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Re:FBI Tracked an Activist as They Travelled Across the U.S.... by mark_edward on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:52PM (#16625647)
I agree with you, but wanted to make a correction. MKULTRA was the batshit scheme to hypnotize and mind control people where they dosed people with LSD. You're probably thinking of COINTELPRO, the FBI program of activist and political suppression.

And none of these people or institutions were meaningfully punished or even paid in any way, so I don't see much reason to think they've changed. Just takes time for this stuff to come out. Even local cops use infiltrators on the most harmless of movements. I was attending the university at this time and this was a huge scandal:

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/2013/03/01/undercover-ucpd-det...

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Re:FBI Tracked an Activist as They Travelled Across the U.S.... by edsu on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @06:53AM (#16627384)
At least today we have the investigative reporting from the Intercept. It's kind of crazy the lengths to which citizens had to go through to get the word out about COINTELPRO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Invest...
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