[red-iron-pine]

CONINTELPRO was FBI and was based on domestic surveillance against real and perceived communist influence. It did indeed have significant funding and push behind it.

90% of what they did was aggressive and likely unconstitutional, but make no mistake there were absolutely agitators in the US being pushed by the USSR -- and which date back to the original "Active Measures" pushed by the USSR.

[etc-hosts]

Main funder of the US Communist Party during the COINTELPRO era was... surprise.. the FBI, they wanted to use the CP to keep tabs on possible spying or agitation efforts by Soviet Union's in the US.

[lazide]

squints and this makes it not a conspiracy…. How?

Especially since evidence was only discovered because of a random copy of documents they forgot to shred, but did shred all the rest of them.