FBI (COINTELPRO)

The FBI conducted a years-long surveillance campaign against John Lennon and tried to deport him for his anti-war activism

Dismissed by — FBI

The FBI ran a covert program to surveil, infiltrate, and disrupt domestic political organizations

The FBI orchestrated the assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, with an informant drugging him before the police raid

Dismissed by — Cook County State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan

The FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. a letter with surveillance recordings, telling him to kill himself within 34 days

Dismissed by — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover