Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P53 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 508 COINTELPRO reimburse a policyholder is a fixed percentage usually 80 percent of the approved charges the amount of a submitted bill which the insurer considers reasonable and will reimburse after the policyholder has paid the deductible which is usually the first 100 of medical expenses. The insured becomes a coinsurer for the remaining 20 percent of the approved charges as well as for the amount by which the individual medical bills exceed the approved charges. COINTELPRO Between 1956 and 1971 the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI conducted a campaign of domestic counterintelligence. The agency s Domestic Intelligence Division did more than simply spy on . citizens and their organizations its ultimate goal was to disrupt discredit and destroy certain political groups. The division s operations were formally known within the bureau as COINTELPRO the Counterintelligence Program . The brainchild of former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover the first COINTELPRO campaign targeted the . Communist party in the mid-1950s. More organizations came under attack in the 1960s. FBI agents worked to subvert civil rights groups radical organizations and white supremacists. COIN-TELPRO existed primarily because of Director Hoover s extreme politics and ended only when he feared its exposure by his critics. A public uproar followed revelations in the news media in the early 1970s and congressional hearings criticized COINTELPRO campaigns in 1976. In 1956 Hoover interpreted a recent federal law the Communist Control Act of 1954 50 . 841 as providing the general authority for a covert campaign against the . Communist party. Officially the law stripped the party of the rights privileges and immunities attendant upon legal bodies created under the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States. Hoover saw the party as a peril to national security and ordered a large-scale effort to infiltrate and destabilize it. Employing classic espionage techniques FBI agents joined .
