COINTELPRO and the killing of Fred Hampton

Chicago police, acting on FBI COINTELPRO intelligence, kill the 21-year-old Black Panther leader in his bed.

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COINTELPRO: The FBI's War on Black America
Hampton's killing is the starkest example of COINTELPRO's war on Black movements.
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Nixon declares the War on Drugs
The surveillance-and-criminalization logic of COINTELPRO carried directly into the War on Drugs two years later.

Hampton's killing is the starkest example of COINTELPRO's war on Black movements.

The surveillance-and-criminalization logic of COINTELPRO carried directly into the War on Drugs two years later.