SYMHC Classics: COINTELPRO 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 14 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Part 1 of this 2020 two-parter covers background on the FBI and on the origins of its counterintelligence programs, as well as one specific operation, called COINTELPRO-White Hate.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.9	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.9	Hello and happy Saturday.
0:08.5	I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:09.8	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:11.3	Our next two Saturday classics are a listener request from a friend who is also a history teacher,
0:17.9	who noticed that she's been seeing a lot of references to Cointel Pro on social
0:22.9	media lately. We don't often run two-parters as Saturday classics, but our episodes on
0:29.2	Co-Intel Pro are not one continuous narrative. Part ones today, we will talk about some background
0:35.2	on the FBI and the origins of its counterintelligence programs,
0:39.5	as well as one specific operation, which was called Cointel Pro White Hate.
0:45.0	Then next week, Part 2 will cover two other Cointel pros and how the public learned about these programs.
0:52.4	These episodes are also an example of something we said in this week's behind the scenes
0:57.4	about not needing to go back very far in history to find precedence and things that resonate
1:02.7	with things that are happening now.
1:05.0	We recorded our episodes on Cointel Pro in July of 2020 during international protests
1:11.3	over the murder of George Floyd
1:12.9	by police officer Derek Chauvin.
1:15.7	This originally came out July 20th, 2020.
1:21.8	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class,
1:24.4	a production of IHeart Radio.
1:32.6	Thank you. in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast.
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