters of Karen Silkwood, Congress of African Peoples, United Slaves, residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation, Chicano activists, and antiwar and peace activists.

Materials distributed at this event are housed in the “Robert E. Robideau American Indian Movement Papers, 1975-1994” held by the University of New Mexico, University Libraries, Center for Southwest Research.