American law enforcement official who served as the first director of the FBI for 48 years, building it into a powerful domestic intelligence agency while conducting systematic surveillance and disruption of political dissidents through COINTELPRO.
Built the FBI as a modern federal law enforcement institution while simultaneously creating COINTELPRO — a systematic program to infiltrate and destroy civil rights, Black nationalist, and anti-war organizations through surveillance, blackmail, and agent provocateurs.
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