The FBI recently released its file on deceased Cleveland Browns football legend Jim Brown, revealing that agents monitored Brown’s First Amendment-protected activity as he was funding a film about the black nationalist movement.
The FBI’s illegal surveillance of Brown was part of COINTELPRO—its 1960s-era operation where undercover agents infiltrated and subverted American anti-war and civil-rights organizations. COINTELPRO was exposed by in the 1970s by the Church Committee during its investigation into abuse by the FBI, CIA and other federal agencies.
According to the FBI documents released Friday, the U.S. government was concerned about a film project Brown was helping fund in the late 1960s.
“This movie was made in Cleveland , largely through the influence of Jim Brown, former Cleveland Browns football player and current member of the Negro Industrial Economic Union,” an Aug. 1, […]
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