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COINTELPRO: The Frustrated State (Chapter 1)

COINTELPRO: The Frustrated State (Chapter 1)

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The Fairshake Files opens the story of COINTELPRO: the secret, illegal domestic spying program run by the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover.

We reveal how the operation was created out of frustration with the Supreme Court's protection of free speech, leading Hoover to declare a secret war on dissent outside the law. This is American political history, surveillance, and true crime with deep context.

IN THIS EPISODE:
  • FDR's secret 1936 mandate to hunt the "fifth column" threat.
  • The shock of real spies: the Duquesne Spy Ring and high-level Soviet agent Harry Dexter White.
  • The Supreme Court's decisions (like Yates v. United States) that forced Hoover to illegally "neutralize" enemies.
SOURCES & CITATIONS
  • COINTELPRO Mandate
  • Duquesne Spy Ring
  • Yates v. United States


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