PRISACTS
PRISACTS (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Prison Activists Surveillance Program) was a covert project of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting political activity within the United States prison system. History Although PRISACTS was officially launched in 1974, it belonged to a continuity of FBI programs focused on monitoring and eliminating political activities deemed subversive, especially those that embraced leftist political objectives such as economic redistribution, an end to war, racial justice, and gender equality. PRISACTS was an outgrowth of the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program, code named COINTELPRO, a series of Covert operation, covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971. Through COINTELPRO, the FBI targeted activists and organizations perceived as subversive through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting fals ...
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