COINTELPRO 101

Overview

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.

Top cast

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Liz Derias

Self / Narrator (voice)

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Bob Boyle

Self - Attorney

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Jose Lopez

Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center

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Lucy Rodriguez

Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner

Ward Churchill

Self - Native American Activist/Author

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Self - Native American Activist/Author

Leonard Peltier

Self - Political Prisoner

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Ricardo Romero

Self - Al Frente de Lucha; Greeley, CO

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Francísco "Kiko" Martinez

Self - Chicano/Mexicano Activist & Attorney

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Priscilla Falcon

Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado

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Muhammad Ahmad

Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM)

J. Edgar Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Kwame Ture

Self (archive footage)

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Akinyele Umoja

Self - Professor, African American Studies, Georgia State U.

Geronimo Pratt

Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner

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Laura Whitehorn

Self - Activist / Former Political Prisoner

Kathleen Cleaver

Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney

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M. Wesley Swearingen

Self - Former FBI Special Agent

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