"COINTELPRO" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} COINTELPRO
  1. Initialism of Counter-intelligence program. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Counter-intelligence program
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          "ref": "1981 December 27, Nancy Wechsler, quoting Linda Backiel, “Activists Jailed for Refusing To Cooperate with Grand Jury”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 3:",
          "text": "I think on the one hand they are doing a fishing expedition and trying to gather information, and on the other hand they are doing the much dirtier business of cointelpro — in terms of trying to discredit and destroy the opposition.",
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          "ref": "1997, John Drabble, COINTELPRO-White Hate, the FBI, and the Cold War Political Consensus:",
          "text": "Analyzing COINTELPRO-White Hate provided me with an opportunity to confront my own biases concerning the COINTELPRO operations conducted against the New Left after 1968.",
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          "ref": "2002, Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, page 37:",
          "text": "The COINTELPRO operations of the 1960s were modeled on the successful programs of earlier years undertaken to disrupt the American Communist Party.",
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