COINTELPRO 101

COINTELPRO 101 exposes illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the US government in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. “COINTELPRO” refers to the official FBI COunter INTELigence PROgram carried out to surveil, imprison, and eliminate leaders of social justice movements and to disrupt, divide, and destroy the movements as well. Many of the government's crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression and draws relevant lessons for the present and future.

Documentary

Liz Derias

(Self / Narrator (voice))

Bob Boyle

(Self - Attorney)

Jose Lopez

(Self - Puerto Rican Cultural Center)

Lucy Rodriguez

(Self - Puerto Rican Independentista / Former Political Prisoner)

Ward Churchill

(Self - Native American Activist/Author)

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

(Self - Native American Activist/Author)

Leonard Peltier

(Self - Political Prisoner)

Ricardo Romero

(Self - Al Frente de Lucha; Greeley, CO)

Francísco "Kiko" Martinez

(Self - Chicano/Mexicano Activist & Attorney)

Priscilla Falcon

(Self - Professor, Hispanic Studies, U. of Northern Colorado)

Muhammad Ahmad

(Self - Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM))

J. Edgar Hoover

(Self (archive footage))

Malcolm X

(Self (archive footage))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self (archive footage))

Kwame Ture

(Self (archive footage))

Akinyele Umoja

(Self - Professor, African American Studies, Georgia State U.)

Geronimo Pratt

(Self - Black Panther Party / Former Political Prisoner)

Laura Whitehorn

(Self - Activist / Former Political Prisoner)

Kathleen Cleaver

(Self - Black Panther Party/Attorney)

M. Wesley Swearingen

(Self - Former FBI Special Agent)

Fred Hampton

(Self (archive footage))

Frank Church

(Self (archive footage))

Mumia Abu-Jamal

(Self (archive footage))

Mutulu Shakur

(Self (archive footage))

Filiberto Ojeda Ríos

(Self (archive footage))