HIST 166C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cointelpro, Endangerment, California Citizens Redistricting Commission
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Nixon was paranoid about the left and liberals. Seen involved in the liberal rejection of the family assistance plan. Families with no source of outside income to receive /year. Workers would have to take job training and accept any reasonable work offered to them. Uneasy about the plan because they were used to welfare programs coming from their democrat side. Nixon moved to silence the left and antiwar movement. Operation chaos launched by lbj and expanded by nixon. Cia, in violation of charter that prohibited spying within the us, spied on. Fbi spying on antiwar movement through cointelpro (counterintelligence program) antiwar activists. Any organization that the fbi identified as left became a target under this program. Nixon made sure protestors against the war were charged with breaking the law. Charges were usually so phony that judges dismissed them. What this did was tie up antiwar organizations in court and force them to spend money on lawyers.
