This PDF file is an FBI directive distributed by letter dated August 25, 1967. In the letter 23 field offices were advised by of a new Counterintelligence Program (COINTERPRO) designed to neutralize militant black nationalists and prevent violence on their part. Goals of this program are to prevent the coalition of militant black nationalist groups, prevent the rise of a leader who might unify and electrify these violence-prone elements, prevent these militants from gaining respectability and prevent the growth of thse groups among America's youth.

COINTELPRO was broadly targeted against organizations that were (at the time) considered to have politically radical elements, including non-violent civil rights groups such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and African-American nationalist groups (including the Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam)