Federal Bureau of Investigation AKA FBI

[related: Department of Justice AKA DOJ, J. Edgar Hoover]

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The primary federal law enforcement agency of the United States of America. Although funded in full by American taxpayers, the FBI's jurisdiction traditionally extends far beyond the reach of its parent organization, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The bureau's current form of counterintelligence surveillance was largely established during the Prohibition era under the leadership and direction of J. Edgar Hoover in order to investigate and prosecute prominent "public enemy" era bootleggers, racketeers and bank robbers, including the Dillenger gang, the Bloody Barkers AKA Barkers-Karpis gang, and the Barrow gang (colloquially: Bonnie and Clyde).

In the decades following World War II, the FBI focused increasingly on [perceived] domestic threats related to the ongoing civil rights movement, including a [perceived] rise in communist sympathies amongst the bohemian liberati. These efforts culminated in the formalized activities of COINTELPRO, a multi-faceted wave of surveillance, coercion, infiltration, and systemic persecution, leading both directly and indirectly to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the infiltration and subsequent implosion of the Black Panthers, and the distribution of narcotics in major urban areas such as Los Angeles and New York City. In 1956, COINTELPRO began a multi-decade collusion with the techno-communication behemoth Ma Bell - by the 1960's, the FBI's surveillance operations relied almost entirely on highly illegal wiretapping and eavesdropping practices. Seemingly in exchange, the FBI aggressively targeted various members of the burgeoning phreaking community, including its founder Joybubbles of the Church of the Eternal Childhood.

By the late 1980's, the FBI's corporate collusion extended into the digital realm, forming a veritable panopticon of civilian surveillance. By the 1990's, it began to target the online hacking movement and various rap-adjacent communities - as well as assisting the DOJ in its self-described War on Drugs. Efforts during this time including but were not limited to:

• The armed SWAT raid of Steve Jackson Games under Operation SunDevil, resulting in the arrest and prosecution of Tony the Trashman," "Dr. Ripco," and "Electra”, as well as the seizure of over 100,000 floppy discs.
• The infiltration of the Legion of Doom’s central headquarters in Doom Mountain after the group published a list of demands titled “Luthor’s 95 Theses” on October 14, 19XX.
• The planting of evidence upon American hacker/cryptographer/infosec expert Phiber Optik.
• The entrapment of John DeLorean via a covert sting operation that uncovered his possession of over 60 lbs. of cocaine.
• The dissemination of malware within UseNet forums frequented by hacker collectives such as the Masters of Deception and Konami Dream.
• The [suspected] instigation of the Great Hacker War, causing ideological schisms within over 18 different hacker nations across the US.
• The creation of the world’s largest discrete component-based computer through a confidential partnership with the multinational tech conglomerate IBM.
• The execution of Operation Pipe Dreams, a coordinated nationwide crackdown on illegal drug paraphernalia which yielded only the singular conviction of Paris Chong, son of legendary“Cheech and Chong” actor Tommy Chong.

Despite its mandate to protect the United States of America and uphold her constitution, the FBI often illegally surveils higher profile private citizens, often with questionable right or cause, including:

• Author Studs Terkel: reported communist ties, open criticism of the FBI.
• Author Ernest Hemmingway: reported communist sympathies.
• Doctor Jack Kevorkian: advocacy and involvement with assisted euthanasia.
• Actress Jean Dorothy Seberg: indirect contribution to the Black Panthers.
• Actor Charlie Chaplin: alleged ties to communism, leading him to immigrate.
• Actress Jane Fonda: anti-war activism.
• Artist Andy Warhol: reported associations with underground movements.
• Scientist Albert Einstein: reported communist sympathies.
• Musician John Lennon: involvement with counterculture.
• DJ Terminator X from the musical group Public Enemy: political activism.
• Athlete Muhammad Ali: affiliation with the Nation of Islam.
• Athlete Kareem Abdul Jabbar: affiliation with the Nation of Islam.
• RAMM:ΣLL:ZΣΣ: association with the Five-Percent-Nation and Supreme Mathematics.
• Individual members of the Combahee River Collective.