Not This Time

Delta 59: COINTELPRO Unmasked


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In December 1964, a trembling junior clerk at the FBI’s Philadelphia field office leaked a manila envelope that shattered America’s trust in its most revered law enforcement agency. Inside: surveillance logs, forged letters, and a photo of a wiretap hidden in a church cross—proof of a secret campaign to destroy civil rights leaders from within.

Co-In-Tel-Pro Unmasked traces the chain reaction that followed. From King’s Nobel speech in Oslo to Malcolm X’s near assassination, from riots that scorched the capital to Senate hearings that tried to hold the line—this is a timeline where the truth arrived too early, and left the country burning.

The exposure of Co-In-Tel-Pro broke the silence. But it also broke something else.

Would you undo it?

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Not This TimeBy The Archivist