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COINTELPRO, a Rare card
COINTELPRO was a series of covert projects conducted between 1956 and 1971 by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political parties and organizations that the FBI perceived as subversive.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 87
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 410,000
Power 177 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
COINTELPRO quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the COINTELPRO card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The FBI engaged in covert operations targeting domestic political groups from its ______ years.
Answer
earliest. The FBI engaged in covert operations targeting domestic political groups from its earliest years. From the COINTELPRO article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
François Mitterrand. François Mitterrand 92 · COINTELPRO 87 · Indian Union Muslim League 83 · Battles of Saratoga 80 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Groups and individuals targeted by the FBI included feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti-Vietnam War organizers, activists in the civil rights and Black power movements, student organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the American Indian Movement, Chicano and Mexican-American groups like the Brown Berets and the…
- Although the program primarily focused on organizations that were part of the broader New Left, they also targeted white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party.
- The FBI engaged in covert operations targeting domestic political groups from its earliest years.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The COINTELPRO article was read about 410,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 87 and blocks with 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get COINTELPRO
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, COINTELPRO (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Richard W. Held, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
