There has been some media coverage of the U.S. government’s surveillance of (mostly nonviolent) dissent, resistance and protest. Little attention is given to the historical, covert use of disinformation, infiltration and counterprotestors in the government’s toolbox of techniques aimed at discrediting, and disrupting domestic activists and political groups.

You can be sure that the current regime is working overtime using its own versions of tactics used by Federal agencies in the bad old days (particularly from 1956 and into the 1970s). These tactics include discrediting people through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and violence.

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