THE AI FILES / DRAWER 050BUREAU → TARGETS → CHURCH → THE ARCHIVE

A DRAWER. DOCUMENTED COVERT ACTION. ITS LESSONS.

The COINTELPRO
Files.

FBI Counterintelligence Program operations against domestic political targets — New Left, Black liberation, American Indian Movement, Socialist Workers, media framing, the Church Committee, and lessons for true conspiracies. Seven full deep guides live. Spine: Church Committee Book III and FBI Vault. Cross-links Covert Operations and Mississippi Sovereignty lessons. Not a claims board.

FBI COINTELPRO memo (Jean Seberg file) — documentary paper trail; public-domain U.S. government work via Wikimedia Commons.
FBI COINTELPRO memo (Jean Seberg file). FBI via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain.
7Full deep guides live
7Nest gateways
0Topics converting

COMBINED TIMELINE

All child timelines.
One graph.

Dated events merged from nest gateways and full guides inside this collection. Color marks the child topic. Click a point to open that guide’s timeline.

FULL GUIDES INSIDE THIS DRAWER

Folders in the drawer.
Full AI Files topics.

Each card opens a full illustrated guide (hubChild — not a homepage peer). Nest gateways under Case files keep permanent URLs.

OVERVIEW

Why this drawer.

Documented federal covert action against domestic political targets — and how to think about covert orgs without acronym inflation.

NARRATIVE

Programs → exposure → oversight

Five formal COINTELPRO captions (1956–1971), disruption techniques beyond collection, the 1971 Media PA disclosure, and the Church Committee’s Book III anatomy. Targets include New Left, Black liberation groups, AIM adjacency, and the Socialist Workers Party.

CASE GATEWAYS / NEST INDEX

Case gateways.
Full guides above first.

Permanent nest URLs. Each is a maintained-record gateway pointing at its full guide.

SOURCES & METHOD

What controls the spine.

Photographs & image credits