COINTELPRO
![Body of Fred Hampton, national spokesman for the Black Panther Party, who was murdered[38][39] by members of the Chicago Police Department, as part of a COINTELPRO operation.[40][41]](/uploads/202501/05/Fred_Hampton_dead_body3641.jpg)
COINTELPRO (a portmanteau derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations.