This roundtable revisits COINTELPRO, the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program, on the the 50th anniversary of its public exposure. In December of 1973 NBC Reporter Carl Stern revealed COINTELPRO to the nation. His reporting revealed, in part, that the FBI had a Counter-Intelligence Program code name COINTELPRO: a series of covert action programs directed against American citizens. The operations went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret actions designed to disrupt, neutralize, and discredit individuals and groups such as Angela Davis, the "New Left," the Communist Party USA, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Panthers. Officially from 1956 to 1971 the FBI , lead by J. Edgar Hoover, carried out a sophisticated operation aimed at preventing the exercise of First Amendment rights of speech and association. The FBI used extra-judicial techniques ranging from technical surveillance to quotidian mechanisms such as tearing apart marriages, forged propaganda, anonymous poison-pen letters, encouraging gang warfare, and falsely labeling individuals as informants, all to prevent the proliferation of protest and certain ideologies and the growth of certain groups. The Bureau did this in the name of national security and to preserve Hoover's America. The roundtable will examine COINTELPRO, what the past 50 years has revealed about the program, and what it might reveal about the FBI and America: past, present, and future.