In the 1960s, a strange rumor spread: the government was spying on Americans through a secret program. Most people laughed it off—how could our own government invade our privacy like that? But then, in 1971, a group of activists broke into an FBI office and uncovered COINTELPRO, an illegal spying program so real it shocked the world. Top officials like J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, had denied any wrongdoing, but documents revealed they were targeting civil rights leaders like Martin Luth