America's Secret Police

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So, how did the freest nation of freedom in the free world develop what is essentially America's secret police in the form of COINTELPRO? It's actually quite the story that has a lot to do with hating immigrants, suppressing left-wing politics, hating immigrants, the red scare, AND hating immigrants.

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0:00 - Cold Open
0:32 - Intro
1:21 - Skillshare Sponsorship
2:47 - The Seeds of the FBI
5:48 - The General Intelligence Division
10:33 - J Edgar Hoover
11:52 - The FBI Goes Mainstream
13:06 - Counterintelligence and Anticommunism
15:07 - COINTELPRO
18:22 - The COINTELPRO papers leak
19:07 - Secret Police and States

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