COMINFIL
COMINFIL stands for "Communist Infiltration" (in German: "Communist Infiltration") and was a political and police surveillance program in the United States of America during the Cold War .
meaning
Through the FBI's program , hundreds of thousands of police files were created by US citizens who were suspected of having or having had contact with at least one communist organization, even though the US Communist Party did not have more than 80,000 at the time Had members. During the first decade after World War II , 432,000 files are said to have been kept with the FBI alone.
The last demonstrable action in the context of this program took place during Martin Luther King's lifetime . Several attempts were made to publicly brand King as a communist with defamatory intent. The then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was responsible for executing orders in this matter .
Even the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the peace movement SANE and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) were verifiably on the so-called COMINFIL list.
literature
Klaus Steininger: CIA, FBI & Co. The cartel of the US secret services . Das Neue Berlin GmbH, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-360-01941-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b FBI: Just a super criminal investigation? Archived from the original on March 14, 2005 ; Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Supplementary detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans , BOOK III (from the final report of the Church Committee )