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** COINTELPRO, an FBI task force created in the mid-50s to sabotage and harass "subversive" organizations, including Civil Rights groups, workers' unions, anti-war protests, the Black Panthers, and the KKK. Discontinued in the early 70s, but you'll find plenty of people who say otherwise.
** The Iran-Contra Affair, an elaborate three-way deal between the CIA, Iran, and a band of Nicaraguan rebels. To be brief, the CIA sold weapons to Iran in exchange for cash and hostages, then funneled much of the proceeds into the pockets of the Contras—all well and good, if it weren't illegal.
*** Actually, it was a case of [[Loophole Abuse]]. The law forbade US government funds being appropriated in Congress to aid the Contras. The CIA's response: 'Technically speaking, if Iran wants to send money to the Contras that's not US government funds appropriated by Congress -- even if they are doing it because we're
*** On the other hand, 'accidentally' dropping your records into the paper shredder rather than handing them over to the Congressional oversight committees when requested to ''is'' kinda illegal. Truly it isn't the crime that gets you, but the cover-up.
** And of course the stories of the U.S. government (Specifically the CIA) involvement in the complicit smuggling, and selling of cocaine through third parties, which supplied the drug dealers on the street and which caused the crack epidemic that hit the inner cities hard. Supposedly it helped fund illegal operations elsewhere, like the above Contras.
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