The organized suppression of political movements through infiltration, surveillance, disinformation, legal harassment, and violence. This topic area covers both the specific programs (like COINTELPRO) and the general tactics (snitch-jacketing, counterinsurgency, surveillance) that states use against movements for liberation.
Related texts in this library: Copjacketing and the Manufacture of Suspicion, Describing the Lineage of Evidentiary Structuration of State Repression Technologies.
Related events: Church Committee (1975), COINTELPRO begins (1956).