The Government Watched as the Poor Prepared to Occupy Washington
In the weeks following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, the U.S. government ramped up its internal surveillance and threat assessments-not against violent agitators, but against the civil rights movement’s most ambitious protest yet. The declassified...
Martin Luther King’s Campaign Was a Direct Confrontation With American Poverty
In the months before his assassination, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was preparing for the most ambitious civil disobedience campaign of his life-a mass occupation of Washington, D.C. that would bring thousands of poor Americans to the nation’s doorstep to demand...
FBI Surveillance Targeted Black Student Organizers at Merrimack College
A newly uncovered page from the FBI’s classified files on civil rights surveillance reveals how the Bureau monitored and documented Black student activity at Merrimack College in Massachusetts-part of a broader COINTELPRO-style campaign aimed at suppressing civil...
The CIA Built a Psychological Map for Control of Human Behavior
During the Cold War, the CIA quietly funded a research program that aimed to do far more than study populations-it wanted to shape them. The so-called "narrative" project outlined in this document proposed nothing less than a full-spectrum psychological map of human...
