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The Credits: 2014 Tribeca Film Festival at a Glance

May 5, 2014 by admin in Press

“Calling themselves ‘The Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI,’ this group of “ordinary Americans” broke into the FBI office on March 8 while the rest of the country was watching the ‘Fight of the Century’ between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. What they discovered would effect the way the country understood government surveillance forever—at the height of the Vietnam war, the FBI was conducting a highly classified civilian surveillance program called COINTELPRO, overseen by J. Edgar Hoover. In our current age of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden, Hamilton’s doc couldn’t be more timely.”
 
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