Word: cointelpro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black Panther survivors of the COINTELPRO operation frame-up and murder what it means to be targeted as terrorist by the government. Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt, a Black Panther incarcerated for 15 years, for a murder he did not commit, is only now having his case reopened...
Former Crimson president John Simon is now, oddly enough, a professor at Yale Law School. In looking back, Simon says he considers the Crimson experience with the FBI "not out of character" with the series of 1975 revelations on counterintelligence programs (COINTELPRO), which revealed FBI pressure tactics in the Universities of Chicago and Arizona, among others...