Project RESISTANCE was a domestic espionage operation coordinated under the Domestic Operations Division of the
CIA. Its purpose was to collect background information on groups around the U.S. that the CIA thought posed threats to their facilities and personnel.
From 1967 to 1973, many local police departments, college campus staff members, and other independent informants collaborated with the CIA to keep track of
student radical groups that opposed the U.S. government's foreign policies on Vietnam.
Project RESISTANCE and its twin program,
Project MERRIMAC were both coordinated by the CIA Office of Security. In addition, the twin projects were branch operations that relayed civilian information to their parent program,
Operation CHAOS
Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) domestic espionage project targeting American citizens operating from 1967 to 1974, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded under President Richard Nixon ...
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COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO (a syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and illegal projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltr ...
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CHAOS, MERRIMAC, and RESISTANCE , PDFDevelopment of Surveillance Technology & Risk of Abuse of Economic Information , PDF
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Central Intelligence Agency domestic surveillance operations
Espionage projects
Federal Bureau of Investigation operations
Law enforcement databases in the United States