Category: Counterculture

• The COINTELPRO Infiltration

  A late-1960s and post-Watergate theory holding that the FBI's domestic counterintelligence machinery penetrated the rock industry so deeply that nearly every major band contained at least one informant or controlled participant. The theory grew from real government surveillance of musicians, antiwar activists, promoters, and youth culture circles, and then expanded that documented monitoring into a broader claim that the live music scene itself functioned as a managed intelligence environment.