Episode 99: This week’s episode is about COINTELPRO, the secret, illegal spying and assassination program orchestrated by the FBI from 1956 to (technically) 1971, and the 1999 trail that established that the United States Government was likely part of a conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Sources

Complete Transcript of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination Conspiracy Trial, November 15 to December 8, 1999: https://bit.ly/3qpAhle

COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story: https://bit.ly/3szRgmA

Domestic terrorism: Notes on the state system of oppression: https://bit.ly/2N39wVc

Peter Bohmer, Faculty at Evergreen State College: https://bit.ly/3nQB9xI

The COINTELPRO Papers: https://bit.ly/3sqBkmG

“Character Assassins”: How the FBI Used the Issue of Homosexuality against the Black Freedom Struggle: https://bit.ly/35MVi1b

Berlet, Chip. "Re–framing dissent as criminal subversion." CovertAction Quarterly 41 (1992): 35-41.

Novick, Michael. Blue by Day, White by Night: Organized White Supremacist Groups in Law Enforcement Agencies. PART, 1991.

The King Trial: https://bit.ly/2XKugTZ