Cointel Pro and the Ku Klux Klan

Great leaders often have great flaws. Great villains can also have great qualities. Hoover saved the FBI when he became director in 1924 from endemic corruption at the young age of 29. Cointel Pro today is understood largely because it targeted a great man like Martin Luther King. But never forget, there was a Cointel program that helped to destroy some of the most loathsome people of the 20th century.