Episode 42
The FBI's Secret War on Its Own People
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- In 1956, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover launched COINTELPRO, a secret counterintelligence program targeting American citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panthers.
- Agents infiltrated meetings, forged letters to poison friendships, burgled offices, tapped phones, and read mail. The program ran fifteen years with zero public proof.
- In 1971, eight strangers broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every file, exposing the wiretaps, the smears, and an anonymous letter urging King to take his own life.
- COINTELPRO was shut down, but its playbook survived in declassified files.
The Draugr does not invent. He documents.
Episode 42 case file
The facts
- In 1956, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover launched COINTELPRO, a secret counterintelligence program targeting American citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Panthers.
- Agents infiltrated meetings, forged letters to poison friendships, burgled offices, tapped phones, and read mail. The program ran fifteen years with zero public proof.
- In 1971, eight strangers broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every file, exposing the wiretaps, the smears, and an anonymous letter urging King to take his own life.
- COINTELPRO was shut down, but its playbook survived in declassified files.
The evidence
- Agents infiltrated meetings, forged letters to poison friendships, burgled offices, tapped phones, and read mail. The program ran fifteen years with zero public proof.
- In 1971, eight strangers broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every file, exposing the wiretaps, the smears, and an anonymous letter urging King to take his own life.
- COINTELPRO was shut down, but its playbook survived in declassified files.
Sources
- Sources are being gathered for this file. The facts above are documented.
The words, as I spoke them.
Transcript
POV: Draugr first person
BEAT 1 For fifteen years, your own government read your mail and tapped your phone. Then it wrote a man a letter... urging him to kill himself. This is not a theory. It is a declassified file.
BEAT 2 Nineteen fifty six. J. Edgar Hoover launched COINTELPRO, a secret FBI war on its own people. Martin Luther King. The Black Panthers. Anyone who asked too many questions.
BEAT 3 Infiltrate the meetings. Forge letters to poison friendships. Burgle the offices. Fifteen years, zero proof. Until nineteen seventy one, when eight strangers broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania... and stole every file.
BEAT 4 The files proved it all. The wiretaps. The smears. The suicide letter. But here is what should freeze your blood. The program was shut down. The playbook never was. Who is being watched tonight?
BEAT 5 [WHISPER] The letter said: There is but one way out for you. You better take it, before your filthy, fraudulent self is bared to the nation.
BEAT 6 Stitch this video if you would open the file with YOUR name on it. Follow The Draugr for a new true nightmare every day. Sleep with the lights on, if you can.
Dramatized for the telling. The facts above are documented; the narration is the Draugr’s retelling of them.
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