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Exhibit 300

FBI letter to 23 field offices, Black Nationalist-Hate Groups program, as quoted in Church Committee Book III

Exhibit 300 ยท Agency memorandum (quoted)

FBI letter to 23 field offices, Black Nationalist-Hate Groups program, as quoted in Church Committee Book III

to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize the activities of black nationalist, hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen. membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence and civil disorder.

FBI headquarters letter opening the Black Nationalist-Hate Groups COINTELPRO, as quoted by the Church Committee.

Source
Federal Bureau of Investigation (quoted by the Church Committee)
Date
25 August 1967
Quoted from
Book III, COINTELPRO report, Part II.B.5, p. 20 (PDF p. 24); quoting FBI letter of 8/25/67
Grade
Reported
Document
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94755-iii.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Known through the Committee's quotation.

Cited by

Finding DEF-6.1
Primary record The Church Committee found that the FBI ran five COINTELPRO programs from 1956 to 1971 and approved 2,370 actions to "disrupt" and "neutralize" domestic groups and individuals, among them the November 1964 anonymous note to Martin Luther King Jr.