SYMHC Classics: COINTELPRO 2
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Part two of this 2020 episode looks at some of the specifics of the COINTELPROs that targeted black liberation organizations and the New Left, as well as how these programs were finally exposed to the public.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.9 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.9 | Happy Saturday. |
| 0:08.3 | This is the second part of our two-part episode on Cointel Pro. |
| 0:12.6 | Part one, which ran last Saturday, includes lots of background on the FBI and its |
| 0:17.5 | counterintelligence programs. |
| 0:19.7 | Today's installment is focused on Co-Intel pros that targeted civil rights groups and the vaguely defined new left, |
| 0:26.6 | as well as the raid on the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania that brought these programs to light. |
| 0:32.6 | At the end of this episode, we mentioned that some of the people who were part of that raid |
| 0:37.6 | were also suspected as being part of the Camden 28, who broke into the Camden, New Jersey |
| 0:43.4 | draft board office and destroyed draft records there in 1971. We talked about the Camden |
| 0:50.7 | 28 and other Vietnam War era draft board raids in a two-parter that ran on April 7th and 9th, 2025. |
| 0:59.2 | This episode originally came out July 22nd, 2020. |
| 1:06.2 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:16.8 | Music Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 1:20.5 | And I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:21.8 | Today we are wrapping up our two-parter on Cointel Pro, including its targeting of so-called black nationalists |
| 1:30.2 | slash hate groups, and a targeting of a very vaguely defined movement known as the New Left |
| 1:36.6 | to briefly recap from Part 1, which is highly recommended before listening to this, because |
| 1:42.7 | it includes a lot of context and overview. |
| 1:46.2 | But just as a quick recap, we're going to quote from the Church Report, which followed more than a |
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