The COINTELPRO war
Groundings
00:00
The Agent Provocateur
The FBI had a list of hundreds of people across the United States that they were monitoring, that they were watching. The agent provocateur goes beyond just spying on groups and getting that gathering information. They're actually doing things like, I could remember my young activism. We would have, sometimes, people come into our meetings and they would say, we just need to kill our white people. And there were a lot of groups that were infiltrated. In fact, we know now that in the Black Panther Party for self-defense, there was this guy who provided them guns, who wasn't Black.
Transcript
Play full episode
