STATUS: Mostly incomplete.
Chapter 5 -- Surveil Ordinary Citizens

    People need to watch what they say, watch what they do.

        Ari Fleischer; former White House Press Secretary, 2001

    I warn every animal on this farm to keep his eyes very wide open.

        Squealer,
        in George Orwell's Animal Farm

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Dictatorships use citizen surveillance in a clear way: to blackmail and coerce the people, especially critics. In the 1960s and 1970s. Edgar Hoover's FBI amassed files on the private lives of political, union, Civil Rights, anti-war, and other leaders, and blackmailed or harassed them. The FBI's Counter Intelligence Programs (COINTELPRO) actions against civil rights workers and the left in the 1960s included planting fake evidence on them, sending bogus letters accusing them of adultery to ruin their marriages (one fake letter called Dr. King an "evil, immoral beast" and suggested he kill himself), disclosing activists' sexually transmitted diseases, tapping their phones, getting activists fired from their jobs, distributing false articles that portrayed them as drug abusers, and planting negative articles about them in newspapers.[8]

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