Family Jewels Pt 2: Meddling At Home (1975) w/ Rick Perlstein

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Our miniseries on the 1975/76 Church Committee findings on CIA and FBI operations continues. This episode, we look at what Americans learned with regards to COINTELPRO — domestic spying on people like MLK and John Lennon, as well as groups like the Black Panthers and KKK.

Be sure to check out the whole “Family Jewels” series, where we’re looking at Meddling Abroad, Meddling at Home, Meddling with Your Mind, and Meddling in the Press.

Our guest for this series is Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland, Reaganland, The Invisible Bridge, and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from
0:05.1	Radiotopia my name is Jody Avergan we are gonna get right into it
0:09.0	this is part two of our special series we are doing officially calling it family jewels about the
0:15.3	church committee hearings in 1975, 1976 which investigated and exposed a lot of shady
0:21.7	activity by the NSA, FBI, and CIA.
0:25.0	Last episode, we talked about meddling abroad.
0:28.0	This episode, we are going to talk about meddling at home,
0:31.0	which was largely known as Co-Intel Pro.
0:34.0	Here to, first, tell me what that stands for,
0:37.0	and then talk about the activities are,
0:39.0	our guests, as always for this,
0:41.0	Nicole Hammer of Columbia, and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.
0:44.3	Hello, there.
0:45.3	Hello Jody.
0:46.3	Hey there.
0:47.3	And back is Rick Perlstein, historian, journalist, author, Before the Storm, Nixonland,
0:51.7	the Invisible Bridge, Reagan Land, and more importantly,
0:54.6	ride along for the Family Jules.
0:56.8	Rick, thank you for joining us for part two.
0:59.4	Ride or die guys.
1:00.4	Ride or die, guys.
1:01.4	The NSA gets its hands on you, you never know.
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